Verboticism: Abomidermy
DEFINITION: n., The fear of eating the skins of fruits, vegetables, or small animals. v., To worry about saving one's skin while chewing on a rind, peel, or pelt.
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Huskfright
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: husk-fry-t
Sentence: Nooooooo, I just can't bear the thought of accidentally getting corn silk in my teeth. It's a bad case of huskfright
Etymology: husk (outer covering) + fright
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COMMENTS:
corny...but cute - Nosila, 2010-02-03: 10:46:00
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Fearomembrane
Created by: aigle101
Pronunciation: fear-o-membrane
Sentence: noun;fear of any outer skin(membrane) whether refering to fruit ,vegetable or animal etc...;
Etymology: fear and membrane (outer skin or fur)
Rindawfulous
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rynd of ful us
Sentence: Jackie lived in morbid fear of accidentally eating part of an apple peel, orange rind or other fruit covering skin. She thought of doing so made her feel rindawfulous.
Etymology: Rind (peel,skin) & Awful (causing fear or dread or terror) & WordPlay on Rhinocerous
Dermaversion
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: 'durm a vur zhun
Sentence: Jenny Dole had long had her serious condition; dermaversion, ever since Bob would force her to eat not only the fruits, but all their skins entirely!
Etymology: derma: skin + aversion: a fear of, scared
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COMMENTS:
THIS DEFINITION WAS A DIFFICULT STRUGGLE CAUSE IT WAS SO MORBID!!:( AND WHO IS VOTING SO MUCH IT'S OFF THE CHARTS
- DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-09: 05:15:00
i'm glad with the voting enthusiasts
- DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-09: 05:37:00
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Abomidermy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: a-bom-uh-DER-mee
Sentence: Bob had created such a long litany of words for his abomidermy, such as eskinchewy, dreaddruff, dermaghast, and sloughthroe etc., that he spent the whole day trying to find ways "to save his own skin."
Etymology: Blend of ABOMINATE: hate, detest, loathe, find repugnant and DERM: (skin). ESKINCHEWY (skin; eschew; chewy.)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-09: 05:59:00
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Pelticant
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: pell tick ant
Sentence: she was a total pelticant and a partial pulpican.
Etymology: pelt I can't
Trepodation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trepädāshən
Sentence: Jan’s mom has some odd ideas about food. Just because she shopped at Whole Foods she thought you had to eat foods ”as is”. Peels, skins, rinds, and pods are not food in Jan’s opinion. It always left her with a sense of trepodation when Mom started to fix a meal. Last night? corn on the cob still in the husk. ”No shucking way”.
Etymology: trepidation (a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen) + pod (an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea)
Revoldermis
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Rev-ol-dur-miss
Sentence: Mary,s mum had always made her eat the skins of her baked potatoes even thogh she couldn't bear them as she found them dry and tasteless. Now that she had left home she no longer had to suffer revoldermis as she took great delight in leaving the skins on the side of her plate without having her mum breathing down her neck.
Etymology: Revolting + Dermis( the thick layer of skin below the epidermis) = Revoldermis
Dermaghast
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Der-MA-ghast
Sentence: When Bob developed a picaderm for chunks of cobia skin, Roxie chundered cobiaphobically. And, soon, her dermaghast was not confined only to cobia; for she peelreeled at the sight of peaches, shellshaked at the soupcon of shrimp and couldn't shed the dread of dehusking. Dermaghast and despondent, it was clear that she was dermsquirming almost pandermically.
Etymology: 1. Derm: skin & aghast; to fear, dread 2.Cobia (cho-Bi-ah): a tropical food & game food fish. 3.Chunder: (Aust slang): to vomit.
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COMMENTS:
Ah, the classic Verbotomy technique for overcoming Verbotomist's block of flooding your example sentence with an entire suite of related words. - ErWenn, 2007-10-08: 10:58:00
like a dark Dr. Zeus - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 12:12:00
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Nonoutskined
Created by: klovezu
Pronunciation: non-out-skin'ed
Sentence: i will not eat that banana peal im a nonoutskined!
Etymology:
