Verboticism: Exocarphobia
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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Skintolerance
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: skinn-TAWL-ur-unse
Sentence: Mina's skintolerance prevented her from eating apples unless they were completely peeled and cored.
Etymology: skin + intolerance
Neurosiderm
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: noo-roh-sih-durm
Sentence: Elodie's neurosiderm centered around eating pears. She'll never get over the time she ate one right before she presented at work in front of her team and bits of pear skin stuck to the roof of her mouth and on to her front teeth.
Etymology: neurosis + derma
Rindsternation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: rynd-styr-NAY-shun
Sentence: Melinda was frozen with rindsternation anytime she was faced with the prospect of eating the skin of any produce or animal, fearing that it would block up or otherwise harm her digestive system yet she couldn't bear throwing them away fearing they could bring some sort of harm to others.
Etymology: Blend of 'skin' (peel or rind) and 'consternation' (amazement or dismay that hinders or throws one into confusion)
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)
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)
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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Rindophobia
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: rind-o-foh-be-a
Sentence: Tim was such a rindophobic that he accused me of being Hannibal Lecter for trying to serve him potato skins.
Etymology: rind + ooohhhhh! + phobia
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COMMENTS:
Straight and clear. I tried the medical approach, but didn't really like the result: "chrotophobia" (chroto-Gk:skin)& "Phloephobia" Phloe-Gk: bark, rind, peel) - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-08: 18:55:00
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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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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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Integumentophobia
Created by: maryamwebster
Pronunciation: integ-u-men-toe-FO-bee-uh
Sentence: "Don't put a whole aardvark Beatrice's plate - she had terrible integumentophobia."
Etymology: Integument, meaning external skin and phobia, meaning fear of.