Verboticism: Phalangaphobicmangia
DEFINITION: v., To use a knife and fork to eat foods like hamburgers, pizza, or pigeon wings, which are customarily consumed using one's hands. n., A person who is afraid to eat food touched by human hands.
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Cutleridiculous
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kuht-luh-ree-dik-yuh-luhs
Sentence: Hugo has a problem with getting anything on his hands. He washes them at least 10 times a day, more often if he happens to touch something icky. When he eats he becomes cutleridiculous, never allowing any food to touch his hands.
Etymology: cutlery (utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food) ridiculous (stupid, funny)
Toolfool
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: tool fool
Sentence: Ray Rachael was always peeved when Gordon toolfooled everything he ate, even when it was a liquid that should just be sipped
Etymology: tool: utensil + fool (stupid, ignorant)
Digitaintophobia
Created by: tehbeks
Pronunciation: [dɪdɜɪtəntəfoubijə]
Sentence: His digitaintophobia was so bad he would faint at the sight of mixed nuts on a bar.
Etymology: digit-taint-phobia from latin and greek
Hypercutlerize
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: hi per cut ler aiz
Sentence: It was always fun to nudge him because when Doug ate popcorn he tended to hypercutlerize and use a fork.
Etymology: hyper + cutlery
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COMMENTS:
forkenstein - Nosila, 2010-02-04: 23:55:00
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Cutlerivore
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: kut-le-REE-voor
Sentence: When Bob's cobbers saw him hoe into his tucker - a hamburger with the lot -with the silverware, they sat there like stunned mullets. And Roxie gave Doc Howlong a tingle to come and see what was up with Bob. On being told that Bob may have a touch of the barcoo rot, Roxie chucked a wobbly, thinking that Bob was a goner about to tumble off the twig at any tick of the clock. But in the end, it was decided that Bob was simply a cutlerivore, and that Roxie's only real worry would be the "elliot ness".
Etymology: Blend of cutlery & vore: one who will touch and eat food only with cutlery. (not one who eats cutlery: consider philanderer!)
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COMMENTS:
Funny one OZ! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-09: 09:52:00
good one! - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 15:13:00
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Spoonosh
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Spoo-nosh
Sentence: Timothy cast his eye across the back of the packet and down past the ingredients. "Boil-in-the-bag Pizza. Suitable for Spoonoshers"
Etymology: Spoon - Cutlery used to scoop food. Nosh - food (sl.)
Digitrauma
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dijitroumə
Sentence: Wendell suffers digitrauma whenever he imagines people in the restaurant kitchen touching his food. The advertising slogan for KFC gives him a major case of the heebie-jeebies. He can’t even bring himself to say it out loud.
Etymology: digit (a finger) + trauma (a deeply distressing or disturbing experience)
Eferable
Created by: lalaland
Pronunciation: Ee-fear-able
Sentence: Marcus put the hamburger down on the plate with tongs so no one could touch it. Then he took his knife and fork to cut up the hamburger.
Etymology: Greek. Started in the 1900's.