Verboticism: Incophalangist

'Ewhh! You're eating chocolate-covered ants with a knife and fork!?'

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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Implementill

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: im plem ent ill

Sentence: George's insistance on eating all his foods with a knife, spoon and/or fork was considered instrumentill by his friends. His phobia about not touching his food was especially painful to watch when he ate popcorn, chocolate bars and mixed nuts.

Etymology: Implement (utensil,piece of equipment used as a means to an effect)&Ill (sick;not well;unfavourable;with disapproval) - WordPlay on instrumental (serving or acting as a means or aid)

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Phalangaphobicmangia

Created by: systemax57

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Utenzealot

Created by: emdeejay

Pronunciation: You tense a lot ?

Sentence: Barry would fall into almost rapturous convulsions when he saw someone eating food with their hands and (gasp) not on a plate. I believed blindly in the superiority of cutlery in not just a hygienic sense, but a moral one too. Anxiety over not having appropriate implements forced him to keep an emergency eating kit in his glove compartment. He was quite the utenzealot.

Etymology: Utensil, Zealot

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Fiddledfoodphobia

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: fid/dled/food/pho/bia

Sentence: Amy's two afflictions, repulskin and fiddledfoodphobia drove her boyfirend crazy. She couldn't eat at a restaurant unless she visited the kitchen to ensure all the cooks were wearing rubber gloves.

Etymology: fiddled with + food + phobia

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Silverwaristocrat

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: sil ver wayr ISS toe crat

Sentence: He was a silverwaristocrat like his father before him. Not only was he born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he insisted on being fed with it as soon as he was offered solid food. His first sentence was, "Eww, no touch my food!"

Etymology: silverware + aristocrat

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COMMENTS:

Unforkettable! - Nosila, 2010-02-04: 23:54:00

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Anasocialism

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ænəˈsoʊʃḷˌzṃ/

Sentence: Etymologically, "anasocialism" refers to any social norm or etiquette used in the wrong situation, but it is strongly associated the Society for Creative Anasocialism, and so it is rarely used to describe anything but the use of high-class table manners for eating low-class food.

Etymology: ana- + social + -ism

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Germowary

Created by: FayeWord

Pronunciation: jerm-o-wear-y

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Iltactillian

Created by: dogran

Pronunciation: IL-TACT-Il-IAN

Sentence: See Fred over there, He's Iltactillian, very unfortunate for his wife.

Etymology: tactile-touch + negative prefix + suffix

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Finigast

Created by: Nonverbal

Pronunciation: fini gast

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Etymology: finicky gastronome

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Fretiquette

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: fret ik eht

Sentence: His fretiquette derived from a summer camp where as a child he saw a cook with the personal hygiene of an epidemic.

Etymology: fret etiquette

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