Verboticism: Chipuncture
DEFINITION: n., A cut, or puncture wound on the roof of the mouth inflicted while consuming dangerously crunchy-sharp foods, like potato chips. v., To cut the roof your mouth while eating extra crispy snack foods.
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Chipcut
Created by: Abraxised
Pronunciation: chip-kut
Sentence: OWW! I just got a chipcut!
Etymology: chip (a crunchy slice of cooked potato) cut (a small wound)
Fritolesion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: free to lays jun
Sentence: When Mimi enjoyed a bag of potato chips, she always ended up with a cut to her upper palate, which pained her. Today's fritolesion was especially stinging and irritating. If anyone had intentionally inflicted this much pain on her, she would have had them charged with a salt and vinegar!
Etymology: Frito-Lay (Frito-Lay North America (FLNA) is a division of PepsiCo, Inc. which manufactures, markets and sells a variety of corn chips, potato chips and other snack foods) & Lesion (any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision)
Fritoslay
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: free-toe-slay
Sentence: It wasn't bad enough that Josh got a severe fritoslay on the side of his lip, but then the salt from the chips he was eating just made matters worse.
Etymology: frito lay - popular chip brand + slay
Alivatar
Created by: simralotomy
Pronunciation: Aliv-va-tar
Sentence: I usually have an alivatar in summer holidays. Eating too many chips can be really painful sometimes
Etymology:
Munchure
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: munk-chur
Sentence: I was munching on a tortilla chip. It was so sharp that it created a munchure wound.
Etymology: A combination of the word Munch (as in snack foods) and Puncture (as in a deep wound or cut)
Junkcutter
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: junk/cut/tur
Sentence: He had to have plastic surgery to replce the roof of his mouth thanks to junkcutters.
Etymology: junk + cut + junketter
Potatoclip
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: poh-tay-toh-clip
Sentence: My mouth had just recovered from a Fritolesion when I suffered a potatoclip. If I didn't stop being an ouchpotato, I'd continue to get these painful foodboos.
Etymology: potato chip, clip (gash)
Grazegraze
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: graysgrays
Sentence: Her grazegraze didn't bleed much, but it did stingle
Etymology: graze as in wound, graze as in eat all day
Crunchpunch
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: krәnch pәnch
Sentence: Eating hot wings for lunch after having a bowl of Cap'n Crunch for breakfast proved to be an exercise in masochism as the hot sauce filled all of the crunchpunches in the roof of my mouth with searing pain.
Etymology: crunch (to chew noisily) + punch (to make a hole into)
Pointidbit
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: poin-tid-bit
Sentence: Kimberly never bought rock candy without buying orajel or anbesol. She knew the sugary pointidbits would scrape their way across the roof of her mouth while she scarfed them down, but the sweet thorsels were too much to resist, so she tried only to alleviate the symptoms rather than prevent them. About the side effect: "Oh, it's the greatest tongue scrapper around" she explained to Zinnia while drooling blood, "it's done wonders for my breath."
Etymology: pointed (has a sharp point) + tidbit (small piece of a food)