Verboticism: Junkture

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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Injuritos

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: injərdərētōs

Sentence: If I didn't know better i would think Matt was something of a masochist. Every time I see him he is munching on a bag of Injuritos. The full-size chips are bad enough but the shards in the bottom of the bag might as well be chunks of glass. The insidious part is that the company that makes these "shivs in a sack" has added an ingredient called nacho that numbs the palate so that the damage is hardly noticed.

Etymology: injured (harmed, damaged, or impaired) + Doritos (a popular brand of chips)

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COMMENTS:

nice one! - galwaywegian, 2008-10-23: 10:04:00

fantastic - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-23: 10:51:00

Damned clever! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-23: 17:14:00

Splendido! - Nosila, 2008-10-23: 20:35:00

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Fritoflay

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: frētōflā

Sentence: The public speaking teacher has heard almost every excuse possible, from family deaths to computer disasters. The latest is known as the Fritoflay syndrome, characterized by a lacerated tongue, cheeks and palate. The teacher does not allow this as a legitimate reason to delay a student’s speech unless they can prove it was not self-inflicted.

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) + flay (peel the skin off)

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Pretzelpuncture

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Pret + zel + punct + sure

Sentence: Absentmindedly gobbling his pretzel snack, the sharp pain in the roof of his mouth told Delbert that he'd just given himself a pretzelpuncture.

Etymology: Pretzel + puncture

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COMMENTS:

I know from experience that this can and does happen. - Mustang, 2007-11-27: 03:58:00

Watch out that it doesn't develop into a chewma (chew + trauma + tumour) - petaj, 2007-11-27: 07:05:00

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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)

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Pretzelaceration

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: pretzl-lass-er-AY-shun

Sentence: As was so often the case, Winifred suffered a serious pretzelaceration in the roof of her mouth from carelessly eating pretzel sticks too fast.

Etymology: Blend of pretzel and laceration

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COMMENTS:

great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-23: 10:51:00

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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)

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