Verboticism: Flouradentachitis
DEFINITION: n. The bits of food, and other debris, that get stuck between your teeth. v. To smile brightly and proudly unaware that you have a big piece of food stuck in your teeth.
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Comandible
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Cuh-Man-duh-bul
Sentence: We were horrified to see the comandibles of goat stomach and monkey intestines trickle off his teeth every few minutes.
Etymology: Comestible (item of food) + mandible (bone used primarily for eating)
Morselaze
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mor sell ayz
Sentence: Pierre was a handsome boy, except for one really bad personal habit. He was too lazy to check his front teeth during the day to see the food items lodged there after each meal. This morselaze gave him a new title (behind his back)...he was called Leader of the Plaque!
Etymology: Morsel (a small amount of solid food; a mouthfu) & Laze (be idle; exist in a changeless situation) & sounds like La Marseillaise (French National Anthem)
Morselcode
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: mor-sell-cohd
Sentence: she claimed she was dieting but her morselcode said chocolate
Etymology: morsel- small scrap of food code- a mesage that can be interpreted by the few afficinados
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COMMENTS:
excellent! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-24: 04:21:00
very clever - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-24: 12:23:00
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Evidents
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: evv i dense
Sentence: I could tell from the evidents that ribs were on the canteen lunch menu again this week.
Etymology: evidence. dents as in dental.
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COMMENTS:
Hopefully no one was wearing evidentures, because that would be even messier. - wordmeister, 2007-05-24: 10:30:00
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Partickles
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: part-ick-kles
Sentence: Even though Inspector 34 enjoyed his date with the Metermaid, the partickles in her teeth made her disturbingly imperfect.
Etymology: food particles + ick
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COMMENTS:
I'd find all that giggling from the tickles on her gums disturbing too. - petaj, 2007-05-24: 06:21:00
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Dentritis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: det/tree/eye/tus
Sentence: His none use of dental floss lead to dentritis, random food debris trapped between his teeth.
Etymology: dental + debris + itis
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COMMENTS:
Fantastic! - ErWenn, 2007-05-24: 20:12:00
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Dentritus
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: den try tus
Sentence: Andrew's eating habits were so disgusting, that he usually had to dine alone. He ate messily and loudly and you could guess what menu he had by all the dentritus left behind. His friends nicknamed him "Leader of the Plaque".
Etymology: Dental (of the teeth) & Detritus (the remains of something, refuse)
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COMMENTS:
So good I might as well vote for it now. :) - Discoveria, 2012-09-20: 04:24:00
Ooo, I should have read today's words before making mine. Interestingly, they are all very similar. - Rhyme79, 2012-09-20: 10:53:00
Cheers...like both your words, too! - Nosila, 2012-09-21: 01:19:00
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Detrotus
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: debt-rot-us
Sentence: Phil McCavity's dentistry had a client list a mile long. It was located in a part of town that had never heard of dental floss and whose citizens' mouths were full of detrotus.
Etymology: detritus (crap, debris, dregs, dross, bits) + rot (decay) + us (that's his teeth talking)
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! - Clayton, 2007-05-24: 07:17:00
Phil McCavity - very funny!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-24: 12:31:00
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Toothstick
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: tooth/stik
Sentence: For some reason all the ladies in Josh's "Be a Vegan, Save a Cow" cooking class were not finding him as charming as they usually did. Not only were they no longer laughing at his jokes tonight, but some were giving him nasty looks from across the room. Unbeknownst to him he had a few toothsticks from the scarf-fest earlier at McDonald's. Yes, it was obvious to the women that he had been charming for weeks that he was NOT the vegetarian he claimed to be!
Etymology: Derived from toothpick: A small stick of wood, plastic, metal or other substance used to remove food from the teeth, usually after a meal. A toothSTICK is when a meal hangs around for an encore. :)
