Verboticism: Silverwhore
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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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.
Squeamdish
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: squeem/dish
Sentence: A squeamdish person will always use utensils while preparing or eating food. People who criticize this eating disorder are know as dishrags.
Etymology: squeamish + dish
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COMMENTS:
Your squeamdish person sounds like they might need utensive care. Excellent word! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-09: 09:59:00
Beware of dishrags: they'll "knife" you! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-09: 18:35:00
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Mannanipulate
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: ma-nuh-nip-yuh layt
Sentence: Bill was mannanipulative with his food. He was utensilly compulsive and needed to have his food on a plate with dividers so his different foods couldn't come into contact with each other.
Etymology: manna + manipulate
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COMMENTS:
so if he ate a banana he would be bananamannanipulative - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 15:12:00
Apart from being "utensilly," Bill seems to be a bit ueightsilly! Nice blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-09: 18:34:00
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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
Silverwaristocrat
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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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
Cutlerextremist
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kut ler ex tree mist
Sentence: Freddy was a cutlerextremist. He never used his fingers but only used cutlery to eat all his food. Mona his girlfriend could put up with a lot, but she drew the line when he brought his silverware to eat popcorn at the movie house!
Etymology: Cutlery (silverware, eating utensils) & Extremist (a person who holds extreme views)
Forkitude
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: fawrk-ih-tood
Sentence: Despite all the gawking and weird looks she ate her 3 scoop ice cream cone with confident forkitude and unwavering courage.
Etymology: fork + fortitude
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 16:16:00
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Silverwary
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: sil-ver-wair-ee
Sentence: i knew when he brought a knife and fork to pizza hut that he must be quite silverwary
Etymology: silverware, wary
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COMMENTS:
I especially like this one because in a way, it's similar to mine (cutleery). - Osomatic, 2007-10-09: 14:23:00
Sounds like he's a bit of silvertail to me! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-09: 18:38:00
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Handsfreater
Created by: ajnemajrje
Pronunciation: Hands-Free-Ter
Sentence: I never knew John was a Handsfreater until i saw him eat a choclate bar with a knife and fork.
Etymology: Contraction of Hands Free Eater
