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DEFINITION: n., The fear of eating the skins of fruits, vegetables, or small animals. v., To worry about saving one's skin while chewing on a rind, peel, or pelt.
Verboticisms
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Shunappealing
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: shun a peeling
Sentence: Animal or vegetable, Christine just could not bring herself to consume the epidermis of her convestibles. I mean really! Consider where it has been! She found it very shunappealing.
Etymology: shun - to avoid. unappealing - offputting. peeling - (possibly) discarded skin of fruit/vegetable
Rindossiferous
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Rind-ossifer-ous
Sentence: Betsy worried that her skin would crinkle and crack to the point that she became totally rindossiferous.
Etymology: Rind + ossify
Nonoutskined
Created by: klovezu
Pronunciation: non-out-skin'ed
Sentence: i will not eat that banana peal im a nonoutskined!
Etymology:
Dermadrama
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dir ma dra ma
Sentence: Tanya Hide and Ed P. Durmass were seasoned actors on the highly acclaimed daytime series, "The Young and the Wrinkleless". Ed's character tried to force his victim, Tanya, to eat a banana peel. He knew her dermadrama regarding rinds of fruit would make great tv. She refused and said, "Take your banana and split". To which he replied, "Don't you like it? It has a peel...". Tanya shoved the offending former fruit covering into Ed's mouth and forced it in. He gagged and ran to wash out the bitter taste with some cleansing lather. This is really why their show is called a Soap Opera...
Etymology: Derma (the deep vascular inner layer of the skin) & Drama (turbulent or highly emotional situation;the quality of being arresting or highly emotional)
Dermaghast
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Der-MA-ghast
Sentence: When Bob developed a picaderm for chunks of cobia skin, Roxie chundered cobiaphobically. And, soon, her dermaghast was not confined only to cobia; for she peelreeled at the sight of peaches, shellshaked at the soupcon of shrimp and couldn't shed the dread of dehusking. Dermaghast and despondent, it was clear that she was dermsquirming almost pandermically.
Etymology: 1. Derm: skin & aghast; to fear, dread 2.Cobia (cho-Bi-ah): a tropical food & game food fish. 3.Chunder: (Aust slang): to vomit.
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COMMENTS:
Ah, the classic Verbotomy technique for overcoming Verbotomist's block of flooding your example sentence with an entire suite of related words. - ErWenn, 2007-10-08: 10:58:00
like a dark Dr. Zeus - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-09: 12:12:00
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Dermaphobe
Created by: ajnemajrje
Pronunciation: der-mah-foh-b
Sentence: John has a fear of anything skinlike. He is a classic dermahobe.
Etymology: A play on germaphobe. a person who reacts to anything with a skin as if it is riddled with filth and bacteria.
Circumskin
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Sir-cum-skin
Sentence: Time and time again, Quasimodo had been advised to circumskin the Ugli fruit. Alas, he did not know what 'fruit' meant.
Etymology: circumnavigate - to proceed completely around. Skin - the natural outer layer which covers a person, animal, fruit, etc.
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COMMENTS:
:) - Nosila, 2011-06-20: 18:37:00
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Dermoconservator
Created by: Roosje
Pronunciation:
Sentence: While the fingcutler ate his Peking duck, the dermoconservator started to panic.
Etymology: Dermo = skin conservate = to save
Perhfable
Created by: lalaland
Pronunciation: Peer-fah-ble
Sentence: Angel peeled the skin of the apple for she is very Perhfable.
Etymology: Origin-American. In the 1700's, Perhfable really meant "The fear of eating Fruits and Vegtibles" but in 1924 It changed to mean "The fear of eating the peel or rines of fruits and vegtibles"
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James