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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.
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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
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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Antipithy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: an tip pith ee
Sentence: Olive may have found him peachy, but the touch of his fuzz filled her with antipithy
Etymology: antipathy, pith
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COMMENTS:
:) - Nosila, 2011-06-20: 18:37:00
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Fearomembrane
Created by: aigle101
Pronunciation: fear-o-membrane
Sentence: noun;fear of any outer skin(membrane) whether refering to fruit ,vegetable or animal etc...;
Etymology: fear and membrane (outer skin or fur)
Dermaffright
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: der-ma-fright
Sentence: When she was a small child, Sue had a dermaffright when a clown slipped on a banana peel in front of her at the circus. Her brother, always looking for an opportunity to torment his little sister, would chase her around the house with banana skins, orange skins or anything else that came from a fruit or vegetable. After several years of therapy she came to the conclusion that it was the clown she was afraid of, not the skin, and now she can enjoy fruit again, although not bananas yet because she developed a fear of monkeys after seeing a Discovery Channel special.
Etymology: derma: skin (greek-dermis) + affright: sudden terror
Noskinonmynose
Created by: brimuth
Pronunciation: nos-kinon-mainoze
Sentence: When I eat, noskinonmynnose kicks in to effect immediately.
Etymology:
Dermaphobic
Created by: gspadoni
Pronunciation: dur'mi'fob
Sentence: As a card-carrying dermaphobe, Alicia had mastered the ability to peel an apple skin in one long, continuous spiral.
Etymology: Derived from the late Latin epidermis (epi=outer layer; dermis=skin) + Latin phobus (phobus=fear)
Neurosiderm
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: noo-roh-sih-durm
Sentence: Elodie's neurosiderm centered around eating pears. She'll never get over the time she ate one right before she presented at work in front of her team and bits of pear skin stuck to the roof of her mouth and on to her front teeth.
Etymology: neurosis + derma
Skinsternation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: skin-ster-ney-shuhn
Sentence: Thelma was almost paralyzed with severe skinsternation anytime she was faced with the prospect of eating the skin of any produce or animal, fearing that it would block up or otherwise harm her digestive system.
Etymology: Blend of 'skin' and 'consternation ( A state of paralyzing dismay)
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COMMENTS:
good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-09: 07:03:00
Great! great word! - vmalcolm, 2008-09-09: 07:34:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James