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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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Taytohs
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: Tay-toes
Sentence: In her lust for salty favour she gave herself tayohs.
Etymology: Tayto- the most beloved brand of crispsin my native land. oh -expression of surprise/ pain
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)
Potatoclip
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: poh-tay-toh-clip
Sentence: My mouth had just recovered from a Fritolesion when I suffered a potatoclip. If I didn't stop being an ouchpotato, I'd continue to get these painful foodboos.
Etymology: potato chip, clip (gash)
Barthead
Created by: jeremy21
Pronunciation: /beart-head/
Sentence: That razor point of a chip leads to a barthead.
Etymology: bart head came from blackhead in acne but in your mouth its called a barthead. it is called bart head because it leaves an indenture of bart simpson's head on your toungue .
Pringletingle
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pring ill ting ill
Sentence: Bessie should have known that some foods are just plain dangerous to eat. She always got ice cream headaches and burned tongue from hot liquids and canker sores from excessive candies. Now she could add Pringletingle to her list. Eating the sharp pieces cut through her palate and the abundant salt on them was like,well, rubbing salt on a wound. And since she could not eat just one, the entire tube of them really, really hurt her mouth. "These packages really ought to have health warnings on them like cigarette cartons", she thought to herself. "Mind you", she thought as she lit a menthol cigarette to cool off her sore mouth, "who reads those anyway"??
Etymology: Pringle (Popular Brand of potato chips sold in tall round containers) & Tingle (a prickling somatic sensation; cause a stinging or tingling sensation)
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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Mundopuncture
Created by: rdococ
Pronunciation: mun-doh-puncture
Sentence: Alice had a severe case of mundopuncture after the chips she was eating turned out to be live sleeping lobsters painted yellow, that she just woke.
Etymology: German "mundo" for mouth + "puncture"
Perforateit
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: per-for-ate-it
Sentence: Even though it hurt, Sue perforateit anyway. Just as with the tatoos and piercings she had, Sue found a sensual pleasure from the pain it inflicted. She loved the crunciness of the assalted glass chips and the sweetness of the Iscream with masochistic cherries. Her dentist, though, warned her to stay away from the attack food because it wasn't good for her teeth.
Etymology: perforated: to pierce or bore a hole in something + ate + it
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COMMENTS:
Cute! Sometimes it\'s really a challenge when a word comes around for a second time. - artr, 2010-03-22: 07:16:00
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Fritolaceration
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: frē-tō-lās'ə-rā'shən
Sentence: When Joe suddenly felt a sharp pain and tasted blood in his mouth, he realized he had suffered a fritolaceration while pigging out on tortilla chips, and, needless to say, it ruined his appetite. It wasn't nearly as bad as the time he had pretzelgored himself though.
Etymology: Frito-Lay (formed by the merger of The Frito Company and H.W. Lay & Company, [North American snack food companies] 1961) + laceration - A jagged wound or cut (from Latin, lacerāre - "to tear up")
Potatabrasion
Created by: LotusB
Pronunciation: Po-tay-tah-bray-sion
Sentence: Chowing down heavily on a family size bag of chips, and preoccupied by the awesomely terrible movie on TV, young Jenny must have munched too much - one got her right on the roof of her mouth! That Potatabrasion stayed sore all day! And I'm sure the salt didn't help, either!
Etymology: Potato + Abrasion + Potatabrasion
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by xirtam. Thank you xirtam. ~ James