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'Why do you keep making those stupid faces?'

DEFINITION: v. intr., To silently signal the position of a piece of food on a person's face using hand gestures, facial expressions and tonguing motions. n., A nonverbal communication system used to alert and assist diners with food on their faces.

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Cuisign

Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: kwi-sahyn

Sentence: Bill tactfully tried using cuisign language to signal to his date that she had a bit of green beans stuck between her front teeth.

Etymology: Cuisine: Latin; coquīna + Sign: Latin; signum

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Facesavory

Created by: Domhain

Pronunciation: face-savory

Sentence: Exhibiting top notch facesavory, Linda saved Jim from an embarrassing moment before his other coworkers noticed that he had delicious frosting all over his soul patch.

Etymology: Face - front of human head Savory - delicious food

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Chowrade

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Chow+rade

Sentence: When Bob started to grubspeckulate, Roxie thought that he had a fishbone stuck in his throat. But Bob's gesticulation was just a chowrade to tell her she had some anchovy on her face.

Etymology: Chowrade (chow (food) & charade

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Caratitas

Created by: aiiden

Pronunciation: car-ra-tee-tas

Sentence: Susan mad caratitas to Sam when she noticed the blue icing hanging from his nostrils.

Etymology: Cara=(spanish for face) titas =(no idea, but if your mexican, you'll understand)

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Foodscopism

Created by: Garry

Pronunciation: "Food" "Scope" "Izz-um"

Sentence: "My wife used foodscopism as we sat in Mcdonalds eating fries with lots of ketchup on them."

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Dribblelert

Created by: thebaron

Pronunciation: drib-ble-lert

Sentence: Claire sent a well executed dribblelert to Tony about the sauce on his face.

Etymology: dribble& lert (alert)

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Telemorsenate

Created by: Cheeser

Pronunciation: tele-morse-en-ate

Sentence: I tried to telemorsenate him prior to him entering the interview, but alas, the directors were to be treated to a visual remnant of his cornflakes.

Etymology: tele - from afar morse - morsel

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Orthocue

Created by: Kevcom

Pronunciation: aor-tho-ku

Sentence: "She opened her lips and I thought she was going to kiss me! Instead she was moving her toung side-to-side in a delibarate act of orthocuation because I had food on my cheeks. Perhaps after my face was clean, she would kiss me."

Etymology: ortho (mouth) + cue (gesture)

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Souperpoke

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: super-poke

Sentence: Despite her expansive souperpokes Manny persisted conversing with the dribble of pumpkin soup glistening in his beard.

Etymology: soup + poke + superpoke (Facebook users know about this)

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Digesticulate

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: die jest ick ewe late

Sentence: He mistook her digesticulations for a desire to lick his face. Why he should have acted on instinct at this point, when he had never had a trustworthy hunch in his life was extraordinary, but not nearly as extraordinary as the ensuing violence.

Etymology: digest, gesticulate, as in gesticulate to someone that they should digest the food they're wearing.

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-11-01: 02:30:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James'

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-11-01: 02:49:00
Don't forget to add your thoughts to the Verbotomy Birthday Blog. Go to http://www.verbotomy.com/blog. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2014-04-22: 00:03:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James