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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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Clingo
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: klin-go
Sentence: He obviously couldn't feel the icing solidifying and cracking on his face, so Sue tried using clingo and tidbidioms to alert him to his plight.
Etymology: cling, lingo
Elimaphore
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (n., v. intr.) ĭ-lĭm''ə-fōr'
Sentence: Megan used elimapore to indicate the cheesecake blot on her boss's lips, but he only thought she was coming on to him.
Etymology: elim[inate] + semaphore
Crumaphore
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌməˌfɔɹ/
Sentence: My crumaphore skills were rusty, and I wasn't quite sure if my girlfriend was signaling that I had a bit of sauce just below and to the left of my left nostril or if I had a pickle wedged in my ear.
Etymology: from crumb + semaphore
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COMMENTS:
Man, I hate when I get ear pickles. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-01: 16:23:00
What?! Speak up! I can't hear you because there's a pickle in my ear! - ErWenn, 2007-11-01: 22:56:00
Classic! - Tigger, 2007-11-06: 17:13:00
I think having a pickle wedged in your ear should be a verbotomy definition.... - yellowbird, 2007-11-08: 14:48:00
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Gestrickle
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Jes-trik-ul
Sentence: Hoping to silently alert Phil to the jelly around his mouth from the doughnut Mildred gave him a quick gestrickle.
Etymology: Gesture + trickle
Gesticulcake
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: jest/ik/ul/cake
Sentence: I licked off all my lipstick trying to get rid of an unidentifiable crumb only to discover that it was the person behind me who my friend was gesticulcaking at.
Etymology: gesticulate + cake
Facefoodgesting
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation:
Sentence: sarah tried facefoodgesting tom, but he had no clue.
Etymology:
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
Forcelshint
Created by: loosepiece
Pronunciation: FOR-sell-shint
Sentence: Marjory always found social occasions with Gerry to be stressful. His table manners were terrible and his enduring habit of troughing his food ensured that Marjory felt compelled to forcelshint at him for the rest of the evening. Gerry however always seemed blind to Marjory's panic, and was happy to remain at the bottom of the social ladder. Perhaps if he understood the delicate nature of the forcelshint, they would be accepted into the social circles Marjory dreamed of.
Etymology: this is derived from when a person with a morsel on the face, needs a silent hint to remove it. forcel - Morsel, face. shint - silent, hint.
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
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)
Comments:
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Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James