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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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Hintism

Created by: Evilshadow

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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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Muguendo

Created by: cmseth

Pronunciation: mug-you-endo

Sentence: When Bob drooled frosting on his face while gazing at Carol, Ted used subtle muguendo to clue him in before his wife Alice noticed.

Etymology: mug = face and uendo = innuendo, or hint

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COMMENTS:

Can also be used in verb form, as in "Alice muguendoed, but Bob was oblivious to her facial contortions." - cmseth, 2007-11-01: 21:27:00

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Particlepantomime

Created by: svnfsvn

Pronunciation: particle pant imime

Sentence: particlepantimime did the trick,no one else noticed his face at the wine tastingparty.

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Forcelshint

loosepiece

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.

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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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Mongualed

Created by: Lyokia

Pronunciation: Mon-gualed

Sentence: She just mongualed the messy eater in the room.

Etymology: From Motion, tongue and signal.

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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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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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Messonthefaceonize

Created by: pictionairhead

Pronunciation: mess-on-the-face-on-ize

Sentence: yo,(messonthefaceonize)!

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