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DEFINITION: v., To drop food on the floor, then pick it up and eat it, before anyone else can say "it's too dirty". n., A tasty treat which has been accidentally dropped, then quickly salvaged and savored.
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Oopsosalivate
Created by: wjames
Pronunciation: oops-o-sal-i-vate
Sentence: mothers, tired of their children dropping food on the floor, soon encourage their children to oopsosalivate... thus bolstering their anti-immune system.
Etymology: oops = accidentally dropped something, salivate = to produce saliva and/or To be full of desire or eagerness for something:
Floorgastrate
Created by: Daneslarue
Pronunciation: Flor-Gas-Trait
Sentence: Oh my gosh! You're floorgastrating that chicken wing!
Etymology: Floor - Location of the food Gastration - Digestion, eating
Smorgasfloorboard
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: smȯr-gəs-flohr-bȯrd
Sentence: As a salesman, Ted practically lives in his car. Breakfast, lunch and often dinner are consumed behind the wheel. Ted is a strong believer in the 5-second (plus) rule. He looks at his car as a smorgasfloorboard.
Etymology: smorgasbord (buffet-style food ) + floorboard (the floor of an automobile )
Dedirt
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: duh-DURT
Sentence: Alex was not about to let the doughnut his clumsy date dropped go to waste, and he gobbled up the dedirt.
Etymology: dessert + dirt
Pizzaramics
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Peetz-uh-RAM-micks
Sentence: Sylvester loved all sorts of gooey things made out of lots of stuff like casseroles, pastas, and stews, so it came as no surprise to anyone that his most favorite thing in the world was to drop five things on the tiled kitchen floor and have a feast of pizzaramic proportions.
Etymology: Pizza: italian pie filled with lots of meaty and cheesy goodies + Ceramics: what tiled floors are often made of.
Snatcho
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Snatch-oh
Sentence: Martin looked on in horror as the martini olive pinged from his cocktail stick and disappeared under the fridge. He made a dash for the fridge door, bending over and swiping his hand underneath it. The manoeuvre managed to snatcho two pieces of Go-Kat biscuit, a crusty malteser and the hairy olive. "Choice!", he thought.
Etymology: Snatch - To take quickly. Nacho - small pieces of fried tortilla
Lamineat
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: lamənēt
Sentence: A true believer in the 5-second rule, Bob is likely to lamineat anything that hits the floor. His mother would fuss at him until she dropped one of her favorite cookies. She practically knocked him into the next room retrieving it.
Etymology: laminate (manufactured by placing layer on layer) + eat (put food into the mouth and chew and swallow it)
Cryptoflooridium
Created by: MadTripper
Pronunciation: krĭp'tō-flōr-rĭd'ē-əm
Sentence: We always thought our dog was great at cleaning up the floor during dinner, however, since our 7 month old son learned to crawl, he has really mastered the art of obtaining cryptoflooridium.
Etymology: Floor Cryptosporidium
Fulkingly
Created by: ambercriss
Pronunciation: Fool-king-le
Sentence: He was fulkingly the floor.
Etymology:
Threesecondfool
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: three-seck-und-fool
Sentence: Jeremy was a threesecondfool who would pounce on dropped food, which somehow gained in attractivenss on its way to the floor. He was also known to try to threesecondfool other people by pretending to just happen upon a recently discarded morsel: "Oh, look! I must have dropped one of my shrimp. Ho ho..it's the three-second rule, you know!"
Etymology: Three-second rule combined with fool, both as a noun (he's a threesecondfool) and a verb (don't try to threesecondfool me!).
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COMMENTS:
Hahahaa. Good one,Astorey. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-30: 14:32:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you again remistram! ~ James
mplsbohemian - 2007-10-11: 22:57:00
There are a LOT of good words today!
Yes lots of floordoeuvres for thought. Tasty too! Even if they are all full of antipastogens. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James