Food Words That Ought to Exist But Don’t
I recently came across a wonderful collection of “sniglets,” or words that don’t appear in the dictionary, but should. Below are some of my favorite food-related entries from the list. Enjoy them and please let me know if you have any sniglets of your own to share!
Burgacide – n. What you call the desperate action of a hamburger leaping to its death through the holes in the Bar-B-Q grill.
Charp (charp) – n. The green, mutant potato chip found in every bag.
Cheedle (chee’ dul) – n. The residue left on one’s fingertips after consuming a bag of Cheetos.
Choconiverous - adj. Biting off the head of the chocolate Easter bunny first.
Cubelo (kyew’ beh lo) – n. The one cube left by the person too lazy to refill the ice tray.
Facon – n. The fake bacon bits served at cheap salad bars.
Flopcorn (flop’ korn) – n. The unpopped kernels at the bottom of the cooker.
Flosstitution v. Using anything other than the waxed string product , i.e matchbook covers, etc. to clean between your teeth.
Joes of Arc (johz’ uhv ark) – n. Tiny drops of Mr. Coffee that die on the burner after the pot is removed.
Keyfruit (kee’ froot) – n. The one apple, pear, or tomato in the stand that, when removed, causes all the others to tumble forward.
Lactomangulation – n. Manhandling the “open here” spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the “illegal” side.
Mozzalastics (maht suh las’ tiks) – n. Large deposits of cheese that stick to the top of the pizza box.
Musquirt (mus’ kwirt) – n. The water that comes out of the initial squirts of a squeezed mustard bottle.
Mustgo - n. Any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so long it has become a science project.
Pigslice (pig’ slys) – n. The last unclaimed piece of pizza that everyone is secretly dying for.
Pillsburglar (pilz’ berg ler) – n. Person able to sample the icing on a new cake without leaving a fingerprint.
Snacktrek - n. The peculiar habit when searching for a snack of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.
Woowad (wew’ wad) – n. Giant clumps of stuck-together rice served at Chinese restaurants.
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September 17th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
This is hilarious!
September 24th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Thanks for the laugh of the day!