Masticate

Word of the Day Saturday, March 06, 2010

masticate

\MAS-tih-kayt\ , transitive verb;

1. To grind or crush with or as if with the teeth in preparation for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, "to masticate food."
2. To crush or knead (rubber, for example) into a pulp.

intransitive verb:
1. To chew food.

She covered her mouth full of braces and giggled into her hand.

"Isn't that just the dirtiest sounding word ever?!?" she asked incredulously. Jody continued to giggle.

"I mean, people masticate at meetings all the time, right in front of each other. We masticated at the mall today!"

"Me and Joe masticated together in the back of Baskins Robbins the other night," Jody piped up dissolving into giggles again.

"Sometimes," Anna said, clearly just warming up, "I get a really large bowl of ice cream and just got at it and masticate like there is no tomorrow. And just when I don't think I could masticate anymore, I get a second masticating wind. I literally masticate seven or eight times a day."

"Joe and I will go out to dinner and sit across from each other, stare deeply into each others eyes and masticate until they offer us the dessert menu."

"That could be a new pick up line. Not, hey you want to go out to dinner? But, hey do you wan to masticate together tonight?"

"Ha ha! Sometimes, when I don't masticate long enough, I almost choke. Masticating saves lives!"

They both broke down into giggles again.

"That is totally going to be my senior quote this year!"