avocado hand
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hand injury sustained during the cutting of an avocado, typically an incisional or stab wound of the nondominant hand.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "There has been an apparent increase in avocado related hand injuries. […] The mechanism of injury is usually a stabbing injury to the non-dominant hand as the knife slips past the stone, through the soft avocado fruit. Despite their apparent increased incidence, we could not find any cases in the literature which describe the “avocado hand”. We present a case of a 32-year-old woman who sustained a significant hand injury while preparing an avocado."
Etymology
From avocado + hand. Analogous to earlier-attested terms on the pattern of [role/activity/object] + [body part], such as tennis elbow, bed head, runner's knee, farmer's lung, miner's lung, and woolsorter's disease; newer examples include sex hair, Tetris brain, and avocado hand.