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The act for a literature student to commit blasphemous grammatical and spelling errors beyond the realms of the imaginable.
"she leaves so far" nathanism for "she lives so far"
"I'm know visiting" nathanism for "I'm now visiting"
"where family!" nathanism for "we're family!"
"I'll try and see her Wensday" nathanism for "I'll try and see her Wednesday"
"could you pass me the flower to make the cake?" (needs no explanation)
by L'ecuyer de Godefroy October 24, 2011
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Doing/saying something socially awkward or outwardly obvious to fill silence.
In queue at a cotton candy stand, a knabism would be to ask the people in the queue in front of you: "are you buying cotton candy"

In a high-school literature class, after having studied the Grimm brothers, a knabism would be to ask if the Grimm brothers wrote Shrek.
by L'ecuyer de Godefroy October 24, 2011
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