This is one of many inventions that went further than it should have. It's supposed to be the "ice cream scoop," which already has local names but not one of general use and specific meaning for the tool that has been around since the late 19th century. There are rehearsed Latin and even Greek etymologies, but it is most likely a hoax, perhaps a hapax of some idiolect that was published on Wikipedia only in 2008 and that more than one person took seriously. See also 10060; suanfazon , migrant , opacarophilia , hippotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia .
