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DEFINITION: n. A person who lives in their car because they have lost their home. v. To live in your car.
Verboticisms
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Fordablehousing
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ford abel how zing
Sentence: After losing his job and home, Randy moved the family into his Focus, so that they would have fordablehousing.
Etymology: Affordable housing (low cost dwelling) & Ford(automobile brand)
Carpartment
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: car-part-ment
Sentence: Sam Snickerly, would have gotten a larger automobile had he known it was going to be a carpartment for his entire family.
Etymology: Car- An automobile. Apartment-A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.
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COMMENTS:
:)Thanks you all! I need to show up more often with my right brain. - abrakadeborah, 2012-01-31: 00:46:00
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Interstateless
Created by: feltcap
Pronunciation: ɪntərˈsteɪtlɛs
Sentence: After his father walked in on a rather intimate moment he was sharing with his mother they had been interstateless.
Etymology: interstate - a highway serving two or more states, stateless - lacking nationality or without nationality or citizenship
Wreckhomer
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation: wreck homer
Sentence: when she found out he brought this homewrecker in to their home she through him out and he became a wreckhomer
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
nice! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-17: 06:53:00
Clever switcheroo! Super Duper word, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:34:00
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Kuruminase
Created by: hellohime
Pronunciation: Koo-Loo-Mi-Na-say
Sentence: After being kicked out on the street, with nothing but his car and bag of clothes, he found himself in a very kuruminase situation.
Etymology: Stemming from the japanese word for Car (kurumi), transliterated as "Car-Living-Person" meaning a person who uses their car as a place of residence.
Carttage
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: caw taj - homophone with cottage
Sentence: Unfortunately they eventually lost their home and took up residence in their car. It would be temporary. When not downtown working, they returned up north to their carttage. As time went by, their carttage became their “home a way from home”.
Etymology: carttage and carttager. From "cottage" and "car".
Peregretter
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: pair-re-GRETTER
Sentence: Mad Shirley just seemed to suck at life. Talked into refinancing her adobe abode by a mortgage huckster, she became an involuntary terrestrial- an itinerant grinch dwelling in her wagonocturne and taking rapid sponge baths in fast-food joints. A 21st century PEREGRETTER, Shirley and her loyal feline sidekick knew every bleak parking lot and all-nite diner where a rolling stone might catch a few furtive winks before being hustled on by the local brain police. Still, life was good and she was thankful for the warm rising of the sun and the maintenance of the public parks. Mad Shirley was grateful when Mister America walked on by...without tapping on her windshield. A home on four rubber donuts was still a home. As the last snowflakes of winter fluttered down, she stroked her cat and vowed to make life better...
Etymology: PEREgrine+reGRETTER=PEREGRETTER........PEREGRINE:having a tendency to wander;Middle French peregrin, from Medieval Latin peregrinus, from Latin, foreign .....REGRET:to mourn the loss or death of,to miss very much,to be very sorry for;Middle English regretten, from Anglo-French regreter, from re- + -greter (perhaps of Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse grāta to weep)
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COMMENTS:
Terrestrial-of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants ;Middle English, from Latin terrestris, from terra earth.....Itinerant-traveling from place to place;Late Latin itinerant-, itinerans, present participle of itinerari to journey.....Wagon-a usually four-wheeled vehicle for transporting bulky commodities or people and drawn originally by animals;Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch.....Nocturne-a work of art dealing with evening or night;French, adjective, nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 18:55:00
Yeah....We're back. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:06:00
The mighty Susquehanna was frightening-a mighty river, not an insipid stream, manageable and tame. The multitudes had followed it's course...to freedom and adventure. And now it carried it's burden of ice and sorrow down to the Chesapeake Bay- unstoppable and unknowable forever. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:33:00
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Villahicle
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vee la hik el
Sentence: Summers down by the lake, winters in trailer parks...waking up miles away from where you went to bed, that's the life. Our villahicle is the true meaning of detached housing. We are upwardly mobile...well, mobile, anyway!
Etymology: Villa (suburban detached domicile) & Vehicle (mode of transport)
Dodgelodge
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: doj-loj
Sentence: Well children, the GFC has ruined us. The bank has foreclosed and next week the repo men will no doubt arrive to take away the furniture and the next we'll be dodgelodging.
Etymology: Dodge (motor vehicle manufacturer) + lodge (n. cabin or v. reside)
Dwellonwheels
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: DWELL on WHEELS
Sentence: When I was younger, I was hellonwheels, riding around on my Harley. But now I've been reduced to dwellonwheels because I am living in my car.
Etymology: Play on HELL ON WHEELS and made up from DWELL and WHEELS
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COMMENTS:
Puntastic! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:32:00
This just make me giggle. Nice Job! - Ismelstar, 2009-02-18: 19:55:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by mweinmann. Thank you mweinmann. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by mweinmann. Thank you mweinmann. ~ James
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