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DEFINITION: n. A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else's butts.
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Debuttal
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: dee-but-al
Sentence: Clarence seemed to think his discarded smokes were magically absorbed by nature and was oblivious to the debuttal efforts of those around him.
Etymology: de: prefix meaning to remove or undo. butt: slang for cigarette al: suffix - having the properties or characteristics
Bioprestidigitation
Created by: hoylus
Pronunciation: bye oh press ti deegee tay schon.
Sentence:
Etymology: prestidigitation is slight of hand as used by magicians, bio suggests natural.
Discigtegration
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: diss-SIG-te-gray-shun
Sentence: It's always amazing to watch the process of discigtegration going on outside bars at about 2:15 AM.
Etymology: disintegration + cigarette
Concigquence
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: con - sig - quence
Sentence: They just don't understand the concigquences
Etymology: consequence + cigarette
Buttodegradable
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: but oh de gray duh bull
Sentence: The median strip at the stop light has the look of a large ash tray, proof of the fallacy of buttodegradability
Etymology: butt = slang for cigarettes + degradability
Combuttstion
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: com-butt-styun
Sentence: When your discarded cigarette ends just suddenly burn themselves away to nothing -- that's called spontaneous combuttsion
Etymology: combustion (burn) + butt (cigarette end)
Buttodegradable
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: butt - oh - dee - graa - d - abel
Sentence: Melissa threws hundreds of butts a week on sidewalks, streets, curbs and driveways; all in the belief that they were buttodegradable. She did not think that she was contributing to the trash heap that is forming beneath and beside us.
Etymology: butt, biodegradable
Disintegrette
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: dis in tuh gret
Sentence: I was going to pick up the cigarette butt that my brother so rudely threw on the carpeted floor, but I was surprised when I saw it disintegrette right before my eyes!
Etymology: disintegrate + cigarette
Marlborogenesis
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: mahrl-bore-oh-GEN-uh-sis
Sentence: Thanks to marlborogenesis, the world is filled with little yellow flowers. I try to do my part.
Etymology: Marlboro + (partheno)genesis
Disinterette
Created by: SkyTheWolf
Pronunciation: /duh sint uh reht/
Sentence: John thought the Disinterette would disappear into the ground as soon as he left.
Etymology: Disinte is short for Disintegrate, and ette is short for ciggerette.
