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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.
Verboticisms
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Marlburrow
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: marl bur roh
Sentence: when the smokers go to sleep, the marlburrow bunny comes out of his marlburrow with his little broom to brush the naughty little butts down to middle earth.
Etymology: marlboro burrow
Disintokration
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: disintōkrāshən
Sentence: Just about every car sold in America is equipped with an ash tray. Many go unused because smokers believe in disintokration, that magic process by which their butts, wrappers and even packaging go up in smoke just like the cigs themselves. A quick flick of the wrist and all responsibility is done.
Etymology: disintegration (the process of coming to pieces) + toke (the drawing of a puff from a cigarette or pipe)
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COMMENTS:
Sadly, too true! Good Word. - Nosila, 2009-08-27: 15:21:00
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Reekology
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: reek-awl-oh-gee
Sentence: As a lifelong smoker, I can attest first-hand to the natural reekology that keeps our waste in harmony with mother Earth.
Etymology: reek = to stink + ecology = study of environmental interaction
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COMMENTS:
An OK word - allwise, 2007-01-25: 02:57:00
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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.
Cigracadabra
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sigrəkədabrə
Sentence: Too many smokers think that some sort of cigracadabra happens when they toss their spent butts to the ground.
Etymology: cigarette (a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking) + abracadabra (a word said by magicians when performing a magic trick)
Buttbustion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: but/bust/shun
Sentence: Buttbustion is the naturally occurring process by which cigarette butts magically disappear down sidewalk cracks
Etymology: butt + combustion
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COMMENTS:
A bit too common for my tastes. - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:47:00
cockup tease is too racy and now buttbustion is too common - can't please everyone protothor - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-25: 18:21:00
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Tobaccorrosion
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Toe-back-co-roe-shun
Sentence: Benson said, "Duh! Everyone knows that cigarette ends tobaccorrode into natural substances. That's why the streets are so clean."
Etymology: Tobacco+corrosion. Tobacco: substance used to make cigarettes. Corrosion: dissolution by acid/alkali
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COMMENTS:
American spelling (perhaps more elegant) would be "tobaccorosion". I'd like to acknowledge ErWenn's "fagrosion" etymology which suggested this to me. - Discoveria, 2007-01-25: 09:16:00
Thanks. You got my vote. - ErWenn, 2007-01-26: 00:45:00
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Nicotime
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: nick-oh-TIME
Sentence: Jim tossed his half-smoked Marlboro to the ground and mashed it with the heel of his boot. He detested litter, but of course the cigarette would disappear in the nicotime.
Etymology: nicotine + nick of time
Ashvaporate
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: ash-vap-or-ate
Sentence: Paul (hungover, midst bottles, cans and other debris) "Thish room is ashfixiating - smellsh like a gorillash armpit and we needa clear up. Gisha hand ashvaporating these butts, huh?"
Etymology: ash (dregs of cigarette) + (eva)porate (convert into vapour)
Fagrosion
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"fag-'rO-zh&n/
Sentence: Science has long studied the processes of erosion and corrosion, but the related phenomena of gumrosion and fagrosion are much less well understood.
Etymology: From fag (British slang for cigarette) + -rosion (to gnaw or eat away)