Verboticisms

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

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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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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: fadge ick

Sentence: and as if by fagic it was stuck to the bottom of her shoe and Mary thought it had disappeared.What she forgot to notice was that her shoes had been slowly getting taller and now had a 3 inch platforms of butts.

Etymology: from fag an English word for a cigarette and magic

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COMMENTS:

This made me laugh. I think the sentence could use a bit of work, but it's a great word. - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:50:00

Yeah, it is great word! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 00:52:00

English born and bred but still I can't get a hold of the language properly. There is no hope for me as a writer. - erasmus, 2007-01-26: 04:05:00

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Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: but-sum-shun

Sentence: If it weren't for buttsumption, the lawn outside the hospital would be made up of cigarette remains entirely.

Etymology: cigraette butt + consumption

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Created by: EonaFrae

Pronunciation: stub-rub

Sentence: As the only nonsmoker, George watched the stubrub process in awe, thinking to himself what little it did for the sidewalk.

Etymology: Stub [the final remnants of a smoked cigarette] + Rub [To remove by pressure and friction]

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COMMENTS:

:) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-15: 07:00:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: to bak go

Sentence: Virginia Slims reckoned that the cigarette butts she chucked would blow off into the air and recycle themselves. That's why they were actually known as tobacgo leaves.

Etymology: Tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking) & Go (stop operating or functioning)

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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

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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)

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Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: ash - tray -itis

Sentence: Lucy's butts flew from her open car window because she suffered from the terrible disease known as ashtrayitis.

Etymology: Ashtray - that thing smokers should use to store their butts in. Itis - inflammation of, as in an allergy.

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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

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