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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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Buttsablivious
Created by: lebeast
Pronunciation: butts - ah - bliv- ee- us
Sentence: After the roof top perch caught on fire from her buttsablivious way of thinking, she wondered who would have done such a thing.
Etymology: butts + oblivious
Tobacgo
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)
Fagfairy
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: Fag-fare-ie
Sentence: Appearently, Roger thinks the fag-fairy will visit tonight.
Etymology: Fag (Slang for cigarettes)+fairy (Tooth fairy takes who take away lost teeth.)
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COMMENTS:
good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-30: 15:15:00
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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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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
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
Fagic
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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Flicknesia
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: flick-nee-shia
Sentence: Bill suffered from flicknesia and thought that his butts would not be litter if he forgot about them.
Etymology: flick + amnesia
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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Poofciggatry
Created by: Johnnyweird
Pronunciation: Poof-sihg-uh-tree
Sentence: Without poofciggatry, we would be knee deep in cigarette butts.
Etymology:
