Verboticisms

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: protothor

Pronunciation: smuh-thur-it-uh-gray-shun

Sentence: Lucky that cigarette butts smotheritagrate , or else we might be polluting the environment. =o

Etymology: Smother it; a semi-common command directed at smokers who recently dropped their cigarette butts on the ground. igration; coming from 'desinigration', or the natural process by which things decay.

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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: paperhoard

Pronunciation: press-tee-butt-i-tate

Sentence: With a quick flick of the finger and fluttering of the hands, Charles used prestibuttitation to make the cigarette butt almost disappear.

Etymology: prestidigitate + butt

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COMMENTS:

Impressive! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-25: 07:14:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: but-ti-fi-ca-tion

Sentence: Because she loved the park, Norma engaged in buttification every weekend so that visitors, especially the children, wouldn't have to put up with the sights and smells of tobacco waste.

Etymology: beautification: to make or become beautiful + butt: the discarded end of a cigarette.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: van ash

Sentence: her cigarette butts would vanash in a puff of smoke.

Etymology:

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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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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: 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

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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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