Verboticisms

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: 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: santasassassin

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology: The taking away of litter.

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: no-ifs-or-butts

Sentence: after studying the science behind noifsorbutts, Kevin was suitably satisfied that this process was indeed 'natural' and 'magical' at the same time

Etymology: [cigarette]butts, no ifs or buts

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: to bak gawn

Sentence: When Diane DuMaurier met Peter Jackson, it was love at first sight. Their first date was at a Matinee and afterwards they went to the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley. He puffed away, one cigarette after another and seemed to think all the butts would evaporate away in a tobaccgone process. When she realized he left a mess behind, she ran off with the Marlboro Man. Peter thought that took a lot of Gauloise to do such a thing. They were last seen trying to Export A Camel.

Etymology: Tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion) & Gone (having all been spent;away;former)

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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: josje

Pronunciation: floor cleaner

Sentence: just put let it drop, i will call the floorcleaner

Etymology: floor and cleaner

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: bīō-d-ig-a-ret

Sentence: Peter threw his fag end to the floor, assuming it would eventually biodegarette.

Etymology: biodegrade + cigarette

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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: 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)

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