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: toadstool57

Pronunciation: butt-O-dE-grAde-tion

Sentence: Jill relies on natures buttodegradetion to take care of her ciggarette butt as she tosses it on the floor and then begins to do her dance on it.

Etymology: butt/biodegrade/degrade

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COMMENTS:

- toadstool57, 2007-01-25: 08:22:00

The spelling should be buttodegradetion. I can't seem to change it - toadstool57, 2007-01-25: 08:24:00

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Created by: johnnyrockett

Pronunciation: sig-no-rinse

Sentence: His cignorance blocked the mess of butts that littered the floor of his car.

Etymology: Cigarette + ignorance

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COMMENTS:

Perhaps a better pronunciation guide would be 'sig-no-rinse' - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:53:00

Thanks protothor... - johnnyrockett, 2007-01-25: 19:56:00

Hey johnny, Great word! There are a lot of cignorant people hanging around the front door of my office. - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:19:00

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Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: ash-trot

Sentence: With a flick of his wrist, and a quick ashtrot, the cigarette was squished under his foot and gone forever.

Etymology: ashtray, putting out a cigarette butt with the foot

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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: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon fag ay shun

Sentence: When Virginia Slims started dating the Marlborough Man (Smoky to his friends), she worried not what would happen after they butted out their emberous reamains. She believed that the natural process of confagation would remove the reminders of their nicotine assignations. She was partly right, as often there would be a fire after they left the area and the coffin nails smouldered and flared up.

Etymology: Conflagration (a very intense and uncontrolled fire) & Fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ree-sahy-buht-l

Sentence: Far too many smokers use the Earth as their ashtray. They believe that they don't have to pick up their lazy butts and deal with their nasty butts. Somehow they will recybuttle themselves. Worse yet they will justify their action claiming that they are helping to employ the poor schlub who cleans up after them.

Etymology: recycle (to undergo reuse or renewal; be subject to or suitable for further use, activity, etc) + butt (an end that is not used or consumed; remnant; cigarette)

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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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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: 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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