Verboticisms

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: artr

Pronunciation: sigrəkədabrə

Sentence: Too many smokers think that some sort of cigracadabra happens when they toss their spent butts to the ground.

Etymology: cigarette (a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking) + abracadabra (a word said by magicians when performing a magic trick)

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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: 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: 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: 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: santasassassin

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology: The taking away of litter.

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Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: bah-yoh-dee-grayd-ah-but

Sentence: Contrary to popular belief, cig butts are most def NOT biodegradabutt.

Etymology: biodegradable + (cigarette) butt

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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: 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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