Verboticisms

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: 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: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ah-smok-sis

Sentence: Flippantly flipping her cigarette butt out the window, Sue mistakenly thought it would disappear in a few days through the magical process of osmoksis, or perhaps the other mythical process, cigarotte.

Etymology: osmosis, smoke

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ab/ruh/kuh/da/but

Sentence: After his last drag, he flicked his smoke, said abracadabutt and it was gone for good.

Etymology: abracadabra + butt

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COMMENTS:

very funny!!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-25: 09:09:00

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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: 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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Created by: Maureen

Pronunciation: fag-is-ti-nay-shun

Sentence: Don't worry about finding a bin once you stub them out fagistination will take care of them.

Etymology: fag -colloq. cigarette. istine- from phillistine-someone lacking in refinement. ation- suffix for action or process.

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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: 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: maxxy

Pronunciation: nick-oh-TIME

Sentence: Jim tossed his half-smoked Marlboro to the ground and mashed it with the heel of his boot. He detested litter, but of course the cigarette would disappear in the nicotime.

Etymology: nicotine + nick of time

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