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DEFINITION: n. A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else's butts.
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Cigracadabra
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)
Erastub
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: era/stub
Sentence: John was a smoker, and left his stubs all over the flat. Unfortunately, since the erastub hadn't kicked in yet, he had to clean the floor himself!
Etymology: erase + stub
Combuttstion
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)
Buttodegration
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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Bioprestidigitation
Created by: hoylus
Pronunciation: bye oh press ti deegee tay schon.
Sentence:
Etymology: prestidigitation is slight of hand as used by magicians, bio suggests natural.
Debuttal
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: dee-but-al
Sentence: Clarence seemed to think his discarded smokes were magically absorbed by nature and was oblivious to the debuttal efforts of those around him.
Etymology: de: prefix meaning to remove or undo. butt: slang for cigarette al: suffix - having the properties or characteristics
Smotheritigration
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.
Marlburrow
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: marl bur roh
Sentence: when the smokers go to sleep, the marlburrow bunny comes out of his marlburrow with his little broom to brush the naughty little butts down to middle earth.
Etymology: marlboro burrow
Disintegrette
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: dis in tuh gret
Sentence: I was going to pick up the cigarette butt that my brother so rudely threw on the carpeted floor, but I was surprised when I saw it disintegrette right before my eyes!
Etymology: disintegrate + cigarette
Tobacgo
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)
