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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.
Verboticisms
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Buttodegradable
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
Ashtrot
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
Osmoksis
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
Prestibuttitate
Created by: paperhoard
Pronunciation: press-tee-butt-i-tate
Sentence: With a quick flick of the finger and fluttering of the hands, Charles used prestibuttitation to make the cigarette butt almost disappear.
Etymology: prestidigitate + butt
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COMMENTS:
Impressive! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-25: 07:14:00
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Stubrub
Created by: EonaFrae
Pronunciation: stub-rub
Sentence: As the only nonsmoker, George watched the stubrub process in awe, thinking to himself what little it did for the sidewalk.
Etymology: Stub [the final remnants of a smoked cigarette] + Rub [To remove by pressure and friction]
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-15: 07:00:00
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Tobaccorrosion
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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Biodegradabutt
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
Buttinhole
Created by: jonzerofourteen
Pronunciation: buh-tin-hohl
Sentence: Bob’s determination to give up smoking was admirable. He took a final draw of his cigarette and threw it to the ground theatrically. This, for sure, would be his last buttinhole.
Etymology: Butt (stub of a cigarette) + in (situation or place with respect to space) + hole (an opening through something)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant :) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-14: 04:26:00
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Cignorance
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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Cigarbage
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: see-gar-bage
Sentence: Jonathan inhaled deeply, while his girlfriend complained (again) about the cigarbage on their living floor. He dropped his cigarette to the floor and carefully stubbed it out. Then he turned to her letting out a puff of smoke, and said, "What garbage? I don't see garbage."
Etymology: cigar + garbage