Verboticisms

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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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: 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: Johnnyweird

Pronunciation: Poof-sihg-uh-tree

Sentence: Without poofciggatry, we would be knee deep in cigarette butts.

Etymology:

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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: 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: 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: Alchemist

Pronunciation: mahrl-bore-oh-GEN-uh-sis

Sentence: Thanks to marlborogenesis, the world is filled with little yellow flowers. I try to do my part.

Etymology: Marlboro + (partheno)genesis

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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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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

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