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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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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)
Floorcleaner
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: floor cleaner
Sentence: just put let it drop, i will call the floorcleaner
Etymology: floor and cleaner
Concigquence
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: con - sig - quence
Sentence: They just don't understand the concigquences
Etymology: consequence + cigarette
Buttgone
Created by: marciamellotaco
Pronunciation: B-uh-t-guh-ah-n
Sentence: We always make sure we do a little buttgone after smoking.
Etymology:
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)
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.
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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Cigerase
Created by: jbricandy
Pronunciation: Cig-erase
Sentence: She dropped her cigarette and expected it to cigerase by itself.
Etymology:
Ashtrayitis
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: ash - tray -itis
Sentence: Lucy's butts flew from her open car window because she suffered from the terrible disease known as ashtrayitis.
Etymology: Ashtray - that thing smokers should use to store their butts in. Itis - inflammation of, as in an allergy.
Buttification
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.
