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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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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)
Tobaccgone
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)
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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Shoawa
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: sho-wah
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Sho a wat? - egonschiela, 2007-01-25: 16:18:00
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Fagrosion
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"fag-'rO-zh&n/
Sentence: Science has long studied the processes of erosion and corrosion, but the related phenomena of gumrosion and fagrosion are much less well understood.
Etymology: From fag (British slang for cigarette) + -rosion (to gnaw or eat away)
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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Vanash
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: van ash
Sentence: her cigarette butts would vanash in a puff of smoke.
Etymology:
Buttgone
Created by: marciamellotaco
Pronunciation: B-uh-t-guh-ah-n
Sentence: We always make sure we do a little buttgone after smoking.
Etymology:
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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