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DEFINITION: v. To leave a minute quantity of something in a bottle or container. n. A person who never finishes off the last bit of milk, mustard or whatever, because they want to leave the job of replacing it to someone else.
Verboticisms
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Refridgulater
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: re-frij-yoo-lay-tah
Sentence: as he put the almost empty bottle of sauce back in the fridge he knew he was a refridgulator of the highest order
Etymology: refrigerator, re fridge you later
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COMMENTS:
good one - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-14: 14:41:00
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Judgedregg
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: juj dreg
Sentence: he was judgedregg, lord of refrigerated drippiness
Etymology: judge dredd dreg
Allgonif
Created by: theCountess
Pronunciation: All-gawn-if
Sentence: What allgonif didn't replace the toilet paper!?!?
Etymology: All gone: depleted, used up; gonif: yiddish noun meaning scoundrel
Dribletarian
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dribliterēən
Sentence: Mark's girlfriend Judy is a humanitarian, vegetarian, librarian. Mark is a dribletarian, the keeper of the small and insignificant, the Grand Poobah of dribs and drabs, the Rajah of remnants. Judy thinks he is just a lazy slob who doesn't want to crack out a new bottle of ketchup.
Etymology: driblet (a small or insignificant amount) + arian (having a concern or belief in a specified thing)
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COMMENTS:
Perhaps one of them is a Hungarian octogenarian. - wayoffcenter, 2009-05-14: 13:10:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-14: 14:39:00
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Scrapulator
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: Scrap you later
Sentence: Luke was one of those people who would actually create work for himself procrastinating over household chores. Finding a condiment vessel in his pantry that had any more than a scrap of contents was nigh on impossible. When Sally went looking for Vegemite and found not one but seven almost empty jars she exclaimed "Luke! When *will* you scrap all this detritus?" To which Luke replied "Oh, I'll do it later". And thus his nickname was born.
Etymology: The mindset of the scrapulator: eh, I'll scrap you later
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COMMENTS:
super - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-14: 14:42:00
Also the detritus being 'scrap' and the person being one who scraps.. leaving them all over. - dochanne, 2009-05-15: 04:17:00
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Udoit
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: you do it
Sentence: Living with S. Lacker was very wearying. He was famous for leaving jars in the fridge, and each only contained a udoit of their original contents.
Etymology: instruction to get someone else to do something + dot (a little bit left over)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-14: 14:44:00
Good One - Nosila, 2009-05-14: 18:43:00
well done - splendiction, 2009-05-14: 23:35:00
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Leftoeuvre
Created by: kasmin
Pronunciation: left-oh-wer
Sentence:
Etymology: Derived from leftover and oeuvre. Leftover: Usually, leftovers. Food remaining uneaten at the end of a meal, esp. when saved for later use; anything left or remaining from a larger amount; remainder. Oeuvre: the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole.
Unfinfoodish
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: un-finn-food-ish
Sentence: She got a false sense of security when she looked in the fridge. Tons of bottles, boxes of juice, cartons of milk - she had never seen so much food in there. But wait she lives with a unfinfoodisher, there is a mere ounce left in each container. Why won't he just commit and completely empty some?
Etymology: unfinish + food
Judgedregg
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: juj drehg
Sentence: Judgedregg could be found by following the nearly-empties across the park.
Etymology: judge dread, dregs
Smidgentoad
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: smi jen tode
Sentence: Tony was a smidgentoad. He left bottles, cans and other food containers with just a smidgen of the goods in them. He was lazy and figured if he did that, he would never be responsible for cleaning out or buying replacements. His actions however had left just a smidgen of love left in his girlfriend Maria and she decided to throw him out with all those empty containers.
Etymology: Smidgen (a tiny or scarcely detectable amount)& Toad (ugly amphibian;derogatory term for a person) & WordPlay on Pigeon-Toed
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx Thank you metrohumanx ~ James
readerwriter - 2009-05-14: 09:17:00
I detect some venting going on here today! Thanks, Metro...
Yes, you are correct.
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
remistram - 2010-11-25: 08:45:00
good one! i live with one of these types