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DEFINITION: v. To increase the world's liquid water supply (and dramatically raise the level of our oceans) by accidentally melting the polar ice caps. n. The rising seas and associated flooding due to melting ice caps.
Verboticisms
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Aquament
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ah-kwa-ment
Sentence: Hilda was relieved she didn't need plastic surgery to aquament her apartment.
Etymology: aqua + augment
Ohnoah
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: ooo - no - ah
Sentence: Ohnoah, Solomen yelled, the polar ice caps are melting. I better start building an Ark.
Etymology: Oh and Noah plus Oh No!!
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COMMENTS:
Oh! So Noahtable! Puntastic, clever, delightful. Super create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:22:00
Good one! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:24:00
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Flaw
Created by: johaquila
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Don't tell me you flawed again! Does this mean we'll have to build another ark?
Etymology: Portmanteau of flood and thaw.
Theathaw
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: theethaw
Sentence: Maybe it was his choice of words, maybe his lisp, but when Henry tried to warn people about global warming, his efforts fell on deaf ears. His proclamation to "beware the arctic theathaw" left people wondering why a teetertotter in the tundra could be any concern to them.
Etymology: thea (ocean) + thaw (to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt) play on seesaw with a lisp.
Hydroflobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hy dro flo bee ya
Sentence: You will know we are suffering from hydroflobia when polar bears and penguins start arriving on one's doorstep, together!
Etymology: Hydro (relating to water) & Flow (the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression) & Phobia (fear of something)
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COMMENTS:
Nice triple, N!
...but i expected more Nosila filla!
Well done. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-16: 01:50:00
loveit! - galwaywegian, 2009-03-16: 05:04:00
Gets high marks here! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:22:00
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Seaswelling
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: see swell ing
Sentence: Perhaps the world's egosystem has been wounded, and that is why it's head and bottom are shrinking and its seaswelling.
Etymology: SEAS, SWELLING, WELLING. SEAS - the earth's large expanses of water. SWELLING - increase in size usually as a result of injury. WELLING - a place where water emerges, whether naturally or the result of man causing it.
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COMMENTS:
I love your sentence. Good word. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:36:00
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Tipanic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: tīpanik
Sentence: Every report of global warming sends Gloria into a tizzy. She feels like a passenger on the Tipanic except that there may not be an iceberg to run into.
Etymology: Titanic (a British passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when it was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives) + panic (sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety)
Subterrainingon
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sub-ter-RAIN-ing-on
Sentence: By trying to harvest ice from the arctic and antarctic ice caps to sell as crushed ice to bars around the world, the ice magnates created massive melting resulting in global downpours of biblical proportions, with subterraningon, the gradual submergence of nations around the globe, being the result.
Etymology: blend of prefix 'sub' (under), 'terrain' (land expanse) 'rain' and 'on'. Play on the word subterranean....'below the surface of the ear
Htooeauno
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: aych too o no
Sentence: When the polar icxe caps started melting, everyone, including hydromatists ran around yelling, "htooeauno!
Etymology: H2O - symbol for water & Eau (French for water) & Oh No! (exclamation of disbelief)
Articmeltiflow
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Ar-tic-mel-ti-flow
Sentence: Eeeek! Marie-Jacques ran screaming out of her home in her bath towel in a panic from the "articmeltiflow" causing water to gush out of every plumbing fixture in her house! She was feeling the effects of global warming. She knew the temperatures in the Arctic region were rising twice as fast as they are elsewhere in the world and the Arctic ice is melting and causing an "articmeltiflow" so badly that is was bursting pipes and overflowing everywhere! Small wild animals were being forced out of their natural habitat floating into Marie-Jacques's home. It wasn't the "articmeltiflow" that she was so much afraid of, it was all the wild animals scurrying around to make a new home at Marie-Jacques's home!
Etymology: Artic;The Arctic (/ɑɹktɪk/, /ɑɹtɪk/) is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean (which overlies the North Pole) and parts of Canada, Greenland (a territory of Denmark), Russia, the United States (Alaska), Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Melt;the process of heating a solid substance to a liquid. tiflow;(slang);causing water to gush as you flush,brush or shower "Articmeltiflow" is causing all your plumbing to overflow and flooding you out of the house as small wild animals float inside and take over.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-03-16: 17:55:00
Everyone did such great creating today! Every sentence and verbotomy was a delight to read!
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James