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DEFINITION: v. To express your love of nature by covering your lawn with statues, ornaments and other plastic figurines. n. A home which is infested with gnomes, elves, plastic animals, and other lawn ornaments.
Verboticisms
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Kitschen
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: k itch in
Sentence: The food in her kitschen was great, it was the little plaques all over the place with heart warming phrases that were hard to stomach.
Etymology: kitchen, kitsch
Gnomemansland
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: NO-manz-land
Sentence: Barb thought it was cute to decorate her yard with little plastic statues of Snow White and her dwarf buddies but her neighbors snickered behind her back and had labeled her yard gnomemansland.
Etymology: Blend of Gnome, man, and land, play on the phrase 'no mans land'.
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COMMENTS:
great....like it!! - mweinmann, 2009-04-17: 09:10:00
It doesn't get gnome better! Super Duper! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:36:00
Yes this is a great word! - splendiction, 2009-04-17: 16:07:00
There's no place like gnome! - Nosila, 2009-04-17: 21:23:00
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Dwarficulture
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: dw-orf-kulcha
Sentence: Minnie by name, mini by nature, she loved trolling through the flea markets looking for tyre swans, ceramic animals and her favourite concrete gnomes to add to the dwarficulture in her back yard.
Etymology: dwarf + horticulture
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COMMENTS:
Clever start to your great sentence and for your great verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:31:00
Excellent word! Dwarficulture captures well the selection of "dwarf" and disney gnomes out there! - splendiction, 2009-04-17: 19:02:00
Great gnomenclature - Mustang, 2009-04-17: 21:18:00
Gnomaste...great word! - Nosila, 2009-04-17: 21:26:00
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Aliceinwonderyard
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: ayl-iss-inn-wun-dur-yaar-d
Sentence: Everyone knew Vicki had a horrible case of aliceinwonderyard. Her front lawn was decorated with an army of gnomes, a flock of pink flamingos, a herd of plastic deer, and a wiseguy left over from a nativity set.
Etymology: Alice in wonderland (a popular children's fantasy book) + yard (that green stuff around some peoples houses)
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COMMENTS:
Your word is so Wonderfull! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:24:00
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Centrollpark
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sen trol park
Sentence: Ivy thought she was a cultivated, worldly person. When she and her sister, Holly, bought a house and started to decorate the large garden with trolls and other garden accessories, Ivy decided to call their home Centrollpark. She had a little sign painted to hang on the gate and her neighbours thought her English country garden decorated with the fairyland characters quite quaint. Eventually though their garden was over-run by gnomes, fairies, flamingos, leprechauns, toadstools, toads, windmills and wells. Then some of their friends started giving the girls plastic pigs in all sizes and colors to add to their motif. The pigs were everywhere. The fish pond became Swine Lake, their toolshed became a sty, the Flamingos became Hamingos and the walk, now a trotter, was a big boar. The plastic porcines threatened to hog every green space in the yard. Sadly the lovely Centrollpark had become Centrollpork!
Etymology: Central Park (A huge park in Manhattan) & Troll (Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature, either a dwarf or a giant)
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COMMENTS:
hahaha, clever story and word. - mweinmann, 2009-04-17: 09:09:00
This is one to really extroll (extoll) over! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:27:00
LOL at the pigs theme! Well done! - splendiction, 2009-04-17: 18:57:00
Ivy sounds like a troll-op - Mustang, 2009-04-17: 21:15:00
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Uglawn
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: uhg-lawn
Sentence: Mindy just loves plastic gnomes, elves, mushrooms, flamingos, and deer. There are so many ornaments on her uglawn that you can hardly find a single blade of grass.
Etymology: ugly (unattractive) + lawn (cultivated area of green grass)
Tchotchkepidemic
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: chawtch-key-epp-ih-dem-ick
Sentence: The toys that comprised the tchotchkepidemic on her lawn were defaced by the neighbourhood kids. To her horror they drew anatomically correct body parts on the gnomes and smurfs with black Sharpies.
Etymology: tchotchke (as in trinket or ornament) + epidemic (as in a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something)
Gnomemansland
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: NO-manz-land
Sentence: Lucy thought it was cute to decorate her yard with little plastic statues of Snow White and her dwarf buddies but her neighbors snickered behind her back and had labeled her yard gnomemansland.
Etymology: Blend of 'Gnome', (One of a fabled race of dwarflike creatures) 'man' (human), and land, play on the phrase 'no mans land'
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COMMENTS:
Hmmmmm - Mustang, 2013-08-15: 06:42:00
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Fairylawned
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: fair - ee - laund
Sentence: Genevieve visited craft shows, garden centers and garage sales and couldn't stop bringing them home... She had totally fairylawned her yard. Sneezy, Breezy, Hopeless and Doc stood guard over her vast grounds in which neighborhood kids had begun to frolic, while their parents prayed for the big bad wolf to pay a visit....
Etymology: Fairy, Lawn, Fairyland
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COMMENTS:
Clever, appealing and fun! Winsome Word! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:35:00
Enchanting! - Nosila, 2009-04-17: 21:22:00
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Ignomeramous
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ig nohm ray muss
Sentence: She was a total ignomeramous, given to elf harm when feeling grumpy, bashful or dopey.
Etymology: ingoramous gnome
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by readerwriter. Thank you readerwriter. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by readerwriter. Thank you readerwriter. ~ James