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DEFINITION: v., To carefully place a lid on a bottle, especially a salad dressing bottle, so that it appears closed and will not spill unless the bottle is moved or shaken. n., A bottle which has been prepared in such a manner.
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Exdlope
Created by: FreakoSpeako
Pronunciation:
Sentence: the soda bottle exdloped when the lady shook it and opened it.
Etymology:
Sausprize
Created by: tdhall56
Pronunciation: saw sprize
Sentence: She got a sausprize when she tried to put ketchup on her fries.
Etymology: sauce surprise or prize (something extra)
Whoopibottle
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: woo-pee-bot-tel
Sentence: "Haha! Doug punked Rachel with a whoopibottle. She spilled salad dressing all over the table."
Etymology: whoopi cushion + bottle
Faketite
Created by: KenM2
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He carefully performed faketite on the bottle, then hid in the back to watch the victim.
Etymology: Fake+Tight
Screwictim
Created by: Osmosis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After the Wishbone salad dressing exploding on her, Mary became enraged at being the latest screwictim of her husband's pranks.
Etymology: Screw + victim
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COMMENTS:
Typo: should be "exploded" instead of "exploding" - Osmosis, 2007-10-23: 22:06:00
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Connedement
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: condiment
Sentence: Doris's mother-in-law loved to poke around in the fridge whenever she came to visit. She would pull out all the sauce and dressings bottles, giving them a firm shake and peering at the use by dates before exclaiming loudly to embarrass Doris, when she found an old one. This time, Doris had a cunning plan to thwart the old biddy. Her fridge was now full of connedements - at the first shake, her mother-in-law was sure to get a face full of thousand island dressing, fish sauce or aioli.
Etymology: conned (subject to a confidence trick) + dement (to cause someone to lose their faculties) + condiment (accompaniments for your food)
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COMMENTS:
Hey Petaj - welcome back!! Great word today - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-19: 09:25:00
Good one! - Mustang, 2008-09-19: 17:13:00
Welcome back...my connedeplements on your word! - Nosila, 2008-09-19: 20:08:00
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Condimark
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: CON-de-mark / tom-FOOD-er-ee
Sentence: Kevin was often the condimark of such tomfoodery as the loose salt shaker or the mustard in the ketchup bottle.
Etymology: condiment+mark (the target of malice) / tomfoolery + food.
Revinaigrette
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: re vin ay gret
Sentence: Lettuce examine the facts. After George's cruel trick on Helen, he was filled with revinaigrette, cos he loosened the lid on the salad dressing. Not only that, he failed to romaine at the scene of the grime. She vowed that he would never get to see her dressing again unless he bought her a one carrot diamond ring (which would cost him his celery)...or else he'd end up in the Mayo clinic. Endive story.
Etymology: Regret (feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about) & Vinaigrette (oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic;salad dressing)
Halflip
Created by: jhill1229
Pronunciation: haf lip
Sentence: It drives me crazy when my son halflips the milk container.
Etymology:
Sliptolid
Created by: lawvol
Pronunciation: Slippt-ôh-lidd
Sentence: Jake was careful to sliptolid the bottle such that his roommate was unaware that something was afoot with the "Ken's Steak House Ranch Dressing".
Etymology: Slipped Lid
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Definitely Krafty behaviour!
remistram - 2007-10-23: 09:52:00
I had to marry the loose lidder...I'm a shake first, tight lidder thus the birth of this definition.
Time to throttle the bottler? ~ James
galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:29:00
galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:30:00
very high standard so far today!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James