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'Have you seen my wedding rings?'

DEFINITION: n. The desire to convert items with sentimental value, like antique hand-crafted jewelery, back into the raw material, like gold bullion, to access its commercial value. v. To cash in something with sentimental value.

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Rehashforgold

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: re-hash-4-goald

Sentence: Dylan was sure his rehashforgold would be overlooked by his mother; after all, they were only his Nana's favorite gold earrings that he scrapped to pay off his parking tickets.

Etymology: rehash - to retell or reminisce + cash for gold - shysters that assure you they will send you a fair price for the gold your are trustingly mail to them without prior agreement

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Scentometal

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sentəmetl

Sentence: It was bad enough that Henry had insomnia. After being bombarded by at least a dozen late-night ”Cash-for-Gold” commercials he now has scentometal fever. His wife had to put her foot down when he tried to hock her grandmother’s dentures. ”I don’t care that she loves soup, she can’t gum the rest.”

Etymology: scent (a distinctive smell, esp. one that is pleasant) + metal (a solid material that is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivity) from sentimental

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zinc i like it - galwaywegian, 2010-10-21: 18:23:00

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Nostalchemy

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: nos/tal/kemy

Sentence: Times were tough so Sally and Sam resorted to nostalchemy after rummaging through the house to find anything with traces of base metals. They finally drew the line at pulling filled teeth.

Etymology: nostalgia (sentimental yearning) + alchemy (medieval chemistry seeking to turn base metals into gold)

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COMMENTS:

your reactive attractive verbotomy has great chemistry! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:24:00

Great word! - Mustang, 2009-04-08: 09:43:00

You turn words into gold! - Nosila, 2009-04-08: 23:30:00

ROTFLOL!You always come through with comedy and much to say with so few words~ :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-09: 06:52:00

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Sentimentalsedimented

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: sen-ti-men-tal-sed-i-ment-ed

Sentence: Tiffany Winston couldn't catch her breath and was heart broken, when she realized her husband Harry Winston had "sentimentalsedimented" all of her precious antique gold heirlooms she had inherited from her Grandmother's estate. Tiffany went on to explain, that one single piece of the jewelery he had just "sentimentalsedimented" was valued at over 1.5 million at Sotheby's with what she was willing to part with and had already had it catalogued to be auctioned...but now Harry had turned all of her sentimental jewelry into a glob of sediment worth far le$$ money!

Etymology: Sentimental; Marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism,resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought (a sentimental attachment) or (a sentimental favorite) Sedimented; To settle to the bottom in a liquid,to deposit sediment. (added "ed"); to show the act of melting to achieve a $ediment.

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Souvulcanization

Created by: garythesnail

Pronunciation: SOO-VUL-CUN-I-ZAH-SHUN

Sentence: Jacob had a souvulcanization to smelt his wife's wedding ring and her bracelet into mush.

Etymology: Souvenir + Vulcanization

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Sentimetallurgy

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: sen-ti-met-al-lur-gy

Sentence: Pam walked into the kitchen to find Robert busily smelting her precious heirlooms. When she asked what he was doing Robert replied, "You keep complaining that I have no job or ambition,so I've decided to get into sentimetallurgy. That way I can clean out this junk and make cash at the same time." "That's a great idea," Pam said as she reached for Robert's golf trophy.

Etymology: sentimental:romantic, nostalgic + metallurgy: the science of working with or heating elements to give them desired properties

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COMMENTS:

Very good! - Mustang, 2009-04-08: 09:43:00

funny little story - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-08: 13:22:00

metrohumanx Great word AND story! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:32:00

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Feltchemy

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: felt kem mee

Sentence: Georgia was horrified to come home and find that her husband, Nat had taken all her antique, fine gold jewellery and placed it in a saucepan to try and melt it down into gold ingots. "What kind of feltchemy are you practising?" she lamented. "Relax, Precious", he smirked..."I am just cooking up some Karat soup for us"!

Etymology: Felt (to feel;to have sensed) & Alchemy (ancient chemistry practice to try and change base metals into gold)

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Sentigoldal

Created by: Bughunt

Pronunciation: sen-tee-gole-dul

Sentence: My father is very sentigoldal. My mother's already lost ten necklaces!

Etymology: SENTI-mental, GOLD, sentiment-AL

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Recyclophobia

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: re-cyc-loh-FO-bya

Sentence: Marshall had always been into recycling for environmental concerns but with the turndown in the economy he had become totally recyclophobic even going so far as to melt down family heirlooms, coin collections, and anything else he thought had even a remote chance of containing precious metals.

Etymology: Blend of 'recycle' (return metals etc to their natural state for reuse) and 'phobia' (phobic)(irrational fear)

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Jewelleremixedemotions

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: ju/well/ur/ree/mixed/ee/moe/shuns

Sentence: It was with jerwelleremixedemotions that she melted down all her charms.

Etymology: jewellery + re mix + mixed emotions

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-04-08: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James

silveryaspen - 2009-04-08: 07:35:00
Your mind took this golden opportunity, mined the definition and cartoon, and smelted it all down for all it was worth!

silveryaspen - 2009-04-08: 07:37:00
Shoot - got into the wrong box by mistake.

silveryaspen - 2009-04-08: 07:40:00
On second thought - that compliment is also very fitting for Metro's creating this definition and James' cartoon!

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2009-04-08: 23:59:00
I feel some guilt creating a def AND a word, but i really don't have anything premeditated... i'm just a verbosoldier in the verbototrenches - and i never vote for myself..... i'm not worthy. But i really love all you guys - you all raise the standard! And i really appreciate the factoid that thee are no spammers or hostile minds to contend with. we are indeed fortunate. The James Gang deserves some kind of cyber-medal... and you all do too! In Peace and Harmony and Conservation of our Precious bodily fluids.... I thank you all!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-04-09: 07:33:00
Thank you for the kind and funny words -- especially the ones made from your melted-down memories. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-10-21: 00:14:00
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James