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DEFINITION: v., To find a lost item immediately after purchasing a replacement. n., An item which is lost and cannot not be found unless a replacement is purchased.
Verboticisms
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Suckscessor
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: suk ses sor
Sentence: When George's wife, Gina, had disappeared on a flight to Australia 7 years ago, he had spent ages looking for her and grieving. When he was finally convinced she had perished in the plane crash, along with the other passengers, he started to move on with his life. He collected on her life insurance and fell in love with the pretty insurance lady, Alice. At their marriage ceremony, when the audience was asked who objected to their wedding, imagine his surprise when Gina turned up! Turns out she had spent those 7 years on an uncharted island. How was he going to explain he had spent most of the insurance money on his wedding to her sucksessor!
Etymology: Sucks (slang:something which makes you unhappy or which disappoints) & Successor (a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone)
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COMMENTS:
Very funny. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-26: 18:27:00
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Gynhologymduo
Created by: NeuroGlyph
Pronunciation: Jyne-hole-oh-gem-do-ho
Sentence: Gynhologymduo! Pididdle has officially been replaced.
Etymology:
Replacementaltelepathy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ree/place/men/tal/tele/path/ee
Sentence: I find that a surefire way to find a lost item is to use repalecementaltelepathy. Without fail, as soon as the replacement is in your hand, the location of the lost item will instantly be apparent.
Etymology: replacement + mental telepathy (paranormal communication)
Restituition
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: res/ti/tu/i/shun
Sentence: After getting a third and final notice that her tuition, which she was sure she'd paid, was due she sent off another cheque only to learn that it had been cashed twice - what restituition
Etymology: restitution + tuition
Costanfound
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Cos-t-en-fownd
Sentence: Henry had searched for his very expensive watch for weeks, eventualy he decided to buy a replacement as he never knew what time of day it was. He went to the jewellers and picked one out that was similar to the one he had lost, satisfied with his purchase(apart from the price) he got back into his car to go home and promptly dropped his keys under the seat as he reached down to retrieve them he felt something else lurking there and could not believe it when he pulled out his original watch, and realised he had certainly suffered the costanfound syndrome.
Etymology: Cost(The price of something) + Found(to come upon unexpectedly after searching) = Costanfound
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COMMENTS:
good word! - Nosila, 2008-09-25: 20:15:00
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Karmagotcha
Created by: LoftyDreamer
Pronunciation: kar-muh-gah-chuh
Sentence: Their boss was so nasty and mean to everyone in the office that they were gleeful when he came back from lunch with a new iPhone, just as Lost & Found made a karmagotcha call to tell him they'd found the one he'd lost.
Etymology: karma (fate; destiny resulting from one's actions) + gotcha (caught you)
Switchbacktrack
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Switch-back-track
Sentence: Harvey was reaching under the loveseat to retrieve his wayward M&Ms when he felt something thin and plastic, which turned out to be the iPod Nano he lost during the Steelers game last week and couldn't live without, and then had to rush down to Best Buy and switchbacktrack a new one with the leftover balance on his gift card his folks sent last Christmas, while Nancy glanced over at his bag of M&Ms and asked with mild indifference, "are you eating those, or what?"
Etymology: Switch: change or swap + Switchback: an unexpected change of direction + Backtrack: to cover territory already traveled.
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COMMENTS:
cute - Nosila, 2008-09-25: 20:17:00
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Postespialoss
Created by: zxvasdf
Pronunciation: post es pi aloss
Sentence: Johnny was assaulted by a postespialoss and when his wife (didn't he knock her out, haul her to nowhere and put her in a locked chest six feet under the ground?) found him proposing to another woman.
Etymology: Post (after) & espial (taking notice of something) & loss (act or instance of losing)
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COMMENTS:
interesting - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-25: 13:18:00
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Findstitute
Created by: Lidipop
Pronunciation: f-hind-st-eee-toot!
Sentence: to easy my mind from searching obsessively for what i've lost, i'll just have to 'findstitute' my item until it pops up!
Etymology: Find(to encounter/to discover) + substitute(to replace with something that should function the same way)= 'findstitute'
Searchpartycle
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: surch part eee kel
Sentence: Perdita looked high and low for it. Again. How could a tv remote control disappear into the vapours. Here we go again, ripping the couch apart to look for it, but this time without luck. All her guests were arriving for the Olympics party she had organized and so she deputized them to help in the hunt. The show was starting shortly, so she had to make a quick run (her own personal best record speed to Walmart) for a replacement. Sure enough, she arrived with the searchpartycle just as someone found it in the giant bowl of popcorn. Oh well, if she lost it again, she now had a replacement, as long as she didn't forget where she put that. No wonder they called it a remote control...it was never near her when she wanted it!
Etymology: Search Party (a party of people to search for someone/something) & Particle (a tiny piece of anything)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James