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DEFINITION: n. A hiding place which is used to store emergency supplies like donuts, booze and candies. v. To hide special treats in secret locations around your home or office, so you can access them when needed.
Verboticisms
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Smorgashoard
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: smor gas hord
Sentence: Thor, being of Viking descent, had developed the habit of hiding olaf his food all around his home, so that he could eat or drink something wherever he was with little effort. He hid candies in his mail box; mead bottles in his toilet tank(Skol!); herring in his ottoman storage area; nuts in his sock drawer and potato chips in his computer desk. He called this food his smorgashoard, or so the saga goes. It seemed like a good idea until the insects and mice found his cache and overran his home. Now Thor is full of re-Norse and he will have to find other ways to be toastin' Odin, like pillaging his fridge and raiding his pantry.
Etymology: Smorgasbord (an assortment of foods served as a buffet meal) & Hoard (a secret store of valuables or money; save up as for future use)
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COMMENTS:
mmmmmmmmmm - galwaywegian, 2010-09-29: 08:15:00
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Cachehere
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: cash heer
Sentence: Penny told everyone that she was a cashier, but that was just a beard for the thing she did at home with booze, chocolate and potato chips. She would find a way to cachehere them all over the house. Tradesmen were always finding goodies when they were called in to repair things.
Etymology: Cache (secret hiding place) & Here (this place or location)& WordPlay on Cashier (person who recieves or pays out money)
Cachedrawer
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kash draw er
Sentence: Simon had a place to hide goodies for a rainy day, or a day when his Mom decided he had not earned any treats. His cachedrawer was a hollowed out section on his old computer. Eventually though his mom caught on...when the ants kept crawling in and out of his hard drive. They were his original computer bugs.
Etymology: Cache (a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons);(computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics;a secret store of valuables or money) & Cash Drawer (a till or place to lock valuables)
Stache
Created by: catlover59
Pronunciation: Stash
Sentence: Surrounded by technology and greedy people, he stached his goodies in the storage compartment of his equipment.
Etymology: stash-to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place and cache-(computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics (i.e. human and equipment)
Shotspot
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: shot - spot
Sentence: Ernie could not get through the day without a shot or two of rum, vodka, gin, brandy, whisky or some alcoholic fix. Because he did not want anyone to know his weakness, he kept a secret place he called his shotspot where he kept the flavor of the day, along with his special shot glass.
Etymology: shot and spot; also play on "hotspot"
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COMMENTS:
Great originality. Did you know that most hard liquor has so much sugar in its simplest form that a shot is a 100 calories! Sure puts alcohol in the sweet treat category. Shotspot is a tiptop create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 20:03:00
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Contrabank
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: CON trah BANK
Sentence: At the girls dormitory cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, and even chocolate or any kind of junk food were considered contraband. Sue thought life without vices was more of a sin than with them. Her life would be contritely bland, without her contraband, so she had a whole contrabank of goodies.
Etymology: CONTRABAND: BANK:
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:25:00
Terrific one letter change! Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:45:00
loved it. - mweinmann, 2009-03-18: 12:57:00
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Chocolocker
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: chok + oh + lock + ur
Sentence: Crissy craved chocolate. She was always chewing on a chunk, chip, bar, nugget, kiss or cookie....anything with chocolate. She decided to collocate everything she craved in a huge chocolocker. It became her chewy, crispy chocolate containing cabinet, secured with a combination lock.
Etymology: Chocolate and Locker >> We all know what Chocolate means. This chocolate is contained in a locked cabinet so it can be hidden away....
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COMMENTS:
Sweet alliteration! Sweet creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:40:00
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Laysaway
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: leys-uh-wey
Sentence: Josh has more hiding places for snacks around the office than he can remember. He definitely believes in the Laysaway plan.
Etymology: Lays (a snack brand) layaway (an article or item put away for annuitized payments)
Snackpack
Created by: Negatrev
Pronunciation: Snak-pak
Sentence: John decided to snackpack his Mars bar, for safekeeping.
Etymology: from snack (Food eaten between meals) and pack (To put into a receptacle for transporting or storing)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-03-18: 19:57:00
As I looked at the list of todays verbotomies in daily stats ... it struck me that we had a lot of new words of pots of old! (big wink/silly grin) But the clever creates are golden again today!
kateinkorea - 2009-03-19: 00:00:00
I came from a big family, so I was laughing by the first sentence. Good word.
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James