Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: chipbəngk

Sentence: When Chip's brother went off to college the bedroom was all his. The first thing he did was to squirrel away some of his favorite snacks. He could never do this before because his brother would always ferret them out. He had cookies in shoe boxes in his closet - gummy bears in his sock drawer. He found that he could replace his brother's pillow with bags of chips. He took over the upper berth so he now had Chip's bunk and a chipbunk.

Etymology: chip (a thin slice of food made crisp by being fried, baked, or dried and typically eaten as a snack) + bunk (a piece of furniture consisting of two beds, one above the other, that form a unit)

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COMMENTS:

Makes me hungry just reading about it. Good word! - Mustang, 2009-03-18: 19:21:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: chocolate drop

Sentence: Theo surreptitiously withdrew a Mars Bar from the chocalotdrop. Unfortunately he was spotted by the cleaner who yelled out "Mr. Bromine! so you are the culprit inviting all the ants into the office".

Etymology: chocolate drop (a sweet treat) + a lot (large quantity) + drop (a location for depositing things eg. book drop at the library)

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COMMENTS:

Clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 13:05:00

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: hoard a weigh

Sentence: When it comes to sweets and treats, especially nuts, Hazel likes to make like a squirrel and stash them in a cache. Hazel would be most upset if you found a way into her hoardaway.

Etymology: HOARD - to secretly accumulate and collect. AWAY - missing, as in missing so no one else can have it. HOARDAWAY is also a word play on HIDE AWAY.

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What do most hoardaways dislike? Da weigh in! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 00:52:00

You always take the HARDWAY! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:24:00

Hordes of people (and squirrels) would love to find Hazel's hidden hoardaway... - mweinmann, 2009-03-18: 13:02:00

especially her cachew stash, mweinmann! Better not let her cacheyou! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 20:10:00

Awesome! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-19: 00:02:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: stash-a-slot

Sentence: I see the problem with your computer memory... your stashaslot is full of sticky goo!

Etymology: Stash- To hide or store away in a secret place. A- Used before nouns and noun phrases that denote a single but unspecified person or thing. Slot- A narrow opening; a groove or slit.

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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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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)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ohm-NISH-shynt

Sentence: Having several cleverly disguised hiding places around his home and garage for goodies he wanted to keep only for his own uses, Bernard smugly considered himself to be omnichecient and quite clever.

Etymology: Blend of the prefix 'omni' (A combining form denoting all, every, everywhere; as in omnipotent, all-powerful; omnipresent) 'niche' (A recess in a wall) play on the word omniscient (all knowing)

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COMMENTS:

Very nichely done! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:47:00

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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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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kahl owe reffff euj

Sentence: having neglected to clean out his calorefuge before his extended leave, He noticed a strange smell in his office upon his return, whereupon two rather green ex-muffins tried to climb onto his lap to welcome him back

Etymology: calorie refuge

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COMMENTS:

What a picture! What an ending! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:36:00

cute blend, how lovely to have 2 green muffins for St.Pat's Day (last year!) - Nosila, 2009-03-18: 19:01:00

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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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