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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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Chipbunk
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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Omnichecient
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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Stashaslot
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.
Chocalotdrop
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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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)
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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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)
Snacache
Created by: Radegar
Pronunciation: snakaysh (alt) snakash
Sentence: George hid his personal treats in his well hidden snacache. (n) No one could snacache her supplies like Juie (v).
Etymology: A combination of snack and cache
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COMMENTS:
Welcome! You really cached in on this one! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 12:33:00
Excellent!! - Mustang, 2009-03-18: 19:20:00
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Hoardaway
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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COMMENTS:
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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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