Verboticisms

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: gift-SKIN-ning

Sentence: Although Bob couldn't resist using his skills as a taxidermist when unwrapping presents; more often than not, despite his painstaking peelings, his giftskinning ended in a wrapsidermical stuff-up. And many a time on Christmas day a wrapclamation catastrophe found him in deep depression, suffering from another bout of the yuleskinner blues.

Etymology: Gift: a present & Skinning: remove outer layer or epidermis; fig to remove covering.

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COMMENTS:

Your word stuck me as so appropriate to the two seasons, Christma and hunting, that are shared here in the Rocky Mountain northwest. Very timely create! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-22: 14:47:00

Remember" Ghost Riders in The Sky?" ....I just KNEW you would! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-23: 10:16:00

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Created by: monkeywithamonocle

Pronunciation: rap-ree-kay-shun

Sentence: The fabrication of gift wrapping with possible reprocussions.

Etymology: Wrap, fabrication

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Clever! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-23: 10:15:00

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Rap it tran sit

Sentence: Paper Rosey had quite a system. She was a paper clip. She clipped paper from any source she could. She removed paper from gifts, copy machines, comics books, paperbacks, newspapers, even paper dolls, and toilet paper rolls. Paper Rosey even stripped the paper from the walls. Paper Rosey was also the ultimate paper resighcler. Her paper clippings were used, over and over again, to wrap her gifts. Paper Rosey even made paper jams, by taping and pasting small bits and pieces together, until she had enough to cover her gifts. Paper Rosey called all this her ... wrapitransit system.

Etymology: RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM, WRAP IT. RAPID TRANSIT - exspeedient rapid transition system using papers that should have been buried undergound but were quickly re-elevated to the status of gift wrap. WRAP IT - cover it with paper.

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COMMENTS:

clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-22: 09:43:00

Hee Hee Heee- pro foundly undergroundly. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-23: 10:11:00

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: peel+sav

Sentence: I liked the wrapping so much I peelsaved it.

Etymology: peel+save

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Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: rap-sahy-kuhl-d

Sentence: To save money Bill wrapcycled all the paper from the gifts he had received and used on what he gave away.

Etymology: Wrap: From Gift Wrap - a tough paper used for wrapping. + Recycled: to undergo reuse or renewal; be subject to or suitable for further use, activity, etc.

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Created by: mezebra

Pronunciation: chee-po-abray

Sentence: She cheapoabres presents all the time.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: rap - on - core

Sentence: We always rolled our eyes when Mum reminded us, but we still tried to wrapencore on Christmas day so that the paper, ribbons and bows could be set aside for a curtain call the following year.

Etymology: wrap + encore

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Excellent....encore!! Encore!! - Mustang, 2008-12-23: 00:38:00

Bravo! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-23: 10:13:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: rap so free

Sentence: Her Christmas rhapsody turned to crapsody when her chapsody's gift came wrapped in old magazine pages. Colorful as they were, she knew he'd never paid for a magazine in his life, so this gift was done up in wrapsofree. His gift to her from the Gapsody would have been better received if he had not stolen pages from his Dadsody's stash of Playboys. For that he got a slapsody, after which he needed a napsody!

Etymology: Wrap (covering on a gift) & So Free (no cost), wordplay on rhapsody...which this is not!

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COMMENTS:

hilarious! - remistram, 2010-12-22: 10:11:00

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Created by: SKK717

Pronunciation: Ree Pet eh pack use

Sentence: When Dora went to open her gift she noticed how beautiful the wrapping paper was. I better repetipacuse, she thought to herself, so she could save it for later.

Etymology: Combination form of Repetitve, package and use

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: rap-re-dux

Sentence: Trying his best to put positive spin on his miserly habit of reusing wrapping paper, Elmore blithely referred to it as 'rapredux', thinking others would regard it and his stinginess favorably.

Etymology: Blend of wrap and redux....('to bring back')

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