Verboticism: Plunderwear
DEFINITION: n. The desire to convert items with sentimental value, like antique hand-crafted jewelery, back into the raw material, like gold bullion, to access its commercial value. v. To cash in something with sentimental value.
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Sentimeltall
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sen tim ell tahl
Sentence: It's amazing how quickly sentimental turns to sentimeltall in tough times
Etymology: sentimental melt all
Rawlove
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: R-aw-luv
Sentence: Alex was overcome with rawlove when he saw the price of gold go over $1000 an ounce, knowing that 5 of his 6 teeth had gold caps on them! He immediately used a pliers to yank them off and melted them in an old cast iron pan over the hobo barrel.
Etymology: Raw (basic, elemental materials) + love (desire, want)
Kitchenminting
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: kit chen mint ing
Sentence: His kitchenminting of gold jewelry into goldingots and other pieces of the stable currency, gold, was a response to the terrible stagflation in the economy. The plastic he used from credit cards, however, had no real “monetary” value. Melting credit cards in the kitchenminting process was symboilic of a return to really valuable forms of wealth, like gold. Tomorrow he would commence kitchenminting silverware into silver coinage.
Etymology: From kitchen (cooking area) and mint (where money is made). Kitchenmints derive gold into gold bars for the wealthy. Kitchenminting among the middleincomers is gaining in popularity; effected by the current economic downturn, families turn to liquifying assets like jewelry to purchase food, clothes, and other necessities.
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COMMENTS:
Melting the coinage was quite an affliction- the words they were melted by one called Splemdiction! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:45:00
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Plunderwear
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pləndərwer
Sentence: Joan inherited some very nice jewelry from her mother. She cherished the memories that it evoked. Her husband only saw it as plunderwear, something to be cashed in at the slightest provocation.
Etymology: plunder (steal goods from (a place or person), typically using force and in a time of war or civil disorder) + underwear (clothing worn under other clothes, typically next to the skin)
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COMMENTS:
I wonder if this is one of Victoria's Secrets? - Mustang, 2009-04-08: 09:44:00
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Preciousmeltalls
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: presh us melt alls
Sentence: The current economic down turn left Rob crash strapped for cash. Thus, unscentimetal Rob was a cold fish on a gold fish. Rob stole his sleeping wife Goldie's gold nose ring, gold ear and nose studs, gold wedding ring, and all her other golden chains, too. His ultimate goald, was to cash in these preciousmeltalls at the smelting jeweler's shop.
Etymology: PRECIOUS METALS, PRECIOUS, MELT, ALL. Precious metals - usually means the precious elements of gold, silver, and platinum. Precious - much loved, highly valued, and worth a lot of money. Melt - to use heat to change from a solid state to a liquid state; a way to liquidate precious metals for cash. All - the whole quantity of things (gold jewelry) involved. /// Unscentimetal is a blending of unscentimental and metal. /// (Ultimate) Goald is a blending of goal and gold.
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COMMENTS:
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-08: 13:20:00
Love it! We are not worthy, you have a AUra! - Nosila, 2009-04-08: 23:29:00
Did Rob live near a silver mine? - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:35:00
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Oldengoldenmolding
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: olden - golden - mold - ing
Sentence: Cleopatra practiced oldengoldenmolding as she collected all the jewels and precious metals of her ancestry; melted them down and sold them for to buy clothes and makeup.
Etymology: Olden, Golden and Molding
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COMMENTS:
very good - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-08: 13:21:00
I bet she even melted the stuff she got from her Mummy! De Nile ain't just a river in Eqypt! Good One, mweinmann! - Nosila, 2009-04-08: 23:25:00
She should've hooked up with Rumplestiltskin! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:36:00
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Ingostalgia
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ing-go-stal-jah
Sentence: Her severe case of ingostalgia resulted in the creation of a new soup recipe, gold bullion mixed with beef bullion - bon appetit!
Etymology: ingot (as in chunk of gold or metal) + nostalgia
Souvulcanization
Created by: garythesnail
Pronunciation: SOO-VUL-CUN-I-ZAH-SHUN
Sentence: Jacob had a souvulcanization to smelt his wife's wedding ring and her bracelet into mush.
Etymology: Souvenir + Vulcanization
Sentimentalsedimented
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: sen-ti-men-tal-sed-i-ment-ed
Sentence: Tiffany Winston couldn't catch her breath and was heart broken, when she realized her husband Harry Winston had "sentimentalsedimented" all of her precious antique gold heirlooms she had inherited from her Grandmother's estate. Tiffany went on to explain, that one single piece of the jewelery he had just "sentimentalsedimented" was valued at over 1.5 million at Sotheby's with what she was willing to part with and had already had it catalogued to be auctioned...but now Harry had turned all of her sentimental jewelry into a glob of sediment worth far le$$ money!
Etymology: Sentimental; Marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism,resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought (a sentimental attachment) or (a sentimental favorite) Sedimented; To settle to the bottom in a liquid,to deposit sediment. (added "ed"); to show the act of melting to achieve a $ediment.
