Verboticism: Centimetal
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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Sentimetal
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sen-tuh-met-l
Sentence: Times are rough for Tim. He has liquidated a number of his assets just to make ends meet. Today, it's a sentimetal issue. He may be fond of his Olympic gold but it will pay the rent.
Etymology: sentimental (weakly emotional) + metal (any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.)
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
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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Recyclophobia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re-cyc-loh-FO-bya
Sentence: Brandon had always been into recycling for environmental concerns but with the turndown in the economy he had become totally recyclophobic even going so far as to melt down family heirlooms, coin collections, and anything else he thought had even a remote chance of containing precious metals.
Etymology: Blend of recycle and phobia (phobic)
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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Sentimetallurgy
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sen-ti-met-al-lur-gy
Sentence: Pam walked into the kitchen to find Robert busily smelting her precious heirlooms. When she asked what he was doing Robert replied, "You keep complaining that I have no job or ambition,so I've decided to get into sentimetallurgy. That way I can clean out this junk and make cash at the same time." "That's a great idea," Pam said as she reached for Robert's golf trophy.
Etymology: sentimental:romantic, nostalgic + metallurgy: the science of working with or heating elements to give them desired properties
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-04-08: 09:43:00
funny little story - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-08: 13:22:00
Great word AND story! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:32:00
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Sentigoldal
Created by: Bughunt
Pronunciation: sen-tee-gole-dul
Sentence: My father is very sentigoldal. My mother's already lost ten necklaces!
Etymology: SENTI-mental, GOLD, sentiment-AL
Smeltimental
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: smelt im men tal
Sentence: Ronnie was taking a smeltimental journey. He had gone around the house and collected his wife, Julie's and his mother Mabel's old jewellery. His wife would never miss any of it because she never wore it and Mother was no longer somewhere that jewellery wearing was allowed. He threw everything, even pieces with stones and pearls into a big pot of hot water on the stove and started stirring. When his wife Julie came home she was hit with a strange burning odor. When she confronted Ronnie, he told her about his brainstorm. That old jewellery could be melted down into gold bullion and at $884.89 per ounce, they could be squillionaires! Julie blew up and told Ronnie that he should go back to Chemistry class, because gold would not turn to liquid until it reached almost 2000 degrees F! She pulled the pot off the stove, strained the hot metal into a collander and decided that the worse that happened this time was that her jewels got a good cleaning. She was furious, because the jewellery were the last keepsakes of her Mother and Granny and she valued them more than her goofy husband. She took the hot pot and bashed Ronnie on the head! He rubbed the lump on his cranium and he asked her if the Antiques Road Show was coming to town soon? She bashed him again, permanently and remembered the wise words of her dear old Granny, "InGot we trust, no one else!"
Etymology: Smelt (extract metals by heating) & Sentimental (given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality;effusively or insincerely emotional)
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COMMENTS:
At least they didn't stoop to selling those senseless violins! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 01:11:00
Your mind took this golden opportunity, mined the definition and cartoon, and smelted it all down for all it was worth! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:38:00
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Rehashforgold
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: re-hash-4-goald
Sentence: Dylan was sure his rehashforgold would be overlooked by his mother; after all, they were only his Nana's favorite gold earrings that he scrapped to pay off his parking tickets.
Etymology: rehash - to retell or reminisce + cash for gold - shysters that assure you they will send you a fair price for the gold your are trustingly mail to them without prior agreement
Smeltiment
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: smel tim ent
Sentence: Roy surptised Rachel by throwing all her inherited jewellery into a pot on the stove to extract the precious metals. His smeltiment towards her prized antiques quickly turned to confusion. Seems they made fakes in the old days, too and she ended up with a sentimelted blob in her good cooking pots and nothing to remember Grandma by...Roy turned out to be an alchemissed.
Etymology: Smelt (extract metals by heating) & Sentiment (tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion)
