Verboticism: Heirnecity
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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Heirloot
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: air-lute
Sentence: Marty had some minor success heirlooting his mother's jewellery, but he was bamboozled how to make a profit out of the antique grandfather clock.
Etymology: heirloom (family treasure handed down from generation to generation) + loot (plunder)
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COMMENTS:
Clever blend and pun! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:26:00
VEEY creative! Good one, petaj! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:31:00
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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.)
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.
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)
Recyclophobia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re-cyc-loh-FO-bya
Sentence: Marshall 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' (return metals etc to their natural state for reuse) and 'phobia' (phobic)(irrational fear)
Sentismeltality
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sent ih smelt al it eee
Sentence: Amazing how quickly sentimentality gives way to sentismeltality once the bear kicks the bulls ass
Etymology: sentimentality, smelt
Jewelleremixedemotions
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: ju/well/ur/ree/mixed/ee/moe/shuns
Sentence: It was with jerwelleremixedemotions that she melted down all her charms.
Etymology: jewellery + re mix + mixed emotions
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
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)
Ingotwetrust
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in got we trust
Sentence: When Jane got home she first noticed that Dick was cooking something putrid. Upon further look, instead she found him smelting all her jewellery and valuables. His ingotwetrust activities however were a waste, as she had long ago copied her jewellery and placed the real McCoys in a bank vault. Dick's cooking smelled more like melting plastic...a recipe for asphyxiation!
Etymology: Ingot (gold bullion in a size convenient for handling) & Wordplay on motto "In God We Trust" (placed on US currency)
