Verboticism: Buttodegration

'Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!'

DEFINITION: n. A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else's butts.

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Cigarbage

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: see-gar-bage

Sentence: Jonathan inhaled deeply, while his girlfriend complained (again) about the cigarbage on their living floor. He dropped his cigarette to the floor and carefully stubbed it out. Then he turned to her letting out a puff of smoke, and said, "What garbage? I don't see garbage."

Etymology: cigar + garbage

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Concigquence

Created by: Fenners

Pronunciation: con - sig - quence

Sentence: They just don't understand the concigquences

Etymology: consequence + cigarette

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Confagation

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon fag ay shun

Sentence: When Virginia Slims started dating the Marlborough Man (Smoky to his friends), she worried not what would happen after they butted out their emberous reamains. She believed that the natural process of confagation would remove the reminders of their nicotine assignations. She was partly right, as often there would be a fire after they left the area and the coffin nails smouldered and flared up.

Etymology: Conflagration (a very intense and uncontrolled fire) & Fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking)

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Flicknesia

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: flick-nee-shia

Sentence: Bill suffered from flicknesia and thought that his butts would not be litter if he forgot about them.

Etymology: flick + amnesia

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Tobaccgone

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: to bak gawn

Sentence: When Diane DuMaurier met Peter Jackson, it was love at first sight. Their first date was at a Matinee and afterwards they went to the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley. He puffed away, one cigarette after another and seemed to think all the butts would evaporate away in a tobaccgone process. When she realized he left a mess behind, she ran off with the Marlboro Man. Peter thought that took a lot of Gauloise to do such a thing. They were last seen trying to Export A Camel.

Etymology: Tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion) & Gone (having all been spent;away;former)

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Buttodegradable

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: but oh de gray duh bull

Sentence: The median strip at the stop light has the look of a large ash tray, proof of the fallacy of buttodegradability

Etymology: butt = slang for cigarettes + degradability

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Cignorance

Created by: johnnyrockett

Pronunciation: sig-no-rinse

Sentence: His cignorance blocked the mess of butts that littered the floor of his car.

Etymology: Cigarette + ignorance

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COMMENTS:

protothor Perhaps a better pronunciation guide would be 'sig-no-rinse' - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:53:00

Thanks protothor... - johnnyrockett, 2007-01-25: 19:56:00

Hey johnny, Great word! There are a lot of cignorant people hanging around the front door of my office. - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:19:00

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Disintokration

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: disintōkrāshən

Sentence: Just about every car sold in America is equipped with an ash tray. Many go unused because smokers believe in disintokration, that magic process by which their butts, wrappers and even packaging go up in smoke just like the cigs themselves. A quick flick of the wrist and all responsibility is done.

Etymology: disintegration (the process of coming to pieces) + toke (the drawing of a puff from a cigarette or pipe)

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COMMENTS:

Sadly, too true! Good Word. - Nosila, 2009-08-27: 15:21:00

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Marlburrow

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: marl bur roh

Sentence: when the smokers go to sleep, the marlburrow bunny comes out of his marlburrow with his little broom to brush the naughty little butts down to middle earth.

Etymology: marlboro burrow

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Fagfairy

Created by: bondfool

Pronunciation: Fag-fare-ie

Sentence: Appearently, Roger thinks the fag-fairy will visit tonight.

Etymology: Fag (Slang for cigarettes)+fairy (Tooth fairy takes who take away lost teeth.)

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COMMENTS:

good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-30: 15:15:00

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