DEFINITION: v. To increase the world’s liquid water supply (and dramatically raise the level of our oceans) by accidentally melting the polar ice caps. n. The rising seas and associated flooding due to melting ice caps.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Aquament: /ah-kwa-ment/ Hilda was relieved she didn’t need plastic surgery to aquament her apartment. Etymology: aqua + augment Created by: remistram.
Tipanic: /tīpanik/ Every report of global warming sends Gloria into a tizzy. She feels like a passenger on the Tipanic except that there may not be an iceberg to run into. Etymology: Titanic (a British passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when it was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives) + panic (sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety) Created by: artr.
Icebergwetus: /eys berg wet us/ The rise in oceans due to polar meltdown was setting off bergler alarms in the world. Edna D. World, was so panicked that she told her friends she was suffering from a bad case of icebergwetus. She was in bad need of some glaciation therapy. Etymology: Iceberg (a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier) Wet Us (get us soaked) and play on iceberg lettuce (lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head)
Created by: Nosila.
Byebyepolar: /biii biii poh lar/ They said gore was mad, but he proved to be byebyepolar. Etymology: bipolar, bye bye polar bears Created by: galwaywegian.
Comments on Byebyepolar:
karenanne, 2010-09-27: 15:21:00
Very clever!
“bye bye polar bears” – sniff 🙁
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