DEFINITION: v. To express your love of nature by covering your lawn with statues, ornaments and other plastic figurines. n. A home which is infested with gnomes, elves, plastic animals, and other lawn ornaments.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Ornafestation: /ôrnÉ™festÄshÉ™n/ Maybe it is a form of separation anxiety or some sort of guilty pleasure but every time Bob needs to leave town on business, Louise feels the need to add to the ornafestation in the front yard. This time during a trip to Kansas she went for the full tacky-pack — the burro with cart complete with gnome driver and 8 dozen plastic flowers. Bob has learned to walk to and from his car looking only at his shoes and enough walkway to keep from tripping. Etymology: ornament (a thing used to adorn something but usually having no practical purpose) + (insects or animals in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease) Created by: artr.
Kitschen: /k itch in/ The food in her kitschen was great, it was the little plaques all over the place with heart warming phrases that were hard to stomach. Etymology: kitchen, kitsch Created by: galwaywegian.
Bricabracken: /BRIK ah brak en/ Sue Veneer likes to bring home something “cute” for her yard from every place she travels. Since her collection represents places from Alaska to Zimbabwe, there is no rhyme nor reason to how things are placed. She also favors “the wild look,” which features a lot of bushes and ground cover, requiring a minimum of upkeep. Sue’s yard is probably the only place in the world where a polar bear towers over a zebra, both standing in a patch of English ivy. Her neighbors find it unusual and call it “the bric-a-bracken,” but consider it much more tolerable than the previous owner’s yard, which most of them remember all too well even though it was almost fifteen years ago. That one featured, um, “vintage,” cars in various states of repair, many up on blocks. Etymology: bric-a-brac (knick-knacks, curios, novelty decorations) + bracken (dense or scrubby shrubbery or undergrowth) Created by: karenanne.
Tchotchkepidemic: /chawtch-key-epp-ih-dem-ick/ The toys that comprised the tchotchkepidemic on her lawn were defaced by the neighbourhood kids. To her horror they drew anatomically correct body parts on the gnomes and smurfs with black Sharpies. Etymology: tchotchke (as in trinket or ornament) + epidemic (as in a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something) Created by: remistram.
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