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.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Meltrinketosis: /mel-TREEN-kit-OH-sis/ Into the mailer we tossed them with glee-
Granny’s old brooch with the fine filagree…
Rings that were crafted when that was an art,
Gifts they intended to mend broken hearts.
Surely we’ll harvest the fair market price-
No one would cheat us- that wouldn’t be nice!
MELTRINKETOSIS runs rampant today…
Don’t weigh your heirlooms- just do as we say.
Gold chains and memories melted away
Returned as a buck so more bills we can pay.
Silver’s re-fashioned with minimal labor-
Into a STUD for the nose of your neighbor.
Etymology: MELt+TRINKET+OSIS= MELTRINKETOSIS…..MELT: to become altered from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat; Middle English, from Old English meltan; akin to Old Norse melta to digest, Greek meldein to melt [12th century]…..TRINKET: a small ornament (as a jewel or ring) often bequeathed by a loved one, perhaps fashioned by the lost-wax process; origin unknown [circa 1527]…..-OSIS: suffix indicating an illness or medical condition, action, process, or condition; New Latin, from Greek -Åsis, from -Å- (stem of causative verbs in -oun) + -sis. Created by: metrohumanx.
Comments on Meltrinketosis:
metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:11:00
WE BUY ANYTHING! Use the postage-paid “greed-pack” and we will return you MAXIMUM MONIES!metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:32:00
If you vote for me, I’ll put us back on the gold standard and i promise to put a chicken in every pot!silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:18:00
A hit with me are your verse and verbotomy … great golden oldies!Jabberwocky, 2009-04-08: 13:16:00
fantastic metroNosila, 2009-04-08: 23:22:00
Metalligent, metalphysical and metalmorphic! Cheers, metalrohumanx!abrakadeborah, 2009-04-09: 06:49:00
YOU are “meltan my trinkets” Metrohumanx~ GOOD one! 🙂
Smeltimental: /smelt im men tal/ 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) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Smeltimental:
metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 01:11:00
At least they didn’t stoop to selling those senseless violins!silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:38:00
Your mind took this golden opportunity, mined the definition and cartoon, and smelted it all down for all it was worth!
Nostalchemy: /nos-tal-kemy/ Times were tough so Sally and Sam resorted to nostalchemy after rummaging through the house to find anything with traces of base metals. They finally drew the line at pulling filled teeth. Etymology: nostalgia (sentimental yearning) + alchemy (medieval chemistry seeking to turn base metals into gold) Created by: Jabberwocky.
Comments on Nostalchemy:
silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:24:00
your reactive attractive verbotomy has great chemistry!Mustang, 2009-04-08: 09:43:00
Great word!Nosila, 2009-04-08: 23:30:00
You turn words into gold!abrakadeborah, 2009-04-09: 06:52:00
ROTFLOL!You always come through with comedy and much to say with so few words~ 🙂
Sentimetallurgy: /sen-ti-met-al-lur-gy/ 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 Created by: mrskellyscl.
Comments on Sentimetallurgy:
Mustang, 2009-04-08: 09:43:00
Very good!Jabberwocky, 2009-04-08: 13:22:00
funny little storymetrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:32:00
Great word AND story!
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