DEFINITION: n. A pile of used and discarded tissues; may constitute a bio-hazard. v. To drop a used tissue on to the floor beside your bed or chair, because you are so sick you can barely move.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Inphlegmatory: /in flem a tor ee/ The Fire Marshall was certain to declare that the bedroom floor of Sal Iver’s house was definitely an inphlegmatory risk. Sal had been sick with the flu for 2 days and had neither the skill nor the will to put all his used tissues in a receptacle. His bedroom was the site of much hankie pankie and the normally phlegmboyant Sal was reduced to that of a bronchialbuster who had not lasted long enough to win the big purse. The irony was that 2 days ago, he had planned to phone in sick to play hookey from work. He figured the word Gesundheit meant “serves you right”. All this while his catarrh gently weeps…sniff, sniff! Etymology: Inflammatory (characterized or caused by inflammation;unhealthy, detrimental to health) & Phlegm (Mucous,expectorated matter;saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Inphlegmatory:
XMbIPb, 2010-05-19: 02:48:00
Ack !!
I wanted to use “phlegm” for this one. Let’s see… there are three more body fluids, right? I mean, phlegm, blood, something and something else… Gosh this is going to be difficult.
Loogiellution: /-lu-gi-lu-shen-/ Just dusted off my copy of Galen’s “Physiologia†to figure out the right body fluid to use for this challenge. You know, come up with something phlegmo-hemo-uro-bilious… but “phlegm†is already taken by another player. Then my gaze fell on the old Penguin Classics copy of Aristotle with his four elements… but nothing geo-hydro-pneumo-flammable came to mind. Oh well… I guess, “LOOGIELUTION†is the best I can offer at the moment. Too bad that by now I’m too drunk to use it in a coherent sentence… Sad. Etymology: LOOGIE (n.) (fr. mod. Eng. slang) – snot, phlegm, sputum, booger, “lung cookie;†LUTION (n.; fr. Lat. lutum) – mud, filth (e.g. “pollution”). Created by: XMbIPb.
Mucascade: /myu kas KAYD/ Vy Russ had had the flu for the past three days, and the tissues that she had been dropping in the little trash basket next to the couch had accumulated and begun to overflow. She was so tired and dizzy that she didn’t even feel like emptying the basket when she went to the bathroom, so it had become a mucascade of snot rags tumbling, avalanche-like, to the floor. Too bad she lived alone. Or maybe, good thing she lived alone and no one else had to be subjected to it…. Etymology: mucus + cascade Created by: karenanne.
Comments on Mucascade:
Nosila, 2010-05-20: 00:06:00
Snot bad…
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