DEFINITION: v. To exclusively use credit cards, debit cards and/or electronic banking in order to avoid using, or even touching, old fashioned cash. n. A person who never pays for anything using real money.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Debitutante: /deb it tu tant/ Deb was about to launch herself into high society in the hope of meeting an eligible young man, from an equal or better income bracket. Her mother, Mrs. Harry Bottoms Pincher III, of Fifth Avenue, Palm Beach and the Cayman Islands (or Penny, as her society chums and former chorus line peers knew her), had spared no expense in decking out the lovely Deb in a Dior gown and Tiffany jewels for the glittering soiree. Being refined as she was, Penny, had taught young Deb that La Creme de la Societe, to which they belonged, never touched vulgar cash themselves. Why, that was why one employed servants and lawyers. No, Penny had taught young Deb that it was classier to become a Debitutante and carry her boundless debit card with her at all times. It was safer than carrying cash and afterall,it was better to Heir on the side of caution… Etymology: Debutante (a young woman making her debut into society) & Debit (a card which allows you to pay for goods directly from your own bank account; an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing)
Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Debitutante:
metrohumanx, 2009-03-13: 01:46:00
Hahahaha….VERY interesting approach!
Sometimes i worry about you, Nosie!
🙂
Nosila, 2009-03-13: 01:54:00
Thanks, I think, metro…sometimes I worry about you,too, but for different reasons…Cheers!
abrakadeborah, 2009-03-13: 01:59:00
I busted out LAUGHING when I saw Deb! Oh LAWD! I love you all! LOL!
metrohumanx, 2009-03-13: 02:09:00
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle- Don’t worry…give a whistle!
Always look on the sunny side of life.
abrakadeborah, 2009-03-13: 02:37:00
Thank you Nosila 🙂 You are too funny! I’m Cinderfreakinrella on Metrohumanx I’ll be Sendherafreakinfella on yours 🙂
galwaywegian, 2009-03-13: 04:31:00
hehehe
silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:42:00
Wait until Deb and her mom Penny meet Max Out! Bank up the votes for this one!
kateinkorea, 2009-03-14: 02:26:00
Very entertaining!
abrakadeborah, 2009-03-14: 19:19:00
Thanks Nosila,I voted for this word of yours 🙂 You’re hilarious!
Visaonary: /Vee-za-on-ar-ee/ Sam was considered a visaonary who heralded a world full of plastic and credit. Etymology: Visa + visionary Created by: Jabberwocky.
Comments on Visaonary:
galwaywegian, 2009-03-13: 08:15:00
master(ard)ful!
silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:52:00
love the implied ‘now you see it, now you don’t’ by incorporating visionary in your etymology. Excellent create.
Mustang, 2009-03-14: 00:36:00
Brief, concise and to the point. Excellent word.
Plastagogo: /plast-AGOG-oh!
(plastagogian or plastagogite)/ Little Billy was alarmed at the currenseepage from his piggybank.
His eco-rrect teacher gave him a heads-up about the dangers of our vanishing specie, and when his dad told him his chore monies would be direct-deposited into an inaccesible interest-bearing account, he FREAKED! Billy called his dad a NUMISMACRETIN and ran upstairs.
Billy’s dad believed all paper money was unsanitary, and would soon become extinct. He was all PLASTAGOGGO about his custom-imprintable debit card, and vainly tried to pass his enthusiasm on to his child. But Little Billy was at that rebellious age, and vowed in his heart of hearts NEVER to become a PLASTICOINITE like his poor, misguided father. Etymology: PLASTic+AGOG+GOGO= PLASTAGOGO…..PLASTIC: made or consisting of a plastic, capable of being deformed continuously and permanently in any direction without rupture, having a quality suggestive of mass-produced plastic goods; Latin plasticus of molding, from Greek plastikos, from plassein to mold, form…..AGOG: full of intense interest or excitement, bewitched by; Middle French en gogues in mirth….GOGO: marked by spirited or aggressive action, relating to or dealing in popular often speculative investment expected to yield high returns;partly from “a-go-go”, partly from reduplication of 1 “go” 1965……Specie: money in coin; from in specie, from Latin, in kind…..Numismatic: of or relating to currency; French numismatique, from Latin nomismat-, nomisma coin, from Greek, current coin, from nomizein to use, from nomos custom, law Created by: metrohumanx.
Comments on Plastagogo:
metrohumanx, 2009-03-13: 02:01:00
Well, it’s friday here in Pennsylvania.
I’ve gotta go soak abrush, but I can’t wait for the avalanche of verbotomisms to roll in.
Vote early, vote often.
abrakadeborah, 2009-03-13: 02:27:00
Metrohumanx your new word today makes me want to get up and dance! But I can’t right now…but I will soon hopefully… Keep smiling 🙂
“Deb” otherwise known as Cinderfreakinrella
silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:48:00
Many smiles for your great creates this day! Terrific verbotomy!
Jabberwocky, 2009-03-13: 13:27:00
cudos on this one metro
metrohumanx, 2009-03-14: 00:28:00
Thanks, crew! You rock!
kateinkorea, 2009-03-14: 02:22:00
Funny!
Snubbrass: /snub-bra-ss/ Snodgrass, had avoided carrying cash for many years, when in his early childhood he contracted a weird flesh eating disease from some money exchanged in a dirty fish market. Now as he handed, with his skeletal-looking fingers, a debit card to his young son he was shocked when the boy asked. “Dad, why do all the kids at school call me a snubbrass?” Etymology: snub (avoid) + brass (sl. for coins) Created by: petaj.
Comments on Snubbrass:
petaj, 2009-03-13: 06:02:00
In the illustration, Snodgrass’s skeletal fingers are cleverly concealed in fleshy prosthetic gloves.
silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 10:03:00
guess they aren’t penny pinchers! Very clever create!
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