{"id":1055,"date":"2010-10-25T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:00:09","slug":"scentometal-have-you-seen-my-wedding-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Scentometal: Have you seen my wedding rings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> 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. <em>v.<\/em> To cash in something with sentimental value.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/pots.gif\" alt=\"Have you seen my wedding rings?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scentometal<\/strong>:  \/<em>sent\u00c9\u2122metl<\/em>\/ It was bad enough that Henry had insomnia. After being bombarded by at least a dozen late-night \u00e2\u20ac\u009dCash-for-Gold\u00e2\u20ac\u009d commercials he now has scentometal fever. His wife had to put her foot down when he tried to hock her grandmother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dentures. \u00e2\u20ac\u009dI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care that she loves soup, she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gum the rest.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <em>Etymology:<\/em>  scent (a distinctive smell, esp. one that is pleasant) + metal (a solid material that is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivity) from sentimental <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Scentometal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-10-21: 18:23:00<\/em> <br \/>zinc i like it<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Feltchemy<\/strong>:  \/<em>felt kem mee<\/em>\/ Georgia was horrified to come home and find that her husband, Nat had taken all her antique, fine gold jewellery and placed it in a saucepan to try and melt it down into gold ingots. &#8220;What kind of feltchemy are you practising?&#8221; she lamented.  &#8220;Relax, Precious&#8221;, he smirked&#8230;&#8221;I am just cooking up some Karat soup for us&#8221;! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Felt (to feel;to have sensed) &amp; Alchemy (ancient chemistry practice to try and change base metals into gold) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentismeltality<\/strong>:  \/<em>sent ih smelt al it eee<\/em>\/ Amazing how quickly sentimentality gives way to sentismeltality once the bear kicks the bulls ass <em>Etymology:<\/em>  sentimentality, smelt <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingostalgia<\/strong>:  \/<em>ing-go-stal-jah<\/em>\/ Her severe case of ingostalgia resulted in the creation of a new soup recipe, gold bullion mixed with beef bullion &#8211; bon appetit! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  ingot (as in chunk of gold or metal) + nostalgia <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=pots\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=pots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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) Scentometal: \/sent\u00c9\u2122metl\/ It was bad enough that Henry had insomnia. After being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scentometal: Have you seen my wedding rings?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}