{"id":1120,"date":"2011-01-18T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2011-01-18T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:00:12","slug":"biodigarette-thank-goodness-these-things-are-biodegradable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Biodigarette: Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>  A &#8220;natural process&#8221; which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. <em>v.<\/em> To clean up someone else&#8217;s butts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/butts.gif\" alt=\"Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biodigarette<\/strong>:  \/<em>b\u00c4\u00ab\u00c5\u008d-d-ig-a-ret<\/em>\/ Peter threw his fag end to the floor, assuming it would eventually biodegarette. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  biodegrade + cigarette <em>Created by:<\/em> CharlieB.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cigracadabra<\/strong>:  \/<em>sigr\u00c9\u2122k\u00c9\u2122dabr\u00c9\u2122<\/em>\/ Too many smokers think that some sort of cigracadabra happens when they toss their spent butts to the ground. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  cigarette (a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking) + abracadabra (a word said by magicians when performing a magic trick) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stubrub<\/strong>:  \/<em>stub-rub<\/em>\/ As the only nonsmoker, George watched the stubrub process in awe, thinking to himself what little it did for the sidewalk. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Stub [the final remnants of a smoked cigarette] + Rub [To remove by pressure and friction] <em>Created by:<\/em> EonaFrae.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Stubrub:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2011-01-15: 07:00:00<\/em> <br \/>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Tobaccgone<\/strong>:  \/<em>to bak gawn<\/em>\/ When Diane DuMaurier met Peter Jackson, it was love at first sight. Their first date was at a Matinee and afterwards they went to the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley. He puffed away, one cigarette after another and seemed to think all the butts would evaporate away in a tobaccgone process.  When she realized he left a mess behind, she ran off with the Marlboro Man. Peter thought that took a lot of Gauloise to do such a thing.  They were last seen trying to Export A Camel. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Tobacco (leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion) &amp; Gone (having all been spent;away;former) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=butts\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=butts<\/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. A &#8220;natural process&#8221; which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else&#8217;s butts. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Biodigarette: \/b\u00c4\u00ab\u00c5\u008d-d-ig-a-ret\/ Peter threw his fag end to the floor, assuming it would eventually biodegarette. Etymology: biodegrade + cigarette Created by: CharlieB. Cigracadabra: \/sigr\u00c9\u2122k\u00c9\u2122dabr\u00c9\u2122\/ Too many smokers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biodigarette: Thank goodness these things are biodegradable!<\/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\/1120"}],"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=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}