{"id":1464,"date":"2012-05-03T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2012-05-03T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:04:43","slug":"refillaphobe-i-wonder-who-keeps-leaving-these-empties-in-the-fridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1464","title":{"rendered":"Refillaphobe: I wonder who keeps leaving these empties in the fridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To leave a minute quantity of something in a bottle or container. <em>n.<\/em> A person who never finishes off the last bit of milk, mustard or whatever, because they want to leave the job of replacing it to someone else.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/empty.gif\" alt=\"I wonder who keeps leaving these empties in the fridge\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Refillaphobe<\/strong>:  \/<em>re-fill-a-fobe<\/em>\/ Both of my sons are refillaphobes&#8230;.every time I go to get a sip of milk out of the carton, two drops triclke down my frustrated throat. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  refill&#8230;&#8230;self explanatory<br \/>\n&#8220;phobe&#8221; from the word &#8220;phobia&#8221; which is associated with fears of certain actions, or circumstances. <em>Created by:<\/em> logan260.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deplenish<\/strong>:  \/<em>dee-plenish<\/em>\/ Tom refused to devour the dwindling ketchup supply and open the new bottle in the cabinet. Instead, he would deplenish; using the most minute amounts imaginable to flavor his burgers, leaving just enough to make Jan want to repeatedly injure his person.   <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Deny + Replenish <em>Created by:<\/em> dekra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smidgentoad<\/strong>:  \/<em>smi jen tode<\/em>\/ Tony was a smidgentoad.  He left bottles, cans and other food containers with just a smidgen of the goods in them.  He was lazy and figured if he did that, he would never be responsible for cleaning out or buying replacements.  His actions however had left just a smidgen of love left in his girlfriend Maria and she decided to throw him out with all those empty containers. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Smidgen (a tiny or scarcely detectable amount)&amp; Toad (ugly amphibian;derogatory term for a person) &amp; WordPlay on Pigeon-Toed <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emptier<\/strong>:  \/<em>emp tee r<\/em>\/ &#8220;Why is there always an almost empty bottle of something in the fridge, Doug?  Ugh, you are such an emptier!&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Empty <em>Created by:<\/em> Koekbroer.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=empty\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=empty<\/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: v. To leave a minute quantity of something in a bottle or container. n. A person who never finishes off the last bit of milk, mustard or whatever, because they want to leave the job of replacing it to someone else. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Refillaphobe: \/re-fill-a-fobe\/ Both of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Refillaphobe: I wonder who keeps leaving these empties in the fridge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/1464"}],"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=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}