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DEFINITION: n. A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else's butts.
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Buttsumption
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: but-sum-shun
Sentence: If it weren't for buttsumption, the lawn outside the hospital would be made up of cigarette remains entirely.
Etymology: cigraette butt + consumption
Vanash
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: van ash
Sentence: her cigarette butts would vanash in a puff of smoke.
Etymology:
Confagation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon fag ay shun
Sentence: When Virginia Slims started dating the Marlborough Man (Smoky to his friends), she worried not what would happen after they butted out their emberous reamains. She believed that the natural process of confagation would remove the reminders of their nicotine assignations. She was partly right, as often there would be a fire after they left the area and the coffin nails smouldered and flared up.
Etymology: Conflagration (a very intense and uncontrolled fire) & Fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking)
Debuttal
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: dee-but-al
Sentence: Clarence seemed to think his discarded smokes were magically absorbed by nature and was oblivious to the debuttal efforts of those around him.
Etymology: de: prefix meaning to remove or undo. butt: slang for cigarette al: suffix - having the properties or characteristics
Fagistination
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: fag-is-ti-nay-shun
Sentence: Don't worry about finding a bin once you stub them out fagistination will take care of them.
Etymology: fag -colloq. cigarette. istine- from phillistine-someone lacking in refinement. ation- suffix for action or process.
Disintegrette
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: dis in tuh gret
Sentence: I was going to pick up the cigarette butt that my brother so rudely threw on the carpeted floor, but I was surprised when I saw it disintegrette right before my eyes!
Etymology: disintegrate + cigarette
Buttification
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: but-ti-fi-ca-tion
Sentence: Because she loved the park, Norma engaged in buttification every weekend so that visitors, especially the children, wouldn't have to put up with the sights and smells of tobacco waste.
Etymology: beautification: to make or become beautiful + butt: the discarded end of a cigarette.
Concigquence
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: con - sig - quence
Sentence: They just don't understand the concigquences
Etymology: consequence + cigarette
Noifsorbutts
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: no-ifs-or-butts
Sentence: after studying the science behind noifsorbutts, Kevin was suitably satisfied that this process was indeed 'natural' and 'magical' at the same time
Etymology: [cigarette]butts, no ifs or buts
Ashtrot
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: ash-trot
Sentence: With a flick of his wrist, and a quick ashtrot, the cigarette was squished under his foot and gone forever.
Etymology: ashtray, putting out a cigarette butt with the foot