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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.
Verboticisms
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Concigquence
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: con - sig - quence
Sentence: They just don't understand the concigquences
Etymology: consequence + cigarette
Ashtrayitis
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: ash - tray -itis
Sentence: Lucy's butts flew from her open car window because she suffered from the terrible disease known as ashtrayitis.
Etymology: Ashtray - that thing smokers should use to store their butts in. Itis - inflammation of, as in an allergy.
Fagrosion
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"fag-'rO-zh&n/
Sentence: Science has long studied the processes of erosion and corrosion, but the related phenomena of gumrosion and fagrosion are much less well understood.
Etymology: From fag (British slang for cigarette) + -rosion (to gnaw or eat away)
Buttodegradable
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: but oh de gray duh bull
Sentence: The median strip at the stop light has the look of a large ash tray, proof of the fallacy of buttodegradability
Etymology: butt = slang for cigarettes + degradability
Flicknesia
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: flick-nee-shia
Sentence: Bill suffered from flicknesia and thought that his butts would not be litter if he forgot about them.
Etymology: flick + amnesia
Erastub
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: era/stub
Sentence: John was a smoker, and left his stubs all over the flat. Unfortunately, since the erastub hadn't kicked in yet, he had to clean the floor himself!
Etymology: erase + stub
Buttgone
Created by: marciamellotaco
Pronunciation: B-uh-t-guh-ah-n
Sentence: We always make sure we do a little buttgone after smoking.
Etymology:
Tobaccorrosion
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Toe-back-co-roe-shun
Sentence: Benson said, "Duh! Everyone knows that cigarette ends tobaccorrode into natural substances. That's why the streets are so clean."
Etymology: Tobacco+corrosion. Tobacco: substance used to make cigarettes. Corrosion: dissolution by acid/alkali
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COMMENTS:
American spelling (perhaps more elegant) would be "tobaccorosion". I'd like to acknowledge ErWenn's "fagrosion" etymology which suggested this to me. - Discoveria, 2007-01-25: 09:16:00
Thanks. You got my vote. - ErWenn, 2007-01-26: 00:45:00
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Nicotime
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: nick-oh-TIME
Sentence: Jim tossed his half-smoked Marlboro to the ground and mashed it with the heel of his boot. He detested litter, but of course the cigarette would disappear in the nicotime.
Etymology: nicotine + nick of time
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
