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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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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
Buttbustion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: but/bust/shun
Sentence: Buttbustion is the naturally occurring process by which cigarette butts magically disappear down sidewalk cracks
Etymology: butt + combustion
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COMMENTS:
A bit too common for my tastes. - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:47:00
cockup tease is too racy and now buttbustion is too common - can't please everyone protothor - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-25: 18:21:00
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Buttodegration
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: butt-O-dE-grAde-tion
Sentence: Jill relies on natures buttodegradetion to take care of her ciggarette butt as she tosses it on the floor and then begins to do her dance on it.
Etymology: butt/biodegrade/degrade
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COMMENTS:
- toadstool57, 2007-01-25: 08:22:00
The spelling should be buttodegradetion. I can't seem to change it - toadstool57, 2007-01-25: 08:24:00
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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
Dislittigation
Created by: santasassassin
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: The taking away of litter.
Cigracadabra
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sigrəkədabrə
Sentence: Too many smokers think that some sort of cigracadabra happens when they toss their spent butts to the ground.
Etymology: cigarette (a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking) + abracadabra (a word said by magicians when performing a magic trick)
Fagic
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: fadge ick
Sentence: and as if by fagic it was stuck to the bottom of her shoe and Mary thought it had disappeared.What she forgot to notice was that her shoes had been slowly getting taller and now had a 3 inch platforms of butts.
Etymology: from fag an English word for a cigarette and magic
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COMMENTS:
This made me laugh. I think the sentence could use a bit of work, but it's a great word. - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:50:00
Yeah, it is great word! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 00:52:00
English born and bred but still I can't get a hold of the language properly. There is no hope for me as a writer. - erasmus, 2007-01-26: 04:05:00
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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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Shoawa
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: sho-wah
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Sho a wat? - egonschiela, 2007-01-25: 16:18:00
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Concigquence
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: con - sig - quence
Sentence: They just don't understand the concigquences
Etymology: consequence + cigarette