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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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Bioprestidigitation
Created by: hoylus
Pronunciation: bye oh press ti deegee tay schon.
Sentence:
Etymology: prestidigitation is slight of hand as used by magicians, bio suggests natural.
Weedwhomping
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: weed/womp/ing
Sentence: Her red-leather, open-toed pumps with high arch support, although perfect for weedwhomping, did little to hide a heavy-duty case of halitosis.
Etymology: weed = slang expression for a cigarette + whomping = synonymous with stomping it to death without resorting to smoke & mirror techniques
Marlborogenesis
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: mahrl-bore-oh-GEN-uh-sis
Sentence: Thanks to marlborogenesis, the world is filled with little yellow flowers. I try to do my part.
Etymology: Marlboro + (partheno)genesis
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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Fagfairy
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: Fag-fare-ie
Sentence: Appearently, Roger thinks the fag-fairy will visit tonight.
Etymology: Fag (Slang for cigarettes)+fairy (Tooth fairy takes who take away lost teeth.)
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COMMENTS:
good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-30: 15:15:00
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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
Vanash
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: van ash
Sentence: her cigarette butts would vanash in a puff of smoke.
Etymology:
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
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
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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