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DEFINITION: v., To carefully place a lid on a bottle, especially a salad dressing bottle, so that it appears closed and will not spill unless the bottle is moved or shaken. n., A bottle which has been prepared in such a manner.
Verboticisms
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Faketite
Created by: KenM2
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He carefully performed faketite on the bottle, then hid in the back to watch the victim.
Etymology: Fake+Tight
Shakenfake
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: shake-en-fake
Sentence: That Bob, such a wisecapper! He would shake-n-fake every bottle in the house, right after replacing the sugar with salt.
Etymology: Shake 'n' Bake, fake
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COMMENTS:
Nice word, who do those wisecappers think they are anyway!!! - pungineer, 2007-10-23: 08:02:00
They're all screwed loose. - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-23: 11:54:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-23: 12:11:00
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Tophersplat
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Top-her-splat
Sentence: Paulie Prankster always set his wife up with a tophersplat every time she used Verbotomy Salad Dressing.
Etymology: Top- a lid of a container. Her- Female. Splat- a wet slapping sound.
Caesarprise
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: see-sar-prize
Sentence: Looking at the thousand island covered walls, Dean knew that Marie had left him a Caesarprise with his salad for lunch today.
Etymology: Caesar + surprise
Screwictim
Created by: Osmosis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After the Wishbone salad dressing exploding on her, Mary became enraged at being the latest screwictim of her husband's pranks.
Etymology: Screw + victim
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COMMENTS:
Typo: should be "exploded" instead of "exploding" - Osmosis, 2007-10-23: 22:06:00
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Shookenfreude
Created by: pungineer
Pronunciation: Shoe/ken/froy/duh
Sentence: Part of the Nazis' dastardly masterplan to conquer America during WW2 was to spread confusion and terror across the land by recruiting waitresses to act as Shookenfreuders
Etymology: Shook (as in all shook up) + Schadenfreude (to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others mwah ha ha ha etc)
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COMMENTS:
now that's clever!! - libertybelle, 2007-10-23: 09:14:00
Thanks, i'm liking yours too, sounds more exciting than a caesar salad somehow.. - pungineer, 2007-10-23: 09:19:00
Thanks, i'm liking yours too, sounds more exciting than a caesar salad somehow.. - pungineer, 2007-10-23: 09:26:00
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Bleusneeze
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bloōsnēz
Sentence: Bill thought he’d play his famous bleusneeze prank on his new girlfriend, leaving the cap loosened on the bottle of salad dressing so that she would spray it all over herself when she shook it. The joke was just as funny (or funnier) when she reached for the bottle, tipped it over and spilled the contents in Bill’s lap. Unsure if she did it on purpose or not, he quietly screwed the lids back on the salt and pepper shakers.
Etymology: bleu cheese (cheese containing veins of blue mold, such as Gorgonzola and Danish Blue) + sneeze (make a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth due to irritation of one’s nostrils)
Fliddle
Created by: lawlore
Pronunciation: flid-l
Sentence: I loved my girlfriend, but she had so many annoying habits. I got so sick of her fliddling every time we went out to dinner- she thought it was sooooo funny, but I think she just had shares in my dry cleaners.
Etymology: Portmanteau of fiddle (v., in the sense of "to interfere or play with") and lid (n., the top of a container)
Decaplidtate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: dee-CAP-lyd-tayt
Sentence: With perverse joy, Lucinda would secretly decaplidtate various salad dressing bottles in the fridge and would wait for some hapless soul to shake them and would squeal with delight at the messy outcome.
Etymology: Blend of 'decapitate' (remove the head of a person or critter) and 'lid' (cap or top for a container)
Capfoon
Created by: leechdude
Pronunciation: cap-foon
Sentence: Susan put the glass ranch dressing in a capfoon way which resulted in having to call a maid.
Etymology: cap (lid), foon (just made it up)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Definitely Krafty behaviour!
remistram - 2007-10-23: 09:52:00
I had to marry the loose lidder...I'm a shake first, tight lidder thus the birth of this definition.
Time to throttle the bottler? ~ James
galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:29:00
galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:30:00
very high standard so far today!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James