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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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Slimebomb
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sligh mmmmmmmmmm boh mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Sentence: The recently detonated slimebomb mocked her, Paul Newman grinning as the goo slid down his chin
Etymology: timebomb, slime
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COMMENTS:
great visual - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-19: 09:29:00
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Maisnonaaaaghs
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: may-non-aaaaaz
Sentence: I have some vinregrets, but listening out for the maisnonaaaaghs always cracks me up, when I've carefully sabotaged the condiments.
Etymology: mayonnaise + mais non (fr. but no, exclaimed loudly, followed by) aaaaaghs
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COMMENTS:
aaaaghs - good word petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-23: 12:27:00
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Splattermine
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈsplædɚˌmaɪn/ /splatter-mine/
Sentence: He hated April Fool's Day as his girlfriend would always booby-trap the entire house, filling it with splattermines, powdersnares, gluetrops, tapewires, squirtbombs, featherfalls, boobie traps, stinkpits, and pie cannons.
Etymology: From splatter + mine (as in the explosive device)
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COMMENTS:
No, I did not misspell "booby trap". A "boobie trap" is something else entirely. I'll leave it up to you to decide what it actually is. - ErWenn, 2007-10-23: 12:12:00
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Saucerpise
Created by: sallybeth
Pronunciation: saw-ser-pie-se
Sentence: Damn! He saucerpised me again
Etymology: sauce + surprise
Condement
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: kän-dɪ-mənt
Sentence: Even the word condement felt slippery in her brain as she fell victim to the unyielding ketchup.
Etymology: condiment (topping or dressing) + dement (to make insane)
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COMMENTS:
Not to mention "con", as in to fool someone. - artr, 2013-01-08: 07:16:00
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Capunked
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ka/puhngk/d
Sentence: Jeremy capunked three different people at dinner last night leaving ketchup, mustard and oil and vinegar on the walls, ceiling and floors, not to mention his victims.
Etymology: CAPUNKED - verb - from CAP (a close-fitting covering for a bottle, or jar) + PUNKED (to "get" someone in a practical joke; someone caught unaware in a practical joke)
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COMMENTS:
CAPUNKED: A Mob Hit. What Al Capone's show would have been called. - zxvasdf, 2008-09-21: 21:24:00
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Condimark
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: CON-de-mark / tom-FOOD-er-ee
Sentence: Kevin was often the condimark of such tomfoodery as the loose salt shaker or the mustard in the ketchup bottle.
Etymology: condiment+mark (the target of malice) / tomfoolery + food.
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)
Kapsplatter
Created by: Chickp
Pronunciation: Cap/splatter
Sentence: The lid was just loose enough that I was kapsplattered with Thousand Island Dressing when I shoke the bottle
Etymology: Cap+splatter
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