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DEFINITION: n. A pile of used and discarded tissues; may constitute a bio-hazard. v. To drop a used tissue on to the floor beside your bed or chair, because you are so sick you can barely move.
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Tissidue
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: TISH-i-dyoo
Sentence: You imprison me in the dark recesses of your bags and pockets until I'm ready to be used for your most basic needs. You wipe your filthy hands on me; you spit on me. You drown me in your fetid waste. You despise me, calling me a threat to your environment. You throw me away. But remember it was you who you made me what I am - tissidue - for there was a time when I was a tree.
Etymology: Blend of TISSUE & RESIDUE
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COMMENTS:
Tree mend us. - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-10: 10:46:00
how sad - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-10: 16:58:00
Your sentence reminds me of "The Giving Tree" — albeit a more bitter version... - Tigger, 2008-03-10: 23:24:00
Poignant, yet elementree...where's my tissue? - Nosila, 2008-03-11: 22:36:00
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Tissooze
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: tish/oze
Sentence: Winter! Oh damn winter!! Take me now with your freezing minus 27 celcius, sore throat, aching ears, massive sinus ache, chills!!! Warmth, where is the warmth?!!!! I give up!!!!! Heating pad, neck warmer, not even four blankets help!!!!!! Running nose, rolls of toilet paper resulting in a massive mountain of tissooze surrounding me, burying me, suffocating me, killing me!!!!!!! Take me now wretched winter!!!!!!!! I succumb to you bastard winter!!!!!!!!!
Etymology: TISSOOZE - noun - from TISSUE + OOZE
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COMMENTS:
Sentence, like the nose, drips with your suffering! Clever Creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-02: 10:51:00
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Tocsickwaste
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tok sik way ssst
Sentence: He drifted back into conciousness with the worrying news that the tocsickwaste beside the couch appeared to be moving. thoughts of a new mutant virus were quelled when he noticed the face of his pet chihuahua looking up throught the gunge filled kleenex.
Etymology: toxic waste, sick.
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COMMENTS:
poor chihuahua probably had a very glossy coat after that experience - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-10: 13:28:00
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Tisspew
Created by: zabxuq
Pronunciation: tiss-sp_u
Sentence: The flu was simply too much. Fixing his own lunch was out of the question. With barely enough energy to tisspew, Gil could do nothing but wait for chicken soup reinforcements to arrive under their own power.
Etymology: Tisspew: v. combination of tissue: a thin gauzy paper + spew: eject or cast away.
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COMMENTS:
Souper! - Nosila, 2009-01-02: 18:06:00
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Fengtisshui
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: fang-tissue-e
Sentence: Suffering through the second round of antibiotics, and the fourth week of a sinus infection, Bob, through his serious study of tissue placement, had incidentally become a master of fengtisshui.
Etymology: feng-shui+tissue=fengtisshui
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COMMENTS:
Funny and very fun! Unique choice of words to blend. Ingeniously Well Done! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-10: 23:09:00
Hillariously clever creation! - Tigger, 2008-03-10: 23:20:00
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Viralysis
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: vi-RAL-a-sis
Sentence: Although Kevin was in danger of asphyxiation by tissue, his viralysis was total and he could do nothing more than drop another tissue onto the sodden snotscape.
Etymology: viral + paralysis
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COMMENTS:
Brilliant...quite "snoty" analysis of the "paralysis" :) - kashman, 2008-03-10: 13:00:00
this word really grows on you - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-10: 16:57:00
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Infloorendsza
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/flor/ends/za
Sentence: Josh had learned in his meditation class to let go of problems and let them float away so he put the teaching into practice used infloorendsza to rid himself of his germs carefully wrapped up in tissues.
Etymology: influenza + floor + ends + za (which is sort of like ya)
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COMMENTS:
Serendipsliptissue-ous! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-02: 07:49:00
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Tissueissue
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: TISS-yew-iss-yew
Sentence: Lyndon was feeling rotten all over from the bug he was fighting and though he realized he had a potentially dangerous tissuissue with the growing pile of infectious kleenex he felt too lousy to make the necessary effort to deal with it.
Etymology: Blend of tissue and issue
Kleenexudate
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: clean-ex-you-date
Sentence: Entombed in a layer of his own filthy Kleenexudate, Terry had to be under all that tissue paper and green snot somewhere. The question was who was brave enough to pick through to look for him?
Etymology: kleenex - tissue brand + exudate - fluid from body system, pus.
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COMMENTS:
They may need a terry-picker for that chore. - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-10: 18:26:00
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Snotaclysm
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: snot-a-kliz-uhm
Sentence: Hector's bout with the flu and the resulting tissue pile left his bedroom looking like a total snotaclysm.
Etymology: snot (mucus) + cataclysm (disaster)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James