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DEFINITION: v. tr. To obsessively carry a water bottle always by one's side, regardless of how inconvenient, unnecessary, or impolite it may be. n. A person who constantly sips, sucks and gulps at a water bottle, fearing death by dehydration.
Verboticisms
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Aquasessive
Created by: leegro
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COMMENTS:
Wish you had finished and given us a sentence and etymology. Your verboticism is good, but it would be better if you polished it off with the rest! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 21:04:00
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Eviannoying
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: ay-vee-on-oy-ing
Sentence: Everyone stared at Kate as she indulged her eviannoying habit of consistent hydration during the middle of Sunday mass.
Etymology: Evian: popular bottled water brand + annoying
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COMMENTS:
Great etymology. You captured the unnecessary and impolite aspects of the definition swimmingly! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:16:00
I can just imagine 'Kate' trying to refill from the baptismal font. - Tigger, 2008-02-21: 23:25:00
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Dampire
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation: dam-PY-er
Sentence: "I vant to suck your Aquafina," drooled the dampire.
Etymology: damp + vampire
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COMMENTS:
Another roaringly funny creation! Terrifyingly Inegenious! Extraordinarily Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 02:10:00
Hah! - ErWenn, 2008-02-21: 08:55:00
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 13:30:00
Hysterical word! - Tigger, 2008-02-21: 22:44:00
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Perrieritate
Created by: doseydotes
Pronunciation: pair-ee-ay-i-tate, or alternatively, pair-ee-ear-i-tate
Sentence: Bob's constant slurping from his water bottle in Tiffany's so perrieritated Meg that she finally cried out, "Give me that, you perrieritant!"
Etymology: Perrier + irritate
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COMMENTS:
So good, but I saw it so late! I wish I had three votes! It's Great! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 20:36:00
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Hydrogents
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: high dro jents
Sentence: Freddie always thought himself as one of life's hydrogents. He enjoyed his bottle of water everywhere and while recycling 64 ounces of the fluid behind a tree in the park, accidentally exposed himself to a policeman. It was then he realized that you don't buy the bottle of water, you only rent it. It was also then that he finally realized why his co-workers nicknamed him Liberace...because he was the peeanist in the group!
Etymology: hydrogen (H2O) & gentleman (man of refinement)
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COMMENTS:
Very elegant! - but what about people with different hydrogenitalia? (And what about that Oxygen atom?) Nevertheless, your snazzy creation snares my vote. - Maxine, 2008-02-21: 08:14:00
Also a great pun on the word hydrojets! A water-deflying peeanist escaping from the cops! Excellent humor! Extraordinary verbot! Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:38:00
Cheers, Maxine & silveryaspen! It is the origin of the phrase: "Water you in for"? - Nosila, 2008-02-21: 19:56:00
You're on a roll! When it come to word fun ... your tops! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 21:09:00
Takes one to know one...must be the lunar eclipse/full moon! - Nosila, 2008-02-22: 23:55:00
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H2overdose
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: aych-too-oh-ver-dohss
Sentence: my friends ended up having to hold an intervention to stop me from H2Overdosing
Etymology: H2O, overdose
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COMMENTS:
OK! P+! (bad pun on pee plus)! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:10:00
I'm glas you finally dried out - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 13:35:00
oops that should be glad - I guess I was thinking of glass - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 13:36:00
I try your approach, but found it difficult. Best I could come up with was., "H2osis" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-22: 00:16:00
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Aquafinal
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: a-kwa-feen-ul
Sentence: Joe was aquafinal, fearing death by dehydration so much that he eventually made a portable glass tank to swim in 24/7, therefore not interfering with his personal life.
Etymology: a play on the popular water brand Aquafina.
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COMMENTS:
What a thought! Extraordinarily Clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 20:53:00
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Hydroramus
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: Hii-droo-raa-mis
Sentence: Leave your own water bottles behind, we are not hiking, so don't be a hydroramis.
Etymology: hydro + ignoramus
Suckee
Created by: pipitblog
Pronunciation: /sa-kee/
Sentence: The dead victim had been sucking a water bottle when the investigators arrived on the scene. They also couldn't quite miss the numerous water bottles on the kitchen sink and the boxes of mineral water stacked on one side of the kitchen wall. They believe the man was a suckee. However, two sets of fingerprints were lifted off from the bottles. One belonged to the victim and the other to an unknown person.
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COMMENTS:
He definitely looks like a suckee - bookowl, 2008-02-21: 11:00:00
Stirs the imagination! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:22:00
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Evapophobia
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/vap/o/foh/bee/uh
Sentence: Donnie was left locked in his car seat in 100 degree weather on numerous occasions by his parents when he was a toddler. As a result, he has a severe innate case of evapophobia and cannot be in any closed space without a water bottle, a sweat band and an ax.
Etymology: evaporation + phobia
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COMMENTS:
Clever! - ErWenn, 2008-02-21: 08:55:00
Meaning is eva-clear (ever clear)! Oops! That's a totally different libation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:44:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Maxine. Thank you Maxine. ~ James
Mustang - 2008-02-21: 00:39:00
Aquamaniac
ErWenn - 2008-02-21: 08:53:00
I've spent most of my life in the desert (16 years in Nevada and 8 in Arizona), so where I come from, this sort of behavior is just common sense.
Jabberwocky - 2008-02-21: 09:12:00
I like the picture today James - it's closer to a cartoon
Thanks Jabberwocky. I'm having a little fun with the photos -- just to keep them light. And by the way, we're floating in great words today. Obviously everyone here is over-hydrated. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-02-21: 13:54:00
Every day there are so many brilliant and funny creations! Especially so today! Kudos to all you verbotomists!
silveryaspen - 2008-02-21: 14:02:00
You and your picture cartoons inspired a new definition submission today, James!
Hey Silvery, thanks for the definition! I was wondering what I was doing... So I'm glad that you have defined it. And thanks for all the creative energy which you are sharing with everyone! ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-02-21: 21:18:00
Chuckling! I don't think I knew what I was doing by submitting that definition!
silveryaspen - 2008-02-21: 21:21:00
Ahhhh! But Maxine knew what she was doing with her definition today! You really inspired some great creates! Kudos for coming up with this one!