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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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Combuttstion
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: com-butt-styun
Sentence: When your discarded cigarette ends just suddenly burn themselves away to nothing -- that's called spontaneous combuttsion
Etymology: combustion (burn) + butt (cigarette end)
Fagrosion
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"fag-'rO-zh&n/
Sentence: Science has long studied the processes of erosion and corrosion, but the related phenomena of gumrosion and fagrosion are much less well understood.
Etymology: From fag (British slang for cigarette) + -rosion (to gnaw or eat away)
Buttodegradable
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: but oh de gray duh bull
Sentence: The median strip at the stop light has the look of a large ash tray, proof of the fallacy of buttodegradability
Etymology: butt = slang for cigarettes + degradability
Buttsablivious
Created by: lebeast
Pronunciation: butts - ah - bliv- ee- us
Sentence: After the roof top perch caught on fire from her buttsablivious way of thinking, she wondered who would have done such a thing.
Etymology: butts + oblivious
Shoawa
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: sho-wah
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Sho a wat? - egonschiela, 2007-01-25: 16:18:00
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Smotheritigration
Created by: protothor
Pronunciation: smuh-thur-it-uh-gray-shun
Sentence: Lucky that cigarette butts smotheritagrate , or else we might be polluting the environment. =o
Etymology: Smother it; a semi-common command directed at smokers who recently dropped their cigarette butts on the ground. igration; coming from 'desinigration', or the natural process by which things decay.
Biodigarette
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: bīō-d-ig-a-ret
Sentence: Peter threw his fag end to the floor, assuming it would eventually biodegarette.
Etymology: biodegrade + cigarette
Abracadabutt
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ab/ruh/kuh/da/but
Sentence: After his last drag, he flicked his smoke, said abracadabutt and it was gone for good.
Etymology: abracadabra + butt
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COMMENTS:
very funny!!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-25: 09:09:00
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Buttinhole
Created by: jonzerofourteen
Pronunciation: buh-tin-hohl
Sentence: Bob’s determination to give up smoking was admirable. He took a final draw of his cigarette and threw it to the ground theatrically. This, for sure, would be his last buttinhole.
Etymology: Butt (stub of a cigarette) + in (situation or place with respect to space) + hole (an opening through something)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant :) - galwaywegian, 2011-01-14: 04:26:00
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Buttbustion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: but/bust/shun
Sentence: Buttbustion is the naturally occurring process by which cigarette butts magically disappear down sidewalk cracks
Etymology: butt + combustion
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COMMENTS:
A bit too common for my tastes. - protothor, 2007-01-25: 16:47:00
cockup tease is too racy and now buttbustion is too common - can't please everyone protothor - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-25: 18:21:00
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