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DEFINITION: A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear.
Verboticisms
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Incigerate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: inn-sig-err-ate
Sentence: Thank goodness for incigerating cigarettes, she thought, now only if they could invent something to make the black sludge in her lungs disappear.
Etymology: incinerate + cig
Stickflicking
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Stik-flik-king
Sentence: Bobby and his buddies had a great time fishing at the lake, but when they got home, they discovered every fish they caught contained several cigarette butts, which made them yet again victims of inconsiderate stickflicking.
Etymology: Stick (cigarette) + flicking (launching a burning cigarette nub from an open car window, boat deck, observation tower, etc...)
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COMMENTS:
now I understand my aversion to smoked salmon - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-30: 11:20:00
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Draggone
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: drag/gone
Sentence: One of the marvels of modern science is the development of the draggone, a cigarette that disappears as soon as the butt is dropped.
Etymology: drag + gone
Osmoksis
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: oz-mohk-sis
Sentence: Thank goodness for osmoksis, otherwise the streets and beaches would be littered with cigarette butts.
Etymology: osmosis, smoke
Ossmokis
Created by: frostycharlie69
Pronunciation: oss-MO-kiss
Sentence: The ciggarette butts dissappeared as if through the process of ossmokis.
Etymology: From "Osmosis" and "Smoke"
Whiftosis
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: wiff TOE sis
Sentence: Whaddya think, they just disappear by whiftosis?
Etymology: from "whiff," a puff of wind or smoke, or an odor; and "-osis," a process.
Vanash
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: van-ash
Sentence: John didn't seem to realize that his partner vanashed their apartment every night. He seemed to feel the butt fairy looked after the mess.
Etymology: vanish + ash
Dicigtegration
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: dihs-sihg-tuh-GRAY-shuhn
Sentence: Alex's attempt at a romantic picnic failed miserably, as his idea of spreading out a picnic blanket collided with the beliefs in dicigtegration of previous picnickers.
Etymology: disintegration + cigarette
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COMMENTS:
Hmm- sorry a little boxlexia. See my comment on the main page. - petaj, 2007-07-30: 03:25:00
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Butbuttgo
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: but-butt-go
Sentence: Butbuttgo is a myth that can easily be disproven with a shovel outside any non-smoking restaurant's front door.
Etymology: "But, the butt (somehow) goes (away)."
Comments:
They really decigrated the spot!
Kyoti - 2007-07-30: 14:10:00
Isn't decigrating when you shred ten blocks of cheese at the same time?