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DEFINITION: A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear.
Verboticisms
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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
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.
Marlborot
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: marl-bo-rot
Sentence: Marlborot is a natural process resulting in a painful death after years of hacking coughs, and chest pains. Unfortunately sufferers of Marlborot also commonly experience a lack of oxygen to the brain. This in turn has resulted in a strange group faith that marlborot is actually the natural biodegradation of cigarette butts.
Etymology: Marlboro (brand of ciggies - Yul said "Don't smoke, whatever you do, just don't smoke") + rot (decomposition)
Tobackgo
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: toe/bak/go
Sentence: As long as you smoke cigarettes made of pure tobackgo they will naturally go back into the atmosphere by natural buttbustion.
Etymology: tobacco + back + go
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COMMENTS:
And all these years I thought it was called "evapbuttration". - Kyoti, 2007-07-30: 09:32:00
I think you're describing Imodium or Peto Bismol - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-30: 12:11:00
oops - should be Pepto - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-30: 12:20:00
Danged silent p - Kyoti, 2007-07-30: 14:09:00
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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"
Nixotine
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: nix-oh-teen
Sentence: he happily dopped his butts on the ground because he knew that thanks to nixotine, it would disappear
Etymology: nicotine, nix
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COMMENTS:
darn silent r - petaj, 2007-07-31: 06:32:00
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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
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
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?