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DEFINITION: A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear.
Verboticisms
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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)."
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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Incignito
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: in-SIG-nee-toe
Sentence: Bob believed in reintarnation:tars and toxin had to go somewhere. Whenever he stomped on a fag-end with his shoe, biodegradation seemed to magically occur, or it must have become incignito. He supposed it was some part of the mystery of life's ongoing cycle. Bob felt proud for he was sure that he was taking cignificant steps in environmental care.
Etymology: Play on "incognito".
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
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.
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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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)
Comments:
petaj - 2007-07-30: 03:22:00
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?