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DEFINITION: v. To increase the world's liquid water supply (and dramatically raise the level of our oceans) by accidentally melting the polar ice caps. n. The rising seas and associated flooding due to melting ice caps.
Verboticisms
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Polarthawgraphy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pole ar thaw gra fee
Sentence: When Jill entered university to study polarthawgraphy, she was confused. She first thought polar ice caps were drinks. She thought placing freezers over the poles would ensure they did not melt away, as she was afraid Santa would drown at the North Pole...
Etymology: Polar (ice caps) & Thaw (melt) & Graphy (suffix indicating an art or descriptive science)
Tipanic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: tīpanik
Sentence: Every report of global warming sends Gloria into a tizzy. She feels like a passenger on the Tipanic except that there may not be an iceberg to run into.
Etymology: Titanic (a British passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when it was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives) + panic (sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety)
Globalwarning
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: glow ball warn ing
Sentence: Globalwarning of rapid carbon release from the earth should encourage measures such as a return to using renewable energy sources such as water power, wind power, even solar power. Certain industries and populations must reduce their carbon emissions, or we will continue to see ocean water levels rise, bizarre weather; and ultimately experience continued loss of animal and human life...leading to extinction.
Etymology: From the words "globalwarming" and "warning". A term that warns that our problem of globalwarming needs immediate attention and change over to using "green", earth-friendly energies. This is our globalwarning!
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COMMENTS:
Really good word. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:37:00
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Aquageddon(ner)
Created by: kalex
Pronunciation: ah-kwa-ged-dun
Sentence: Arks became all the rage after I singlehandedly spurred the melting of the polar ice caps.
Etymology: Aqua-water geddon-suffix associated with apocalypse
Icebergwetus
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: eys berg wet us
Sentence: The rise in oceans due to polar meltdown was setting off bergler alarms in the world. Edna D. World, was so panicked that she told her friends she was suffering from a bad case of icebergwetus. She was in bad need of some glaciation therapy.
Etymology: Iceberg (a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier) Wet Us (get us soaked) and play on iceberg lettuce (lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head)
Bipolaricity
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: b'eye-poh-ler-ih-cih-tee
Sentence: Dr. Arky Bohta had created a safe haven in Savannah, Georgia, for sufferers of what he called Bipolaricity. Since the accidental onset and melting of the two polar icecaps the psychiatrist had been meticulously documenting the increasing mood swings and paranoia of his patients. His theory was that because the human body is more than 85% water the creeping and cruising of encroaching icebergs was the reason. However, on a hot and muggy summer's day, as two ice bergs from the South and North approached Key West and the Mason-Dixon line, he noted there was high and enthusiastic response during a group brainstorming session when one patient proposed brewing and bottling something called "BiPolar Ice Tea."
Etymology: Using BIPOLAR, the psychological term for severe mood disorders with the two (North and South) or bi (from L.) poles
Decapitoolate
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Dee-cap-it-oo-layt
Sentence: After many years of taking this planet for granted, the polar ice caps are melting at a tremendous rate it has come to the point where it is decapitoolate and nothing can be done to stop it.
Etymology: Decapit- to destroy the cap + Too late- un out of time = Decapitoolate
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COMMENTS:
Clever! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 20:06:00
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Hydroflobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hy dro flo bee ya
Sentence: You will know we are suffering from hydroflobia when polar bears and penguins start arriving on one's doorstep, together!
Etymology: Hydro (relating to water) & Flow (the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression) & Phobia (fear of something)
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COMMENTS:
Nice triple, N!
...but i expected more Nosila filla!
Well done. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-16: 01:50:00
loveit! - galwaywegian, 2009-03-16: 05:04:00
Gets high marks here! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:22:00
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Ohnoah
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: ooo - no - ah
Sentence: Ohnoah, Solomen yelled, the polar ice caps are melting. I better start building an Ark.
Etymology: Oh and Noah plus Oh No!!
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COMMENTS:
Oh! So Noahtable! Puntastic, clever, delightful. Super create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:22:00
Good one! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:24:00
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Capqua
Created by: Annette
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The capqua flow is even larger than anticipated.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Good start...I like the word. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:30:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-03-16: 17:55:00
Everyone did such great creating today! Every sentence and verbotomy was a delight to read!
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James