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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)
Eaumygod
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: oh maye god
Sentence: "Eaumygod! Water disaster!" Icebergs wreck flotilla in Monaco! full story inside
Etymology: eau as in water! oh my God
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COMMENTS:
luv that first head line! Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:24:00
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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)
Htooeauno
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: aych too o no
Sentence: When the polar icxe caps started melting, everyone, including hydromatists ran around yelling, "htooeauno!
Etymology: H2O - symbol for water & Eau (French for water) & Oh No! (exclamation of disbelief)
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
Articmeltiflow
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Ar-tic-mel-ti-flow
Sentence: Eeeek! Marie-Jacques ran screaming out of her home in her bath towel in a panic from the "articmeltiflow" causing water to gush out of every plumbing fixture in her house! She was feeling the effects of global warming. She knew the temperatures in the Arctic region were rising twice as fast as they are elsewhere in the world and the Arctic ice is melting and causing an "articmeltiflow" so badly that is was bursting pipes and overflowing everywhere! Small wild animals were being forced out of their natural habitat floating into Marie-Jacques's home. It wasn't the "articmeltiflow" that she was so much afraid of, it was all the wild animals scurrying around to make a new home at Marie-Jacques's home!
Etymology: Artic;The Arctic (/ɑɹktɪk/, /ɑɹtɪk/) is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean (which overlies the North Pole) and parts of Canada, Greenland (a territory of Denmark), Russia, the United States (Alaska), Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Melt;the process of heating a solid substance to a liquid. tiflow;(slang);causing water to gush as you flush,brush or shower "Articmeltiflow" is causing all your plumbing to overflow and flooding you out of the house as small wild animals float inside and take over.
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
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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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