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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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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)
Iceburglary
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: ICE berg ler ee
Sentence: The government has had to impose sanctions against many of the big companies who are contributing most to pollution and CO2 levels, since they don't care if it causes global warming, melting of icebergs, and rising sea levels 50 years from now. Why should they care? None of those people will be around! Basically their actions (or inaction) should probably be termed an iceburglary. Although speculating on future oceanfront properties in the Adirondacks might not be a bad idea....
Etymology: iceberg + burglary
Subterrainingon
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sub-ter-RAIN-ing-on
Sentence: By trying to harvest ice from the arctic and antarctic ice caps to sell as crushed ice to bars around the world, the ice magnates created massive melting resulting in globaldownpours of biblical proportions, with subterraningon, the gradual submergence of nations around the globe, being the result.
Etymology: blend of prefix 'sub' (under), 'terrain' (land expanse) 'rain' and 'on'. Play on the word subterranean....'below the surface of the earth'.
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COMMENTS:
-funny! - splendiction, 2009-03-16: 20:14:00
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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)
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.
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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Byebyepolar
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: biii biii poh lar
Sentence: They said gore was mad, but he proved to be byebyepolar.
Etymology: bipolar, bye bye polar bears
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COMMENTS:
Very clever!
"bye bye polar bears" - sniff :( - karenanne, 2010-09-27: 15:21:00
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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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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