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DEFINITION: n. A person who pretends to be green because they think global warming is hot. v. To name-drop green status symbols in a shallow attempt to attract comely green people.
Verboticisms
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Greengadfly
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: green/gad/fly
Sentence: He knew he had met his match when he encountered the leaf-lorn "Greengadfly" as he pitched his woo in the curbside recycle bin.
Etymology: although the origin of the word dates back to the time when a "fly bit the cattle", today in our politically-correct environment it is more closely associated with vagarious, vanity-conscious vegans
Congreenient
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: con/green/eee/ent
Sentence: Sam was a congreenient environmentalist who stashed his gas guzzler in the garage and got out his bike when the female branch of 'friends of pure air' cycled by.
Etymology: con + green + convenient
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COMMENTS:
Darn those gas guzzlers! :-) - artr, 2009-07-14: 15:46:00
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Ecologeezer
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: eko lo gee zer
Sentence: Stan was a real ladies' man at the Rio di NoHairo Senior's Home. He'd join whatever club there was going to meet up with the cute divorcees and rich widows. He joined the Gray But Green Club and pretended to care about recycling, air quality and saving the Earth. In reality, he was just an ecologeezer looking to get some quick action before the Earth really did end!
Etymology: Ecology (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment;the environment as it relates to living organisms) & Geezer (a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric)
Gorestanding
Created by: OldEnglish
Pronunciation: GORE-stand-ing
Sentence: Although he used "An Inconvenient Truth" as his "Player's Handbook," somehow Shelby always avoided being accused of Gorestanding.
Etymology: Al Gore + grandstanding
Ingreentiate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: in-green-chee-ate
Sentence: Armand tried to ingreentiate himself with the hot bunny hugger who moved in next door by wearing a Save-the-Whales t-shirt to the neighborhood block party.
Etymology: ingratiate: pander to; suck up to + green
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COMMENTS:
like it - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-14: 12:18:00
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Ecotunist
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ek/oh/toon/nist
Sentence: Many multinational corporations are merely ecotunists in an attempt to score points with young environmentalists.
Etymology: ecological + opportunist
Ecobitionist
Created by: alecstevenson
Pronunciation: Eco-bi-tion-ist
Sentence:
Etymology: Eco + exhibitionist
Enviromench
Created by: deadpanwalking
Pronunciation: en-VI-ro-mench
Sentence: When he winked when he told me he'd like to show me his Prius, I knew he was an enviromench.
Etymology: Environment + Mench
Envirostaticize
Created by: courtney0916
Pronunciation: en-vyr-o-stat-uh-size
Sentence: Carmella was not wooed when Hector attempted to envirostaticize her with his energy conserving material possessions.
Etymology: enviroment + status
Comments:
- 2006-11-13: 07:11:00
How true. Green is the new status symbol. Every frigging celebrity is now wrapped in a fig leaf.
queeny - 2006-11-13: 14:11:00
love this word enviromench . hey, you guys behind the curtain, I want to change my vote.
- 2006-11-13: 14:11:00
Great sentence deadpanwalking: "When he winked when he told me he'd like to show me his Prius, I knew he was an enviromench."
- 2006-11-13: 14:11:00
And this one is funny too -- Even Larry David needs to give himself an ecoboost every now and then, as he so valiantly attempted when he tried to chase down his fellow Prius driver so he could greet him as a fellow Prius driver.
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