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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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Greennose
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: green - no - s
Sentence: Being the greennose that Bill was, he approached Matilda and asked if he could dispose of her used Soda Can after lunch in an ecologically correct collection device. He did this, not because he really cared about recycling but because he knew that Matilda cared very much about the green movement and she happened to be the hottest chick in the office.
Etymology: green + brown nose
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Nosila, 2009-07-14: 22:05:00
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Greenwannabee
Created by: queeny
Pronunciation: green wanna be
Sentence: the dude is SUCH a greenwannabee, posing like he knows how to recycle, pleaze
Etymology:
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)
Opporgreenistic
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: op - per - green - is - tik
Sentence: Simon showed opporgreenistic behavior by mentioning all of his "green" habits around attractive women that he thought to be ecologically motivated. He would tell half-truths and green lies just to impress them.
Etymology: opportunistic (taking advantage of situations that arise; said of people who will take advantage of situations to advance their own interests, without regard for principles), green
Specoseduction
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: speek-oh-sed-uk-shun
Sentence: his mastery of specoseduction turned his rivals green with envy
Etymology: speak + eco + seduction
Cubicgreenonia
Created by: lauriern
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Roger is a cubicgreenonia, he thinks by acting like he cares for the environment he is just like me. I recycle and he doesn\'t know the difference between paper and plastic!!
Etymology:
Greeneer
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: grēnēn
Sentence: Bruce tried his best to look eco-friendly. The Green Now club had some of the nicest-looking co-eds on campus. Sally saw through his greeneer the first time he attended a club meeting, driving up in his H2. It didn't help his cause that he brought a round of coffee for each of the members in styrofoam cups.
Etymology: green (eco-friendly) + veneer (an attractive appearance that covers or disguises someone or something's true nature or feelings)
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COMMENTS:
subtle - nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-14: 12:17:00
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Grasskisser
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was such a grasskisser that he put his pesticide bottles in the bottom of the recycle bin and covered them with soy milk cartons
Etymology: grass + ass kisser
Ecoboost
Created by: bjorn
Pronunciation:
Sentence: 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.
Etymology: ecological + ego boost
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.
Verbotomy - 2009-07-14: 00:05:00
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James
Verbotomy - 2009-07-14: 10:35:00
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