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DEFINITION: v., To carefully place a lid on a bottle, especially a salad dressing bottle, so that it appears closed and will not spill unless the bottle is moved or shaken. n., A bottle which has been prepared in such a manner.
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Haspewedu
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation: Ha-spewed you
Sentence: She fell again for the Haspewedu bottle.
Etymology:
Flimflamcap
Created by: Lecroan
Pronunciation: flim-flam-cap
Sentence: i was totally flimflamcapped by Gerald last night, my favourite sweater smells like chutney now.
Etymology: latin-segunda-greek origin
Heinzed
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Hi-nzzzz'd (something like that)
Sentence: Shaking the bottle, Lilly was about to taste the 58th variety ... SPLAT! She'd been Heinzed.
Etymology: Heinz - The sauce manufacturer
Saucerpise
Created by: sallybeth
Pronunciation: saw-ser-pie-se
Sentence: Damn! He saucerpised me again
Etymology: sauce + surprise
Vinairegrette
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vin eh ree gret
Sentence: Lettuce reinact the crime. Rosie Roquefort had gone to the fridge cos she wanted to romaine slim by eating a healthy salad. She combined the vegetable ingredients and tossed them into the salad bowl. She retraced her steps back to the fridge to get a bottle of salad dressing. From the array in the door, she pondered whether to pick Paul Newman or something more Krafty as her choy-ce, checking for expiry dates. She picked a bottle of vinaigrette and took it over to shake and pour over her salad. Only she had picked a bottle of vinairegrette instead... because when she tried to shake it, the entire contents of the full bottle sprayed all over her, her kitchen and everything in it. The Usual Suspect, her husband, Basil Roguefort came to mind. Her suspicions were confirmed when she spotted him rolling on the dining room floor with laughter and the video camera in his hand. The beet cobbs would turnip later when she caught Basil and tried to artichoke him. The CSI(Criminal Salad Investigators) measured the spatter patterns and chard the trajectories. Basil was collard when his fingerprints were found all over the bottle and lid of the dressing. He was charged with bottle-ism, a rare form of vandalism involving bottles. Rosie was charged with attempted manslawter. When the case came to court, Rosie beet the wrap because the vegetarian judge thought she got a raw deal. The judge tossed out the salad case, as there was mushroom for doubt. Rosie was later featured on the Okra Winfrey show and has now optioned her life story in a book called "Salad Days"...she will never have to earn a celery again. Basil romaines in custody where he has found Judaism and plans to become a kohlrabi.
Etymology: Vinaigrette (a salad dressing with oil and vinegar as well as mustard and garlic) & Regret (sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment)
Shimmysaucivate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: shim-ee-saws-eh-vayte
Sentence: Her hair stylist couldn't remove the orange-red stain from her hair which was due to the Russian salad dressing she had shimmysaucivated all over her hair the day before.
Etymology: shimmy + sauce
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COMMENTS:
saucivate sounds great on its own but the sauce gives it a bit more pizzaz - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-23: 16:10:00
thanks, I had considered switching it around to saucyshimmivate but it sounded like some sort of dance move from the 1950's... - remistram, 2007-10-24: 09:43:00
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Condement
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: kän-dɪ-mənt
Sentence: Even the word condement felt slippery in her brain as she fell victim to the unyielding ketchup.
Etymology: condiment (topping or dressing) + dement (to make insane)
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COMMENTS:
Not to mention "con", as in to fool someone. - artr, 2013-01-08: 07:16:00
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Hovercaped
Created by: Lidipop
Pronunciation: huv-er-kap-ed
Sentence: when she left the table, she secretly 'hovercaped' the bottle & "forgot" it behind for someone else to grab! :)
Etymology:
Acciwaitohappen
Created by: hiladizzle
Pronunciation: axi-wait-oo-happen
Sentence: The way that bottle is sitting is an acciwaitohappen.
Etymology: Derived from the phrase "accident waiting to happen".
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Definitely Krafty behaviour!
remistram - 2007-10-23: 09:52:00
I had to marry the loose lidder...I'm a shake first, tight lidder thus the birth of this definition.
Time to throttle the bottler? ~ James
galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:29:00
galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:30:00
very high standard so far today!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James