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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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Decaplidtate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: dee-CAP-lyd-tayt
Sentence: With perverse joy, Lucinda would secretly decaplidtate various salad dressing bottles in the fridge and would wait for some hapless soul to shake them and would squeal with delight at the messy outcome.
Etymology: Blend of 'decapitate' (remove the head of a person or critter) and 'lid' (cap or top for a container)
Condimark
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: CON-de-mark / tom-FOOD-er-ee
Sentence: Kevin was often the condimark of such tomfoodery as the loose salt shaker or the mustard in the ketchup bottle.
Etymology: condiment+mark (the target of malice) / tomfoolery + food.
Splattermine
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈsplædɚˌmaɪn/ /splatter-mine/
Sentence: He hated April Fool's Day as his girlfriend would always booby-trap the entire house, filling it with splattermines, powdersnares, gluetrops, tapewires, squirtbombs, featherfalls, boobie traps, stinkpits, and pie cannons.
Etymology: From splatter + mine (as in the explosive device)
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COMMENTS:
No, I did not misspell "booby trap". A "boobie trap" is something else entirely. I'll leave it up to you to decide what it actually is. - ErWenn, 2007-10-23: 12:12:00
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Tophersplat
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Top-her-splat
Sentence: Paulie Prankster always set his wife up with a tophersplat every time she used Verbotomy Salad Dressing.
Etymology: Top- a lid of a container. Her- Female. Splat- a wet slapping sound.
Fliddle
Created by: lawlore
Pronunciation: flid-l
Sentence: I loved my girlfriend, but she had so many annoying habits. I got so sick of her fliddling every time we went out to dinner- she thought it was sooooo funny, but I think she just had shares in my dry cleaners.
Etymology: Portmanteau of fiddle (v., in the sense of "to interfere or play with") and lid (n., the top of a container)
Seasonfling
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: see/zon/fling
Sentence: "Would you care for a little seasonfling on your salad?" asked the perfect hostess as she accidentally spewed the entire bottle of salad dressing all over her guests.
Etymology: seasoning + fling
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COMMENTS:
Great! - TJayzz, 2008-09-19: 09:57:00
Sounds like a salad tossin' spring break - zxvasdf, 2008-09-21: 21:22:00
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Howgrossman
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: howww growww smann
Sentence: Her frenzied shaking of the howgrossman bottle left thousand island dressing dressing the island in the kitchen
Etymology: how gross lloyd grossman sauce
Sneaksauce
Created by: mayblossom
Pronunciation: snee-k-sauce
Sentence: exmple:"ahh! Helen left the ketchup sneaksauced again!"
Etymology: when sneaky people tamper with the sauces
Salambush
Created by: mustkeepsanity
Pronunciation: Sa-lam-bush
Sentence: Carmen found a salambush waiting for her in the kitchen; the lid on the salad dressing looked screwed on but wasn't. Was it an accident, or was someone at the party deliberately trying to stain her?
Etymology: Salad and Ambush
Capunked
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ka/puhngk/d
Sentence: Jeremy capunked three different people at dinner last night leaving ketchup, mustard and oil and vinegar on the walls, ceiling and floors, not to mention his victims.
Etymology: CAPUNKED - verb - from CAP (a close-fitting covering for a bottle, or jar) + PUNKED (to "get" someone in a practical joke; someone caught unaware in a practical joke)
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