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DEFINITION: v., To find a lost item immediately after purchasing a replacement. n., An item which is lost and cannot not be found unless a replacement is purchased.
Verboticisms
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Restituition
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: res/ti/tu/i/shun
Sentence: After getting a third and final notice that her tuition, which she was sure she'd paid, was due she sent off another cheque only to learn that it had been cashed twice - what restituition
Etymology: restitution + tuition
Postespialoss
Created by: zxvasdf
Pronunciation: post es pi aloss
Sentence: Johnny was assaulted by a postespialoss and when his wife (didn't he knock her out, haul her to nowhere and put her in a locked chest six feet under the ground?) found him proposing to another woman.
Etymology: Post (after) & espial (taking notice of something) & loss (act or instance of losing)
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COMMENTS:
interesting - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-25: 13:18:00
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Duplocate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dyoop-loh-cayt
Sentence: as soon as i returned from the store i duplocated my ipod
Etymology: duplicate, dupe, locate
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COMMENTS:
That's hard to beat - petaj, 2007-10-29: 04:33:00
Ditto! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-29: 20:07:00
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Gottwoman
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation: got-two-man
Sentence: So you found it,to bad your a gottwoman now.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
slapsunagelpalupanormenclucion - looseball, 2007-10-30: 11:20:00
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Surregain
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /sʌrɪgeɪn/
Sentence: :- "Baby, baby... Don't get mad, this is just a surregain, it always works! I know it can sound incredible, but if I didn't surregain it I would have never got you back! You would had been lost forever... I was desperate..."
Etymology: SURREGAIN. From Surrogate (One that takes the place of another; a substitute) + Regain (To recover possession of; get back again)
Findstitute
Created by: Lidipop
Pronunciation: f-hind-st-eee-toot!
Sentence: to easy my mind from searching obsessively for what i've lost, i'll just have to 'findstitute' my item until it pops up!
Etymology: Find(to encounter/to discover) + substitute(to replace with something that should function the same way)= 'findstitute'
Voodooplicate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: voo/doo/pli/keyt Sentence: The evil spirits always conspire to voodooplicate the item I just purchased to replace the one I just lost and once again because of this mysterious voodooplication I seem to have two of everything I own. Etymology: voodoo
Sentence: It is always with sinister and evil irony that the spirits always conspire to voodooplicate the item I just purchased to replace the one I just lost and because of this mysterious voodooplication I seem to have two of everything I own.
Etymology: VOODOO - verb - from VOODOO (to act upon with magic; magical) + DUPLICATE (to make an exact copy of)
Substibeaut
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sub sti byut
Sentence: When Jackie returned after being shipwrecked for a year and assumed lost at sea, she was surprised to find that Jack had found a substibeaut in her best friend, Jill. Turns out he was a Jack of all trades, because he swapped out Jill later and went back to Jackie!
Etymology: Substitute (a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another) & Beautiful (beaut -an outstanding example of its kind)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176! ~ James'
Today's definition was suggested by MrDave2176. Thank you MrDave2176. ~ James