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DEFINITION: v. To compulsively wash and excessively reuse "disposable items", like paper cups, plastic utensils or kleenex tissues. n. An obsessive compulsion to reuse disposable items, often combined with a disposal inhibition.
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Reusabull
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ree/yous/a/bull
Sentence: Recycling is a wonderful thing but people who take it to the extreme are full of reusabull.
Etymology: reusable + bull (shit)
Trashcycle
Created by: Raquelle
Pronunciation: trash sahy kul
Sentence: "Is that toilet paper on your clothesline?" "Of course, we trashcycle everything in this household."
Etymology: Trash, from refuse or rubbish but also meaning foolish or pointless; and Cycle, as in round / series (i.e. recycle)
Reincarnageation
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: re/in/car/naj/ay/shyn
Sentence: The butcher practices reincarnageation by using leftover bones to make wind chimes.
Etymology: reincarnation + carnage
Paperpetuate
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: pa/per/pech'/oo/ate
Sentence: As a student of Our Lady Of Paperpetual Plates Convent School for Girls, Mary Clare found it very difficult to waste anything. The good sisters had instilled in their young charges the importance of being careful stewards of all God's creation. Generations of girls had taken this message to heart so sincerely, some of the school's paper plates were actually older than Mother Superior.
Etymology: paper + perpetuate
Reinspate
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: rē'ĭn-spāt'
Sentence: Regis reinspated his TEXSUN(tm) juice cans for everything from tailpipe patches to pen and pencil holders.
Etymology: reins, means of steering or control; pate, the top of one's head.
Recyclivity
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re - syke - LIV - uh - ty
Sentence: Belinda's propensity for saving and recycling any all all manner of disposable materials had evolved into full blown, out of control recyclivity.
Etymology: Blend of recycle and proclivity (habitual inclination or tendency)
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COMMENTS:
We should all have a proclivity for recyclivity, especially with Earth Day coming on Apr.22 ... good one, Mustang! - Nosila, 2008-04-18: 01:21:00
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Papermiser
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: paper+miser
Sentence: Don't be such a papermiser, just throw those old disposable cups out.
Etymology: paper+miser
Repsyclo
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: ri-sai-klō
Sentence: Genie found out at Rita's birthday party that Rita is a repsyclo when the paper cups that Rita just brought out from a badly crumpled plastic bag all have multiple old lipstick marks on them!
Etymology: From 'recycle' and 'psycho'.
Recyclomaniac
Created by: ziggy
Pronunciation: re-si-clo-may-ni-ac
Sentence: Poor Della, she was on such a tight income. She was forced to cut corners and tighten her belt but even so...this sight was just ridiculous! There she was, frantically pegging washed toilet tissues to her washing line. She never envisaged this, after all, the lottery millions were supposed to last a lifetime.......
Etymology: Recyclo from recycle and maniac from one possessed!
Hoardiculture
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hord a kul chur
Sentence: "I think you are taking that commercial way too literally, Rita", said her neighbour, Bev. "When they said not to squeeze the Charmin, they did not mean when you washed it and hung it out on the line". Rita said, "You just don't understand the basics of hoardiculture, Bev." "People have to justify their carbon footprint by saving everything they can..the forests, the whales, the water, the environment and Mother Nature, too." Bev replied, "But, Rita, is it really wise to re-use toilet paper with brownish streaks on it? I mean doesn't that spread disease and isn't it just plain hard to stop germs from spreading?" "Oh, Bev, I call it it hoardiculture, you call it hardiculture...as she gazed fondly over to her mailbox, proudly showing her name: "R. Swipe!"
Etymology: Hoard (to save up or never dispose of anything) & culture (a particular society at a particular time and place or the product of cultivating micro-organisms) & horticulture (the cultivation of living organisms)
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COMMENTS:
great word -seems as if it should already been one! - pieceof314, 2008-04-18: 08:21:00
Love it! Fits perfectly! - arrrteest, 2008-04-18: 16:22:00
Great word! Wish I'd thought of it first. - Mustang, 2008-04-18: 18:59:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James