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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.
Verboticisms
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Repsychophobe
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Re-sykofowb
Sentence: Being a seasoned repsychophobe, Fred drove his wife mad by insisting that the teabags had to be dried out by the fire ready for next time, but she drew the line when he suggested they start wearing recycled false teeth.
Etymology: Recycle + Psycho + Phobia = Repsychophobe
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COMMENTS:
Psychotic AND phobic. Works well. - Mustang, 2008-04-18: 19:00:00
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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!
Repsycholist
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: re/sahy/koh/list
Sentence: Janice was our neighbourhood repsycholist who not only reclaimed kleenex from the street gutter for her children to use, but also cigarette butts for her husband.
Etymology: recyclist + psycho
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Nosila, 2008-04-19: 00:38:00
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Tossaphobia
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: toss uh foh bee uh
Sentence: Debbie stared up at the clothesline and started adding it all up: the hanging toilet paper, the compost piles, the stacks of newspapers and half-opened junk mail in the family and living rooms, the baskets of trash and used personal items organized by type in the backyard and the garage, and the old clothes in the hallways and spare bedroom, the basement full of broken, loose and dismantled electronic equipment. When pressed about the sheer oddity of the picture, Nancy just shrugged her shoulders and said, "I just can t bare to throw theses things out becuase we can reuse them." Debbie thought these folks suffered from tossaphobia, the inability to throw anything away.
Etymology: Toss - to throw away and phobia - fear of
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COMMENTS:
Good one...an obsessive/compulsive thingy. - Nosila, 2008-04-19: 00:37:00
I like this one... it's the genetic hoarder's disease! - Raquelle, 2008-04-19: 03:21:00
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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
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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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.
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
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
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James