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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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Hypercyclophilia
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: hi-per-siek-lo-fil-ee-uh
Sentence: Rosemary looked on with surprised doubt. She knew her friend Nancy was an artist, and thus automatically ignored some of her many idiosyncrasies, but this was too much for her to process: The toilet paper on the clothesline, the mound of used teabags on the counter, the dishwasher full of plastic spoons and forks, and the cabinet full of used paper plates. After some discussion, she found out some more items from the hypercyclophillia T.M.I. files -- what she did on her early to light flow days, dental floss, and her newborn's baby wipes.
Etymology: hyper, over and beyond + cyclo, from recycle + philia, love of
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COMMENTS:
I'm afraid to ask what they did for family planning! - pieceof314, 2008-04-18: 08:57:00
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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.
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
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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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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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'.
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
Papermiser
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: paper+miser
Sentence: Don't be such a papermiser, just throw those old disposable cups out.
Etymology: paper+miser
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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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)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James