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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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Papermiser
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: paper+miser
Sentence: Don't be such a papermiser, just throw those old disposable cups out.
Etymology: paper+miser
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)
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.
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)
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!
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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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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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