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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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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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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
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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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
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.
Uberuseabuse
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: oober-yoos-a-byoos
Sentence: The whole family was suffering from Nanna's uberuseabuse since it had progressed from crocheting floor rugs from plastic breadbags to soaking bandaids in bleach and then smearing some adhesive on them to re-stick them on the grandkids grazed knees.
Etymology: uber (over) + use + abuse (what happens when you force someone to re-use their disposable nappy or bandaid)
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)
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'.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James