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DEFINITION: n. A momentary break in the time-space continuum, which often occurs while showering, and leaves one wondering whether or not they have shampooed their hair. v. To lose track of time while showering.
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Shampoonesia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sham poo neesj sja
Sentence: When Melody stepped into the warm, steamy shower, the soapy water helped ease her weary bones and relax her. The lovely smell, cranial massage and warm inviting feeling gave her a good case of shampoonesia. Too bad the twins had learned to unlock the bathroom door and her shampooblivion was too short-lived.
Etymology: Shampoo(to wash the hair) & Amnesia (partial or total memory loss)
Disscrubtonica
Created by: imagica
Pronunciation: dis-scrub-tonica
Sentence: I'm sorry my hair looks so bad today, I had a brief bout of disscrubtonica in the shower today.
Etymology:
Vidalsasomaly
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I ran out of hot water because I had a Vidalsasomaly and ended up shampooing twice.
Etymology: Vidal sassoon & anomaly
Shownumdrum
Created by: cafisher
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Turning my face away from the spray, I felt the back of my hair--the usual shownumdrum--had I shampooed yet?
Etymology: shower + conumdrum
Tardishampoo
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tar diss sham poo
Sentence: Rosie lost all track of time and space when she entered the shower and commenced her tardishampoo. She was running late today and accidentally grabbed the Drano instead, as her eyes were closed to keep out the stinging. When she realized she had grabbed the wrong product, she went to call a doctor for advice, but Dr.Who???
Etymology: TARDIS (Dr.Who's phonebox/spaceship which is an acronym for "TIME AND RELATIVE DIMENSIONS IN SPACE"...it's actually a huge space inside). & Shampoo (to wash, lather and rinse hair & product which cleans hair).
Shamnesia
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: sham-nee-zha
Sentence: It was not going to be a good day. While in the shower, Sue passed through a watergate and suffered a bout of shamnesia. Later, she showed up at work with fresh-smelling, albeit greasy hair.
Etymology: shampoo, amnesia
Timewarpwash
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: tyme/worp/wash
Sentence: S... Another day another timewarpwash - did I just get in or am I just getting out?
Etymology: time warp + wash
Showermhole
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: sh-ow-erm-hole
Sentence: sure she was clean but how come it was suddenly 1836...obviously she'd fallen through another damn showermhole
Etymology: shower, worm-hole
Didjavu
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: did-ja-voo
Sentence: Annie, who frequently suffered from attacks of didjavu, could empty an entire bottle of shampoo on a really bad day.
Etymology: Pun on deja vu, to sound like "did ya?" as in 'did you or did you not...?'
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COMMENTS:
Wonderful! - ErWenn, 2007-02-10: 01:50:00
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Cosmicshower
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: COS-mic-SHOW-er
Sentence: I just had an out-of-this-world experience in the bathroom -- it was a comicshower, man!. When I came to, I couldn't remember if I'd just got out of the shower, or if I was just getting in.
Etymology: cosmic shower (hot gas expelled from the starburst) + cosmic (immeasurably extended in time and space) + shower (a bath in which water is sprayed on the body)
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COMMENTS:
I like this verbotomy. In my case, it does not necessarily involve shampooing. I've dumped a hand-full of conditioner on my hand prior to shampooing. More than once. I admit to cosmicshowering. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-09: 19:39:00
Thanks purpleartichokes. - petaj, 2007-02-13: 05:58:00
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Today's definition was suggested by pandafever. If you have an idea that you'd like verbotomized, send it to us! Go to: http://www.verbotomy.com/verbinition.php.
Thanks! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by pandafever. If you have an idea that you'd like verbotomized, send it to us! Go to: http://www.verbotomy.com/verbinition.php.
Thanks! ~ James