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DEFINITION: v. To take a really long, relaxing, shower; so long in fact, that you loose concept of time. n. A prolonged shower that uses up a whole tank of hot water and leaves the bather looking like a boiled raisin.
Verboticisms
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Vegaturate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: vedj_ATCH-uhr-ayt
Sentence: Though he didnt set out to fritter away his afternoon Hector nevertheless did in fact vegaturate in the whirlpool bath until he was totally pruney and out of energy and ambition.
Etymology: Blend of 'vegetate' (To exist in a state of physical or mental inactivity or insensibility) and 'saturate'(to soak, impregnate, or imbue thoroughly or completely)
Minuwet
Created by: tessawessa
Pronunciation: miin/you/wet
Sentence: The art of the long, slow dance taken in the shower prior to beginning the 8 hour ritual of work. The participant often can sunstain the dance movements until visable hyperhydration occurs on the finger tips. Post-minuet, the shower participant often will feel overwhelmingly lathered, something that requires thorough towel-use in order to return to the normal state of dry.
Etymology: From the French word, "minuet". A 17th century dance...
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COMMENTS:
like it! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-26: 14:30:00
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Sudstained
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: suhdz-steynd
Sentence: Jerry finds a sudstained shower to be very bathartic. He doesn't seem to understand why his wife gives his practice such a cold shoulder. It might have something to do with the fact that she rarely gets to take a hot shower.
Etymology: suds (froth) + sustained (endure without giving way or yielding)
Scrublutions
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: skrub loo shuns
Sentence: When Dr. Who does his scrublutions, he does so in his shower cabinet that looks like a red British phone booth. He calls it his Tardishower. By the time he is finished washing every part of him and then some,over and over,he has crossed into another time and dimension. This is how he makes a clean getaway...
Etymology: Scrub (wash thoroughly;the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water) & Ablutions (ritual washing) TARDIS (acronym for Dr.Who's travel chamber...Time And Relative Dimensions in Space)
Gablution
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: gab loo shun
Sentence: When Susie takes a shower, she uses her ear-phone and multi-tasks by showering and catching up with her friends and relatives. Her husband calls this ritual her gablution. He also calls it expensive to use her phone so much and use up all the hot water.
Etymology: gab (talk excessively, for a long time) & Ablution (ritual cleansing;daily personal hygiene routine)
Catawrecked
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kat a rekt
Sentence: The cataract left him catawrecked as he wobbled out of the bathroom, leaving a trail of flesh behind.
Etymology: cataract, wrecked
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COMMENTS:
gruesome but funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-26: 10:31:00
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Exfoiliatrophy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ex/fole/ee/a/troe/fee
Sentence: When they found Prunella, the shower was still running and she had finally succumbed to exfoliatrophy.
Etymology: exfoliate + atrophy
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - TJayzz, 2009-02-26: 06:42:00
Pruney no doubt put the Exfoilia Trophy in her trophy cabinet and added it to her many other awards. - Mustang, 2009-02-26: 07:48:00
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Raisinumb
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rāzənnəm
Sentence: Matt loved his new massaging showerhead. He spent such a long time in the shower that he was totally raisinumb. He didn't even notice that the hot water had run out or that he was turning blue. He only snapped out of it when the sound of his chattering teeth broke the drone of the pulsating water jet. Tomorrow he is going for prunumb.
Etymology: raisin (a partially dried grape) + numb (deprived of the power of sensation) prunumb (just like raisinumb but with prune-sized wrinkles)
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! - TJayzz, 2009-02-26: 06:43:00
Good word! - splendiction, 2009-02-26: 17:56:00
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Soakfixture
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: sohk fix cher
Sentence: After a long tiring day, Lily wilted into her shower seat. Lily looked lovely, wearing nothing but her water beads. She slipped into sleep, not shallow, but ever so deep. Even when the shower bower, now her water bed, was turning into a water cooler, she slept on, for her Lily pads kept her warm. Lily especially enjoyed the water on her knee, and the water on her brain. In her dreams, she sprouted angelic water wings, and took a glide, then came down a heavenly water slide. When she awoke, she swirled and played in some soaksuds. From her soakbox, you could hear Lily, now a soakfixture, speaking ... nay ... 'twas Lily ... singing in the rain.
Etymology: SOAK, FIXTURE. Soak - to spend long periods in water. Fixture - 1) One that is invariably present in and long associated with a place. Fixture - 2) permanent plumbing appendages, apparatus, or appliances.
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COMMENTS:
Lily was a big fan of Gene Kelly! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-26: 02:59:00
It wasn't her Gene that made her sing...it was her chromosoaks... - readerwriter, 2009-02-26: 09:47:00
lovely sentence - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-26: 10:29:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by splendiction. Thank you splendiction. ~ James
splendiction - 2009-02-26: 22:00:00
-you're welcome. This def. was dedicated to all those family members who deprive us of warm water!
Today's definition was suggested by splendiction. Thank you splendiction. ~ James