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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.
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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)
Prunerize
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: proon-er-eyes
Sentence: Maggie was so intent on prunerizing herself that she failed to notice the passage of time. When she eventually emerged from the shower, her children were grown and her husband had remarried.
Etymology: prune + tenderize
Dipvanwrinkle
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: dip van rink el
Sentence: Her dipvanwrinkle on her wedding night lasted so long that when she reappeared, the honeymoon was over.
Etymology: dip, wrinkle, rip van winkle
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - artr, 2010-09-10: 13:22:00
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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)
Damprune
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: damproōn
Sentence: Jeremy was told that a hot shower can give your skin a fresh healthy look. After overdoing it for nearly an hour his new look is more like a damprune.
Etymology: damp (slightly wet) + damn + prune (a plum preserved by drying, having a black, wrinkled appearance)
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)
Htwohno
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: aych + too + ooo + nooo
Sentence: Carsten was quickly looking puckered and dry. He did not realize how much time he was spending in the shower and puzzled over his water bills. Today was truly htwohno time as he went through an entire tank of hot water, missed three phone calls, was late for work and to top it off, when he got to work no one recognized him.
Etymology: H20 + oh no >> H2O (water, the most abundant molecule on the face of the earth) oh no (An exclamation or expression of alarm, concern, or resentment about a problem or error)
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COMMENTS:
terrific sentence - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-26: 10:32:00
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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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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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Waterlolled
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: WA ter LOLLD
Sentence: I stayed in the shower for so long that I had waterlolled myself in to a wrinkled-prune state, but it felt so good.
Etymology: LOLL: to lie or to stand in a lazy, relaxed way WATERLOGGED: so full of water that it cannot hold any more
Comments:
Verbotomy - 2009-02-26: 00:01:01
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!
Verbotomy - 2010-09-09: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by splendiction. Thank you splendiction. ~ James