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DEFINITION: n. A pile of used and discarded tissues; may constitute a bio-hazard. v. To drop a used tissue on to the floor beside your bed or chair, because you are so sick you can barely move.
Verboticisms
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Nosemasses
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: nose - mass - es
Sentence: Praying my cold will soon go away, my used tissues I lay ... in nosemasses at the side of my bed.
Etymology: NOSE: protruding part the face through which humans breathe. During a cold/flu, noses excrete mucous profusely usually disposed of in tissues that rise in nose-like peaks. MASSES: mounds, heaps, religious services.
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COMMENTS:
you should probably say the nosary as well - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-10: 13:31:00
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Tocsickwaste
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tok sik way ssst
Sentence: He drifted back into conciousness with the worrying news that the tocsickwaste beside the couch appeared to be moving. thoughts of a new mutant virus were quelled when he noticed the face of his pet chihuahua looking up throught the gunge filled kleenex.
Etymology: toxic waste, sick.
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COMMENTS:
poor chihuahua probably had a very glossy coat after that experience - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-10: 13:28:00
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Flupas
Created by: brasstax82
Pronunciation: floo-pa
Sentence: Sick to his stomach, and really not carrying that his roommate was bringing over a few girls, frank wallowed in a mound of his own filth committing a huge flupas.
Etymology: Flu: Sickness Faux pas:Violation of accepted social norms.
Phlegmzard
Created by: kashman
Pronunciation: Flem-zard
Sentence: Fighting with cold left George so numb that he became indifferent to the phlegmzard created in the living room of his shared apartment; this apparent "coldness" resulted in exodus of his roomate to less hazardous environment.
Etymology: Phlegm (viscid mucus secreted while suffering from cold) + Hazard (source of danger).
Quantinfectissue
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: KWAN tin fec TISH oo
Sentence: When I visited my brother he was laying on the couch surrounded by a quantinfectissue and I didn't want to stay long for fear of getting sick.
Etymology: quantity: an amount infectious: passed from one person to another and tissue:
Phlegmbuoyancy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: flem boy ansee
Sentence: Even when deathly ill, Marcus exuded a certain phlegmbuoyancy. Although he felt he was on death's doorknob, he wore his silk pyjamas and monogrammed silk robe, along with his designer slippers. He used not paper hankies or toilet paper to remove his mucus, but a supply of monogrammed silk handkerchiefs, which his butler gathered up to send to the CDC in Atlanta. Marcus reclined on his chaiselongue, under a mink throw and suffered through this ague. With a full table of aspirin, cough syrups and decongestants, everything that modern medicine could afford was laid out at his bedside. His butler brought him hot toddies in gold or silver goblets and had steamy moisture piped into his sick room. He winced when his doctor had told him he had the Common Cold...how could that happen to one of such superior breeding? Beside his bed lay one of the classic books he currently read, called Great Expectorations, printed in its original Phlegmish language!
Etymology: Phlegm (nasal mucus) & Buoyancy (cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface;irrepressible liveliness and good spirit;the property of something weightless and insubstantial) Flamboyancy (richly and brilliantly colorful;elaborately or excessively ornamented)
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COMMENTS:
Eleveating the common cold to the royal pain it truly is! The grandiose elevated to the grandinose! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-02: 07:43:00
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Encompasnot
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: en-kuhm-puh-snot
Sentence: After he removed the encompasnot from the entire floor of his bedroom, he hesitated to dispose of it in the composter, perhaps it would contaminate the earth? Maybe grow into a big mucus tree of snot?
Etymology: encompass + snot
Topplesnot
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: top'/el/snot
Sentence: "Be careful," she warned her guest, "I've had a nasty cold all weekend and I haven't cleaned up the topplesnots yet. There's one on the couch and one beside the la-z-boy, so watch your step."
Etymology: topple (to fall or tumble forward as from having too heavy of a top) + snot (mucus from the nasal passages)
Infloorendsza
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/flor/ends/za
Sentence: Josh had learned in his meditation class to let go of problems and let them float away so he put the teaching into practice used infloorendsza to rid himself of his germs carefully wrapped up in tissues.
Etymology: influenza + floor + ends + za (which is sort of like ya)
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COMMENTS:
Sick! And it suggests that some kind of growth (flora) has taken over. - petaj, 2008-03-10: 09:55:00
Snot so bad! Song for the day, Booger Woogie Bugle Boy! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-10: 18:25:00
Good word. The eyes have it, parhaps more the noses! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-10: 21:10:00
LOve the way you embedded floor and ends in influenza ... clever blending ... fits the definition. Outstanding word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-10: 23:00:00
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Inphlegmatory
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in flem a tor ee
Sentence: The Fire Marshall was certain to declare that the bedroom floor of Sal Iver's house was definitely an inphlegmatory risk. Sal had been sick with the flu for 2 days and had neither the skill nor the will to put all his used tissues in a receptacle. His bedroom was the site of much hankie pankie and the normally phlegmboyant Sal was reduced to that of a bronchialbuster who had not lasted long enough to win the big purse. The irony was that 2 days ago, he had planned to phone in sick to play hookey from work. He figured the word Gesundheit meant "serves you right". All this while his catarrh gently weeps...sniff, sniff!
Etymology: Inflammatory (characterized or caused by inflammation;unhealthy, detrimental to health) & Phlegm (Mucous,expectorated matter;saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages)
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COMMENTS:
Ack !! I wanted to use "phlegm" for this one. Let's see... there are three more body fluids, right? I mean, phlegm, blood, something and something else... Gosh this is going to be difficult. - XMbIPb, 2010-05-19: 02:48:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James