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DEFINITION: n. Anxiety created by an inability to understand or follow the regulations for recycling, composting and garbage collection. v. To feel confused and conflicted because you produce too much garbage and don't know how to get rid of it.
Verboticisms
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Recyclosis
Created by: ravipalanimuthu
Pronunciation: rhe-psykl-o-sis
Sentence: less immune to the subject or object
Etymology: Tuberculosis
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COMMENTS:
Intriguing etymology! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 13:36:00
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Conrefusion
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: kon-ref-ew-zhun
Sentence: Jack was in conrefusion when the city made a new ordinance that paper could not be put out to the street in a paper bag; instead it had to be put in a city approved styrofoam bin. The bins always ended up breaking about once a month; causing great conrefusion and suffering for the citizens of the city.
Etymology: Confusion (not understanding) + Refuse (garbage or trash)
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COMMENTS:
Great ending twist in your last sentence that gives your verboticism the double meaning beyond the two meaninngs of both words in your etymology. Very clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 13:03:00
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Distrashed
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: diss trah sssh d
Sentence: He didn't feel totally rubbish, but admitted to being a trifle distrashed
Etymology: distressed trash
Postconsumerparalysis
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: post/con/soom/er/puh/ral'/uh/sis
Sentence: Standing before the five bins with a laundry basket containing 15 pounds of recyclables, Jillian realized that overnight her mild case of "sorter's block" had become raging "postconsumer paralysis".
Etymology: postconsumer waste (packaging left after the goods inside have been used) + paralysis (a state of helpless inablility to act)
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COMMENTS:
Nicely describes the definition!! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-25: 12:47:00
Your sentence and verboticism also evoke the feeling/anxiety in the definition exceptionally well! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 12:56:00
There a lot of long verboticisms today. Kudos for the longest! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 13:58:00
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Beswillderment
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: bee-swill-dur-ment
Sentence: Approaching the recycling containers, plastic bottle in hand, Sue was overcome with anxiety, trashabash, and beswillderment. Could her #3 bottle even be recycled?
Etymology: bewilderment, swill
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COMMENTS:
Simply Suberb! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 11:03:00
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-25: 11:37:00
I like it! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-25: 20:08:00
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Recyclebabble
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rēsīkləbabəl
Sentence: Sally is confused by recyclebabble. One day she hears that you can recycle some items, the next day no. One week everything needs to be separated, the next week no. Just last week somebody told her that many cities put recyclables into landfills. As she finishes a carton of eggs, she shutters at the thought of what to do with it.
Etymology: recycle (convert (waste) into reusable material) + babble (talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish manner)
Recyclophobia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Re - syke - luh - foe - bya
Sentence: Eugenia's recyclophobia was so severe that she would become nearly hysterical in her efforts to sort the materials into the proper bins.
Etymology: Recycle and phobia
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COMMENTS:
GMTA ... good minds think alike ... it was the first verboticism that came to my mind. This seems to happen a bit among ALL the verbotomists. There's a delightful meeting of the minds on verbotomy in so many ways. Excellent verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 13:33:00
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Apgreenhension
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ap/green/hen/shun
Sentence: With all the new recycle rules, the tree huggers are filled with total apgreenhension every garbage day.
Etymology: APGREENHENSION - noun - from APPREHENSION (anticipation of adversity) + GREEN (environmentally aware)
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COMMENTS:
Anything green these days will win a popularity contest! Great create! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-15: 12:34:00
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Repsycholing
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ree sigh koe ling
Sentence: The repsycholing turned his brain to jelly, but not in any useful way.
Etymology: recycling, psycho
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
stache - 2008-03-25: 02:10:00
I love the "IDEAS" bin.
Thanks stache. That's the bin where I put out my old ideas for recycling. ~ James
Jamagra - 2008-03-25: 08:07:00
James... maybe you could recycle those ideas my way? Love the cartoon and the word, but today... I got nothin'.
Jamagra - 2008-03-25: 09:10:00
Oh! Thought of something. I'm good now!
remistram - 2008-03-25: 10:23:00
got our massive bin last week...process is a bit more streamlined, am happy now!
purpleartichokes - 2008-03-25: 11:15:00
Lucky you, remi... our community recycling consists of loading the stuff up in your car and taking it to the recycling center on one of the few days/hours that they happen to be open. Sucks. I did get a FREE compost bin from our state env. protection folks. $80 value. My mother (and only my mother) is so proud!
My Rottin' Poem
I love my compost pile!
It thrills me to the bone
To think that all that wilted slop
Will enhance the crops I've grown!
I garden with a passion,
And I compost with a zeal.
I collect the coffee grounds at work
And cherish every peel.
In my cellar I compost in winter
Much to my son's dismay.
Though sweet to me, the smell can chase
Unwanted guests away.
My pile in the summer
Is a another sad slop story.
The dog next door gulps the gourmet treat,
Then regurgitates... quite gory.
The peels get strewn about my lawn
By some midnight compost thief.
I try to promptly pick up the stuff,
Before the neighbors give me grief.
The egg-shells never make it
To calcify my plants.
The birds steal most of the precious shards
Or they get toted off by ants.
My composting efforts without a bin
Have been daunting, to say the least.
By the time the stuff finally starts to rot,
It gets eaten by some beast.
So you see, kind folks at DEP
Why it's for a bin I pray.
If I can clean up my compost act,
The neighbors might let me stay!
silveryaspen - 2008-03-25: 13:09:00
Funtastic rhyme and reasoning!
Hey purple, I figured you loved vegetables, and guessed you were a dedicated composter, but composting in your basement??? Yikes!! Maybe that's why your shower curtain is covered in mildew. ~ James
Jamagra - 2008-03-25: 17:25:00
Purple, I am very proud of you too! You grow, girl!
purpleartichokes - 2008-03-25: 18:21:00
Um, yeah, I actually did compost in the basement in a garbage can. Apparently, I didn't add enough "browns" to the mix, cuz when I dumped it in the spring, the neighborhood smelled like a cesspool for days. ...oops. Thanks Jamagra! I'm gonna try my hand at a giant punkin this year! James - thanks for the idea. I bet that shower curtain junk would compost nicely!
arrrteest - 2008-03-25: 18:37:00
Great poem, too! I used to have a worm composting bin. At least the kids thought it was cool.
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
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