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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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Insanitation
Created by: lplybon
Pronunciation: "in-SAN-i-tay-SHUN"
Sentence: Sharon's insanitation has greatly increased since she moved to Green Acres, a community where everyone recycles. Her insanitation has gotten so bad she swears to her husband that the "recycle police" are coming to get her!
Etymology: Combination of the words "insanity" and "sanitation"
Percurbed
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: per KERBD
Sentence: I am getting fed up with Mike always being percurbed about putting out our recylables on the road. He worries about whether we are putting out too much or too little. Last week he brought some of our trash to work so nobody would see it in front of our place in our recycle bins.
Etymology: PERTURBED: alarmed anxious or worried about something CURB: side of the road
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-15: 13:20:00
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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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Rubbishfulthinking
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rub bish full think ing
Sentence: Howard and Lisa's mere one bag of trash on the curb awaiting pick-up, after Christmas, was shear rubbishful thinking. The other fourteen bags were neatly piled up in the back yard to be placed out each week, one at a time. They would feel less like abusers. That is until the family of raccoons got ahold of the pile one moonlit night!
Etymology: Rubbish (garbage, trash) & Thinking (using one's brain) & Wishful Thinking (dreaming something would be or happen)
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COMMENTS:
Great Create! Rubbishfulthinking - hoping it will go away! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-15: 12:40:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-15: 13:20:00
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Ecoguilt
Created by: picabomama
Pronunciation: ee/co/guilt
Sentence: Despite using cloth diapers and cloth napkins and cedar cat litter, Kelly's ecoguilt could not be soothed. When she began making art out of toilet paper tubes, her husband decided it was time for an intervention.
Etymology: eco- shorthand for ecology + guilt- the terrible feeling that you are somehow failing
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COMMENTS:
Great sentence. Right on the definition! Outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 11:08:00
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Recyxiety
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: re-sigh-et-tee
Sentence: It was sheer recyxiety that made Howard spend hours sorting and re-sorting his trash into different categories - recyclable, non-recyclable, semi-recyclable, green glass, clear glass, blue glass, blue-green glass, brown glass, brown-ish glass, type 1 plastic, type 2 plastic and so forth.
Etymology: recycle + anxiety
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COMMENTS:
The 'sigh' in your pronunciation is a nice extra little touch! When I said your word aloud, the size-ity, of it became apparent. There's so much to your verboticism! Really Great Creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 13:24:00
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Trashcombobulation
Created by: spotthecat1
Pronunciation: trash-kuhm-bob-yuh-ley-shun
Sentence: Stella and Stan spent hours sorting through the remains of their mega-market shopping splurges and in a fury of trashcombobulation threw all the refuse in a giant Hefty™ bag and carefully deposited the unsorted mess in their neighbor's pile. The only witness was the owl who just blinked and asked, "Who?"
Etymology: (trash)1325–75; ME trasches (pl.), appar. c. Norw trask rubbish; akin to OE trus brushwood, ON tros rubbish + (dis-combobulation) 1825–35, Americanism; fanciful alter. of discompose or discomfort
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COMMENTS:
Very informative etymology! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-25: 13:21:00
Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-25: 15:19:00
Very nice - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-25: 20:06:00
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Greentard
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: green-tard
Sentence: This cup is kinda glossy, is it paper or plastic? Gosh, this is confusing. I feel so greentarded.
Etymology: green-to help the environment; retarded-lacking certain abilities.
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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