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DEFINITION: n. A hiding place which is used to store emergency supplies like donuts, booze and candies. v. To hide special treats in secret locations around your home or office, so you can access them when needed.
Verboticisms
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Snacache
Created by: Radegar
Pronunciation: snakaysh (alt) snakash
Sentence: George hid his personal treats in his well hidden snacache. (n) No one could snacache her supplies like Juie (v).
Etymology: A combination of snack and cache
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COMMENTS:
Welcome! You really cached in on this one! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 12:33:00
Excellent!! - Mustang, 2009-03-18: 19:20:00
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Smorgashoard
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: smor gas hord
Sentence: Thor, being of Viking descent, had developed the habit of hiding olaf his food all around his home, so that he could eat or drink something wherever he was with little effort. He hid candies in his mail box; mead bottles in his toilet tank(Skol!); herring in his ottoman storage area; nuts in his sock drawer and potato chips in his computer desk. He called this food his smorgashoard, or so the saga goes. It seemed like a good idea until the insects and mice found his cache and overran his home. Now Thor is full of re-Norse and he will have to find other ways to be toastin' Odin, like pillaging his fridge and raiding his pantry.
Etymology: Smorgasbord (an assortment of foods served as a buffet meal) & Hoard (a secret store of valuables or money; save up as for future use)
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COMMENTS:
mmmmmmmmmm - galwaywegian, 2010-09-29: 08:15:00
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Hoardaway
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: hoard a weigh
Sentence: When it comes to sweets and treats, especially nuts, Hazel likes to make like a squirrel and stash them in a cache. Hazel would be most upset if you found a way into her hoardaway.
Etymology: HOARD - to secretly accumulate and collect. AWAY - missing, as in missing so no one else can have it. HOARDAWAY is also a word play on HIDE AWAY.
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COMMENTS:
What do most hoardaways dislike? Da weigh in! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 00:52:00
You always take the HARDWAY! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:24:00
Hordes of people (and squirrels) would love to find Hazel's hidden hoardaway... - mweinmann, 2009-03-18: 13:02:00
especially her cachew stash, mweinmann! Better not let her cacheyou! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 20:10:00
Awesome! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-19: 00:02:00
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Chocolocker
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: chok + oh + lock + ur
Sentence: Crissy craved chocolate. She was always chewing on a chunk, chip, bar, nugget, kiss or cookie....anything with chocolate. She decided to collocate everything she craved in a huge chocolocker. It became her chewy, crispy chocolate containing cabinet, secured with a combination lock.
Etymology: Chocolate and Locker >> We all know what Chocolate means. This chocolate is contained in a locked cabinet so it can be hidden away....
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COMMENTS:
Sweet alliteration! Sweet creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:40:00
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Stashaslot
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: stash-a-slot
Sentence: I see the problem with your computer memory... your stashaslot is full of sticky goo!
Etymology: Stash- To hide or store away in a secret place. A- Used before nouns and noun phrases that denote a single but unspecified person or thing. Slot- A narrow opening; a groove or slit.
Chipbunk
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: chipbəngk
Sentence: When Chip's brother went off to college the bedroom was all his. The first thing he did was to squirrel away some of his favorite snacks. He could never do this before because his brother would always ferret them out. He had cookies in shoe boxes in his closet - gummy bears in his sock drawer. He found that he could replace his brother's pillow with bags of chips. He took over the upper berth so he now had Chip's bunk and a chipbunk.
Etymology: chip (a thin slice of food made crisp by being fried, baked, or dried and typically eaten as a snack) + bunk (a piece of furniture consisting of two beds, one above the other, that form a unit)
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COMMENTS:
Makes me hungry just reading about it. Good word! - Mustang, 2009-03-18: 19:21:00
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Aystashaway
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: A-stash-away
Sentence: Alice's "aystashaway" was discovered by Sam the computer technician at her work today as he was called in because the computer system shut down all of a sudden. He found her secret "aystashaway" and Alice went pale and was unable to speak because her mouth was crammed full with a stale doughnut. After Sam left...she hurried over to the back of the computer tower and unscrewed the screws and retrieved her other doughnut in her other "aystashaway". Alice breathed a sigh of relief smiled, like a little kid with a big secret and sat down to drink her coffee. The next thing she knew the computer tower started to smoke and spark and out went all the lights in the building! Then... the fire alarm went off and the water sprinklers came on. That day she decided it's best to keep her "aystashaway" away from electronic devices.
Etymology: Combination of an A and a Y to be pronounced as "Ay" as in a stash... Stash;a place in which something is stored secretly; hiding place; cache. Away;Out of existence in a secure place or manner. (or so Alice thought)
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COMMENTS:
Alice was a stash away from disaster! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:27:00
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Shotspot
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: shot - spot
Sentence: Ernie could not get through the day without a shot or two of rum, vodka, gin, brandy, whisky or some alcoholic fix. Because he did not want anyone to know his weakness, he kept a secret place he called his shotspot where he kept the flavor of the day, along with his special shot glass.
Etymology: shot and spot; also play on "hotspot"
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COMMENTS:
Great originality. Did you know that most hard liquor has so much sugar in its simplest form that a shot is a 100 calories! Sure puts alcohol in the sweet treat category. Shotspot is a tiptop create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 20:03:00
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Orphicnutricache
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: oar-phick-NOO-trih-CASH (orphinnutricached, orphicnutricacher)
Sentence: Shirly was mad-she cut her own hair- Putting on pounds though her cupboard was bare- Authorities came and seized her computers- She was a foodlum but they were like looters- Unearthing her privately secluded stash- But not her ORPHICNUTRICACHE
Etymology: ORPHIC+NUTRItion+CACHE=ORPHICNUTRICACHE_____ ORPHIC: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence, beyond ordinary understanding......NUTRITOUS: the act or process of nourishing or being nourished, the sum of the processes by which an animal takes in and utilizes food substances; Middle English nutricioun, from Late Latin nutrition-, nutritio, from Latin nutrire.....CACHE: a secure place of storage, a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements; French, from cacher to press, hide, from Vulgar Latin *coacticare to press together, from Latin coactare to compel, frequentative of cogere to compel.
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COMMENTS:
That's a long word there Metrohumanx,Way to go! I can always count on your clever wit and humor and you're nice too :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-18: 03:10:00
Thanks! I've been trying to shorten my words, but no luck. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:23:00
Part of the fun is seeing how long your word is! Look forward to your intricate etymologies! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:48:00
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Omnichecient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ohm-NISH-shynt
Sentence: Having several cleverly disguised hiding places around his home and garage for goodies he wanted to keep only for his own uses, Willie smugly considered himself to be omnichecient and quite clever.
Etymology: Blend of the prefix 'omni' (A combining form denoting all, every, everywhere; as in omnipotent, all-powerful; omnipresent) 'niche' (A recess in a wall) play on the word omniscient (all knowing)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-03-18: 19:57:00
As I looked at the list of todays verbotomies in daily stats ... it struck me that we had a lot of new words of pots of old! (big wink/silly grin) But the clever creates are golden again today!
kateinkorea - 2009-03-19: 00:00:00
I came from a big family, so I was laughing by the first sentence. Good word.
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James