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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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Stashpile
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: stash-pyle
Sentence: Mona's stashpile of several President's Choice massive milk chocolate bars were strategically hidden inside the photocopier to make them slightly softer and creamy.
Etymology: stash + pile (like stockpile)
Chocalotdrop
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: chocolate drop
Sentence: Theo surreptitiously withdrew a Mars Bar from the chocalotdrop. Unfortunately he was spotted by the cleaner who yelled out "Mr. Bromine! so you are the culprit inviting all the ants into the office".
Etymology: chocolate drop (a sweet treat) + a lot (large quantity) + drop (a location for depositing things eg. book drop at the library)
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COMMENTS:
Clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 13:05:00
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Cachehere
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: cash heer
Sentence: Penny told everyone that she was a cashier, but that was just a beard for the thing she did at home with booze, chocolate and potato chips. She would find a way to cachehere them all over the house. Tradesmen were always finding goodies when they were called in to repair things.
Etymology: Cache (secret hiding place) & Here (this place or location)& WordPlay on Cashier (person who recieves or pays out money)
Snackcess
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: snak sess
Sentence: Bbubba could be on a desert island, in the operations room in the pentagon or diving on the wreck of the Titanic, and he would still have snacksess 24/7
Etymology: access snack
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, Bernard 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)
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COMMENTS:
Very nichely done! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:47:00
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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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Contrabank
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: CON trah BANK
Sentence: At the girls dormitory cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, and even chocolate or any kind of junk food were considered contraband. Sue thought life without vices was more of a sin than with them. Her life would be contritely bland, without her contraband, so she had a whole contrabank of goodies.
Etymology: CONTRABAND: BANK:
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:25:00
Terrific one letter change! Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:45:00
loved it. - mweinmann, 2009-03-18: 12:57:00
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Calorefuge
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kahl owe reffff euj
Sentence: having neglected to clean out his calorefuge before his extended leave, He noticed a strange smell in his office upon his return, whereupon two rather green ex-muffins tried to climb onto his lap to welcome him back
Etymology: calorie refuge
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COMMENTS:
What a picture! What an ending! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:36:00
cute blend, how lovely to have 2 green muffins for St.Pat's Day (last year!) - Nosila, 2009-03-18: 19:01:00
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Snackristy
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: /snahk-riss-tee/
Sentence: The priest would hide candy bars and sodas within the snackristy to tempt the gangly altar boys and the painted Jezabels of the parish to stay after mass and accept his catechism.
Etymology: sacristy - the room in a church where the sacred items are kept; snack - a small quantity of food betwixt meals to prevent the gut from digesting itself
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COMMENTS:
Domenic- go frisk 'em. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:28:00
Perfecto! - readerwriter, 2009-03-18: 08:21:00
(W)holy unacceptable :) - galwaywegian, 2009-03-18: 10:17:00
Tad sackreligious! Very Clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:30:00
Also snackreligious....and funny - mweinmann, 2009-03-18: 12:56:00
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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