Verboticisms

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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kash draw er

Sentence: Simon had a place to hide goodies for a rainy day, or a day when his Mom decided he had not earned any treats. His cachedrawer was a hollowed out section on his old computer. Eventually though his mom caught on...when the ants kept crawling in and out of his hard drive. They were his original computer bugs.

Etymology: Cache (a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons);(computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics;a secret store of valuables or money) & Cash Drawer (a till or place to lock valuables)

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Created by: catlover59

Pronunciation: Stash

Sentence: Surrounded by technology and greedy people, he stached his goodies in the storage compartment of his equipment.

Etymology: stash-to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place and cache-(computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics (i.e. human and equipment)

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