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'There's a donut in your DVD Tray!'

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.

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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.

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Stache

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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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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metrohumanx 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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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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Orphicnutricache

metrohumanx

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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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

metrohumanx 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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Chubbyhole

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: tch ub eeee ho llll

Sentence: what was concealed in the chubbyhole eventaully became obvious in all the wrong places

Etymology: cubby hole chubby

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Hate

Created by: behrouzi

Pronunciation:

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Cachedrawer

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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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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mmmmmmmmmm - galwaywegian, 2010-09-29: 08:15:00

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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)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-03-18: 00:01:01
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-09-29: 00:38:00
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James