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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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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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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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Chipbunk

artr

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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Makes me hungry just reading about it. Good word! - Mustang, 2009-03-18: 19:21:00

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Laysaway

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: leys-uh-wey

Sentence: Josh has more hiding places for snacks around the office than he can remember. He definitely believes in the Laysaway plan.

Etymology: Lays (a snack brand) layaway (an article or item put away for annuitized payments)

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Storeo

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sto ree o

Sentence: People who did not grow up in large families did not understand the need to stash away treats from competitive siblings. Treats were few and far between and therefore had to be locked away, guarded or secreted in unlikely places in order to savour when the coast was clear. The old man's pride and joy was his new fangled stereo, complete with 2 large speakers. These speakers today are minute, but in the good old days, they were large, rectangular boxes, big enough to be pieces of furniture themselves. They were open at the back and the space behind them was large enough to store treats that were squirreled away until later, unseen from casual observation at the front of the unit. Hence, the stereo became the storeo. Hi-Fi actually stood for Hide & Find, not High Fidelity. You waited and watched to see which sibling paid unreasonable attention to an inanimate object, like a speaker box, and then you knew where his cache of goodies lay. It was psychologically impossible for him not to keep checking on the loot guiltily. When he was in the bathroom or outside playing, you then helped yourself to his treats. Of course, you had him, because he could not complain to the folks, or the old man would have his hide for putting his sound system at risk with melty treats, like oreo cookies. It was a perfect arrangement and it was true, the forbidden fruit always tasted sweeter!

Etymology: Stereo (reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound ) & Store (to save;a supply of something available for future use) & Stow (stash something away) & Oreo (the famous choclate cookie with a white cream filling).

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metrohumanx I've heard stories of snack-depivation. Kids secretly gorging themselves on sweet baking ingredeients- even molasses- just for the sugar. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:31:00

What a storeovision! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:53:00

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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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Chocalotdrop

petaj

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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Clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 13:05:00

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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

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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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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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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