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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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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)
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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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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Snackpack
Created by: Negatrev
Pronunciation: Snak-pak
Sentence: John decided to snackpack his Mars bar, for safekeeping.
Etymology: from snack (Food eaten between meals) and pack (To put into a receptacle for transporting or storing)
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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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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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
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)
Laysaway
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)
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