Verboticisms

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Rap it tran sit

Sentence: Paper Rosey had quite a system. She was a paper clip. She clipped paper from any source she could. She removed paper from gifts, copy machines, comics books, paperbacks, newspapers, even paper dolls, and toilet paper rolls. Paper Rosey even stripped the paper from the walls. Paper Rosey was also the ultimate paper resighcler. Her paper clippings were used, over and over again, to wrap her gifts. Paper Rosey even made paper jams, by taping and pasting small bits and pieces together, until she had enough to cover her gifts. Paper Rosey called all this her ... wrapitransit system.

Etymology: RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM, WRAP IT. RAPID TRANSIT - exspeedient rapid transition system using papers that should have been buried undergound but were quickly re-elevated to the status of gift wrap. WRAP IT - cover it with paper.

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COMMENTS:

clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-22: 09:43:00

Hee Hee Heee- pro foundly undergroundly. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-23: 10:11:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: slow-pen

Sentence: nanna was always guaranteed to slopen her presents

Etymology: slow, open

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COMMENTS:

another great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-19: 12:47:00

Clever blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-19: 17:59:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: rap so free

Sentence: Her Christmas rhapsody turned to crapsody when her chapsody's gift came wrapped in old magazine pages. Colorful as they were, she knew he'd never paid for a magazine in his life, so this gift was done up in wrapsofree. His gift to her from the Gapsody would have been better received if he had not stolen pages from his Dadsody's stash of Playboys. For that he got a slapsody, after which he needed a napsody!

Etymology: Wrap (covering on a gift) & So Free (no cost), wordplay on rhapsody...which this is not!

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COMMENTS:

hilarious! - remistram, 2010-12-22: 10:11:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: wrap/uh/nom/i/kuhl

Sentence: John is a seasoned wraponomical gifter, retriving wrapcycled paper from his special wrapceptacle where he keeps all his wrapclaimed paper.

Etymology: wrap + economical

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COMMENTS:

bravo John - he should buy a special Christmas plant called a recyclamen - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-19: 12:44:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: fraj-uhl-re-rap

Sentence: She stored all her fragilerewrap in a drawer with all her recycled bows, ribbons, paper towels and toliet paper.

Etymology: fragile (as in delicate, easliy destroyed) + rewrap

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Created by: Hawgy

Pronunciation: re-wrap-pled

Sentence: I rewrappled your gift with this old newspaper.

Etymology: A combination of recyled and wrapping

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COMMENTS:

Simple but effective...wrapturous - Nosila, 2008-12-22: 23:07:00

I like the way that sounds...Rewrappled....kind of fruity! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-23: 10:14:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: gift-SKIN-ning

Sentence: Although Bob couldn't resist using his skills as a taxidermist when unwrapping presents; more often than not, despite his painstaking peelings, his giftskinning ended in a wrapsidermical stuff-up. And many a time on Christmas day a wrapclamation catastrophe found him in deep depression, suffering from another bout of the yuleskinner blues.

Etymology: Gift: a present & Skinning: remove outer layer or epidermis; fig to remove covering.

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COMMENTS:

Your word stuck me as so appropriate to the two seasons, Christma and hunting, that are shared here in the Rocky Mountain northwest. Very timely create! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-22: 14:47:00

Remember" Ghost Riders in The Sky?" ....I just KNEW you would! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-23: 10:16:00

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: thrift - rap

Sentence: Benjamin always used thriftwrap for his gifts. He reclaimed all wrappings from gifts he received throughout the year and sometimes reused styrofoam take-out containers as boxes. He was careful to wash all traces of food out of them first. His friends were sometimes "befuddled" though as the paper he had around the house did not always match the occasion.

Etymology: thrift (parsimony: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily) + wrap (enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering)

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - Mustang, 2008-12-23: 00:39:00

Clever. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-23: 23:50:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: rap/si/mo/ni/ous 

Sentence: Joe recycles nothing, so when he carefully removes the paper from his gifts, he is just being wrapsimonious, so he won't have to purchase any.

Etymology: WRAPSIMONIOUS - from WRAP (wrapping paper) + PARSIMONIOUS (excessively cheap, frugal)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: rip rap

Sentence: she didn't appreciate his wripwrap, even though he had neatly (almost)retaped over the original tape marks. he had a feeling it would be a while before he got to unwrap her from the lingerie the wripwrap contained.

Etymology: rip wrap

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COMMENTS:

oh dear - I guess he got wripwrapped off - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-19: 12:43:00

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