Verboticisms

Created by: tgulden422

Pronunciation: GRAP

Sentence: "The present he gave me was a total piece of grap."

Etymology: GR as in Gift wRap, Crap.

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Created by: KenM2

Pronunciation: Econowrap

Sentence: She was very "green" conscious and frugile. by using the "Econowrap" method for wrapping gifts, she helped the environment and saved money each holiday.

Etymology: ECOlogy+ECOnomy + wrap

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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: rebelvin

Pronunciation: peel+sav

Sentence: I liked the wrapping so much I peelsaved it.

Etymology: peel+save

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Created by: mezebra

Pronunciation: chee-po-abray

Sentence: She cheapoabres presents all the time.

Etymology:

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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: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: rap-kley-MAY-shun

Sentence: After seeing some of the things his friends had given him as Christmas gifts, Bob felt there was more value in the wrapclamation.

Etymology: Blend of WRAP(wrapper) & re-CLAMATION: the recovery of useful materials.

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: ree-jen-rap-er-ate

Sentence: He thought he'd regenwraperate the 20 year old Christmas afghan that his aunt crocheted for him would make a great wrapping for the cookies and fruitcake to give to his girlfriend, minus the dog hair of course.

Etymology: regenerate (to breathe new life into, renew, restore) + wrap (to cover in fancy paper)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: rap star

Sentence: Rodney, aka Dr Rod, was famous for being able to swathe gifts in any type of material for giving. He was the wrapstar in the family and people equally looked forward to and dreaded his creativity...

Etymology: Wrap Star, Wordplay on Rap Star (genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged-Star meaning a commercially successful entertainer of the genre)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: giftskrap

Sentence: Jerry reuses as many things as he can. He says he is being environmentally-conscious. His friends think his use of giftscrap is just tacky and cheap.

Etymology: gift-wrap (decorative paper for wrapping presents) + scrap (any waste articles or discarded material)

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