Verboticisms

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: 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: Mustang

Pronunciation: rap-re-dux

Sentence: Though he knew in his heart that he was a miserly skinflint, Lyndal did his best to put positive spin on his habit of reusing wrapping paper, blithely refering to it as 'wrapredux', thinking (and hoping) that others would regard it and his stinginess in a positive light.

Etymology: Blend of 'wrap' and 'redux'....('to bring back')

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: re be SMEER ing

Sentence: His rebesmearing of the Christmas gift was insulting as the gift wrap was clearly used, wrinkled, and for a wedding for heaven's sake!

Etymology: BESMEAR: to cover, make dirty RE: again

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: gift-krapd

Sentence: Julie can't stand anything that has already been used/recycled. When her boyfriend gave her a present festooned with reused paper and a previously-owned bow, she saw it as giftcrapped.

Etymology: giftwrap (decorative paper used to wrap presents) + crap (refuse; rubbish; junk; litter)

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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: 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: mweinmann

Pronunciation: day - ja - vee - ewed

Sentence: George wasn't sure but he thought he had a strange case of dejaviewed as he opened Margie's gift. Last year, he had purchased a large roll of paper that looked just like this and had wrapped at least 20 gifts with it.

Etymology: deja (having occurred previously, repetativeness of events or actions)+ viewed (having been seen previously)

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COMMENTS:

Wonderful word with great originality. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-22: 14:43:00

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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: petaj

Pronunciation: rap - on - core

Sentence: We always rolled our eyes when Mum reminded us, but we still tried to wrapencore on Christmas day so that the paper, ribbons and bows could be set aside for a curtain call the following year.

Etymology: wrap + encore

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COMMENTS:

Excellent....encore!! Encore!! - Mustang, 2008-12-23: 00:38:00

Bravo! - metrohumanx, 2008-12-23: 10:13:00

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