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DEFINITION: v. To compulsively wash and excessively reuse "disposable items", like paper cups, plastic utensils or kleenex tissues. n. An obsessive compulsion to reuse disposable items, often combined with a disposal inhibition.
Reinspate
Top verboticism of the day created by stache
Pronunciation: rē'ĭn-spāt'
Sentence: Regis reinspated his TEXSUN(tm) juice cans for everything from tailpipe patches to pen and pencil holders.
Etymology: reins, means of steering or control; pate, the top of one's head.
Created by: stache.
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Paperpetuate: /pa-per-pech'-oo-ate/ As a student of Our Lady Of Paperpetual Plates Convent School for Girls, Mary Clare found it very difficult to waste anything. The good sisters had instilled in their young charges the importance of being careful stewards of all God's creation. Generations of girls had taken this message to heart so sincerely, some of the school's paper plates were actually older than Mother Superior. Etymology: paper + perpetuate Created by: Jamagra.
Trashcycle: /trash sahy kul/ "Is that toilet paper on your clothesline?" "Of course, we trashcycle everything in this household." Etymology: Trash, from refuse or rubbish but also meaning foolish or pointless; and Cycle, as in round / series (i.e. recycle) Created by: Raquelle.
Tossaphobia: /toss uh foh bee uh/ Debbie stared up at the clothesline and started adding it all up: the hanging toilet paper, the compost piles, the stacks of newspapers and half-opened junk mail in the family and living rooms, the baskets of trash and used personal items organized by type in the backyard and the garage, and the old clothes in the hallways and spare bedroom, the basement full of broken, loose and dismantled electronic equipment. When pressed about the sheer oddity of the picture, Nancy just shrugged her shoulders and said, "I just can t bare to throw theses things out becuase we can reuse them." Debbie thought these folks suffered from tossaphobia, the inability to throw anything away. Etymology: Toss - to throw away and phobia - fear of Created by: pieceof314.
Comments:
Good one...an obsessive/compulsive thingy. - Nosila, 2008-04-19: 00:37:00
I like this one... it's the genetic hoarder's disease! - Raquelle, 2008-04-19: 03:21:00
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Today's definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James