Verboticism: Elepants
DEFINITION: n. The creepy pounds that sneak onto your waist even though you've been exercising and watching what you eat. v. To exercise rigorously, diet fastidiously, and yet still gain weight.
Elepants
Created by: wayoffcenter
Pronunciation: eləpəntz
Sentence: To say that John was large would be an understatement but he knew just where to shop for his stylish clothes. He went to a store that specialized in elepants.
Etymology: elephant (a heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal) + Pants (trousers)
Points: 1298
Comments: Elepants
wayoffcenter - 2009-01-09: 09:00:00
I know that artr used elepants in his sentence but I thought it was so much fun that it needed to compete on its own. :)
artr - 2009-01-09: 18:07:00
Thanks for entering elepants. That's the first time I had someone pick up a secondary word from one of my sentences.