Verboticism: Papermiser

'Is that toilet paper on your clothesline?'

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.

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Papermiser

Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: paper+miser

Sentence: Don't be such a papermiser, just throw those old disposable cups out.

Etymology: paper+miser

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