Verboticism: Tissidue
DEFINITION: n. A pile of used and discarded tissues; may constitute a bio-hazard. v. To drop a used tissue on to the floor beside your bed or chair, because you are so sick you can barely move.
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Amalgamucus
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: ə-māl'gə myōō'kəs
Sentence: Barney was 15 and a profuse masturbator, but he had been off his oats with a bad cold for several days, and the unholy assemblage beside his bed was part sploogepile and part amalgamucus.
Etymology: amalgam, a mixture or combination; mucus, a viscous, slimy mixture, chiefly mucin, water, cells, and inorganic salts, secreted by glands lining the nasal and other body cavities; main binder in boogers.
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COMMENTS:
Good word. Only one thing to say after that sentence though — Ick! :[ - Tigger, 2008-03-10: 23:18:00
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Moundomuceosis
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: mound - o - meeook - ee - o - sis
Sentence: Todd looked at the growing moundomuceosis next to his bed and could not make a move to pick it up. Since yesterday, he had only been able to lay there, cough, sniff, sleep, sneeze, blow and throw.
Etymology: a combination of the word mound, mucus and mononucleosis. Mound (pile: a collection of objects laid on top of each other ) Mononucleosis (A flu-like illness caused by the Epstein-Barr virus) + Mucus (a material produced by glands in the airways, nose, and sinuses. Mucus cleans and protects certain parts of the body such as the lungs) Mononuc
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COMMENTS:
Great word! Made me go "Ick and yuck." - Mustang, 2009-01-04: 06:07:00
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Snotzone
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: snot-zone
Sentence: Seeing Bob lying there with a cesspool of snot rags beside him, Sue knew what she had to do. She quickly donned her self-contained breathing apparatus and fully encapsulated Level A suit, entered the snotzone, and began to gingerly pluck the mucousy mess from the floor.
Etymology: hot zone (in HAZMAT response, the area of contamination), snot
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COMMENTS:
hee hee - you beat me to it! - libertybelle, 2008-03-10: 09:30:00
gross, but funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-10: 13:26:00
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Fengtisshui
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: fang-tissue-e
Sentence: Suffering through the second round of antibiotics, and the fourth week of a sinus infection, Bob, through his serious study of tissue placement, had incidentally become a master of fengtisshui.
Etymology: feng-shui+tissue=fengtisshui
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COMMENTS:
Funny and very fun! Unique choice of words to blend. Ingeniously Well Done! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-10: 23:09:00
Hillariously clever creation! - Tigger, 2008-03-10: 23:20:00
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Quantinfectissue
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: KWAN tin fec TISH oo
Sentence: When I visited my brother he was laying on the couch surrounded by a quantinfectissue and I didn't want to stay long for fear of getting sick.
Etymology: quantity: an amount infectious: passed from one person to another and tissue:
Mucascade
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: myu kas KAYD
Sentence: Vy Russ had had the flu for the past three days, and the tissues that she had been dropping in the little trash basket next to the couch had accumulated and begun to overflow. She was so tired and dizzy that she didn't even feel like emptying the basket when she went to the bathroom, so it had become a mucascade of snot rags tumbling, avalanche-like, to the floor. Too bad she lived alone. Or maybe, good thing she lived alone and no one else had to be subjected to it....
Etymology: mucus + cascade
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COMMENTS:
Snot bad... - Nosila, 2010-05-20: 00:06:00
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Feverdam
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: fee-vur-damm
Sentence: Rob's feverdam, cemented into place with rock-hard phlegmortar, completely interrupted the flow of traffic through the bedroom.
Etymology: fever + dam, ala beaver dam
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COMMENTS:
Funny sentence! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-10: 18:23:00
Good stuff. - ErWenn, 2008-03-11: 01:11:00
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Infloorendsza
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/flor/ends/za
Sentence: Josh had learned in his meditation class to let go of problems and let them float away so he put the teaching into practice used infloorendsza to rid himself of his germs carefully wrapped up in tissues.
Etymology: influenza + floor + ends + za (which is sort of like ya)
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COMMENTS:
Serendipsliptissue-ous! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-02: 07:49:00
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Tissueissue
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: TISS-yew-iss-yew
Sentence: Lyndon was feeling rotten all over from the bug he was fighting and though he realized he had a potentially dangerous tissuissue with the growing pile of infectious kleenex he felt too lousy to make the necessary effort to deal with it.
Etymology: Blend of tissue and issue
