Verboticism: Seaswelling

DEFINITION: v. To increase the world's liquid water supply (and dramatically raise the level of our oceans) by accidentally melting the polar ice caps. n. The rising seas and associated flooding due to melting ice caps.
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Seaprising
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: seep + rising
Sentence: The effects of global warming have had seaprising consequences as coastal areas start to become much soggier. Water is seeping into places it was not meant to be and the water table is definitely rising.
Etymology: Sea, seep, Surprising, rising
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COMMENTS:
Super sentence, etymology and word! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:30:00
Really good word. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:58:00
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Byebyepolar
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: biii biii poh lar
Sentence: They said gore was mad, but he proved to be byebyepolar.
Etymology: bipolar, bye bye polar bears
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COMMENTS:
Very clever!
"bye bye polar bears" - sniff :( - karenanne, 2010-09-27: 15:21:00
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Polarthawgraphy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pole ar thaw gra fee
Sentence: When Jill entered university to study polarthawgraphy, she was confused. She first thought polar ice caps were drinks. She thought placing freezers over the poles would ensure they did not melt away, as she was afraid Santa would drown at the North Pole...
Etymology: Polar (ice caps) & Thaw (melt) & Graphy (suffix indicating an art or descriptive science)
Capqua
Created by: Annette
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The capqua flow is even larger than anticipated.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Good start...I like the word. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:30:00
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Tipanic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: tīpanik
Sentence: Every report of global warming sends Gloria into a tizzy. She feels like a passenger on the Tipanic except that there may not be an iceberg to run into.
Etymology: Titanic (a British passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when it was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives) + panic (sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety)
Theathaw
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: theethaw
Sentence: Maybe it was his choice of words, maybe his lisp, but when Henry tried to warn people about global warming, his efforts fell on deaf ears. His proclamation to "beware the arctic theathaw" left people wondering why a teetertotter in the tundra could be any concern to them.
Etymology: thea (ocean) + thaw (to pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semiliquid state; melt) play on seesaw with a lisp.
Aquageddon(ner)
Created by: kalex
Pronunciation: ah-kwa-ged-dun
Sentence: Arks became all the rage after I singlehandedly spurred the melting of the polar ice caps.
Etymology: Aqua-water geddon-suffix associated with apocalypse
Glowarm
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: GLO warm
Sentence: Tom tucked his daughter into bed with the Gloworm he had given her from his childhood. He had been watching something on TV just before that about global warming. Later in his confused dreams there was an oversized Glowarm doll made of ice, walking around like a King Kong character melting all over and raising the water levels in the city. Tom’s dream of his glowarm situation reminded him that he should be more environmentally conscious.
Etymology: GLOBAL WARMING: GLOWORM:
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COMMENTS:
A heartwarming yet disturbing story. I try to be environmentally couscous. but it's hard. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-17: 02:59:00
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Iceburglary
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: ICE berg ler ee
Sentence: The government has had to impose sanctions against many of the big companies who are contributing most to pollution and CO2 levels, since they don't care if it causes global warming, melting of icebergs, and rising sea levels 50 years from now. Why should they care? None of those people will be around! Basically their actions (or inaction) should probably be termed an iceburglary. Although speculating on future oceanfront properties in the Adirondacks might not be a bad idea....
Etymology: iceberg + burglary
Suburgia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: səbərgēə
Sentence: Life would never be the same in Frostberg. Yes, global warming had kicked in and the polar ice cap was breaking up. That just meant that suburbia was now suburgia with a full-fledged iceberg parked in the recently-developed harbor. Residents can go boating in the morning and ice climbing in the afternoon. Old-man Johnson had tried to start up a snow cone stand but most didn't care for the salty treats.
Etymology: suburbia (the suburbs or their inhabitants viewed collectively) + berg (a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet and carried out to sea)
