Verboticism: Garbingers
DEFINITION: n. The colorful array of plastic bags and other debris which blossom on the trees, thanks winter's whistling winds -- and a few careless neighbors. v. To watch your garbage caress the landscape, as it blows in the wind.
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Forestfliers
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: for - rest - fli - urs
Sentence: Remember to pick up your trash, especially plastic bags and paper....because only you can prevent forest fliers....
Etymology: Forest and Fliers
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COMMENTS:
Super Duper! Luv it! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-02: 17:23:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-02: 18:21:00
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Superstitionalism
Created by: harleyquinade
Pronunciation:
Sentence: the of superstitions, the method, the patterns, the workings, their soul laid bare.
Etymology:
Mariahcarryall
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mar rye ah kerree awl
Sentence: Ben & Elizabeth knew that spring was just around the corner. Sure most of the snow had gone, the air was a bit warmer, robins were returning and gophers still hadn't learned to avoid the road. But the main reason they knew was because their trees were littered by mariahcarryall. Every color of plastic bag was hung like an ornament on most branches. Paper cups from every fast food outlet for miles around decorated the gutters, jammed themselves on the fence and added to the colorful springtime signal. When they spotted this each spring, the musical couple (they played in the wind section) would gale-ly sing their rites of spring song, with much gust-o: "Away out here they got a name for wind and rain and fire. The Rain is Mess, The fires Grow and they call the wind Mariahcarryall. Mariah blows the trash around, and sends the roll-up-the-rim cups a flyin', Mariah makes the trees abound, with poly messes of every kind!"
Etymology: Mariah (from "Paint Your Wagon", Lerner & Loewe...a song named" They call the wind Mariah" also recorded by the Kingston Trio) & Mariah Carey (popular singer, whose mother named her after the wind in the above song) & Carry (take away, be conveyed over a distance) & All (everything) & Carryall (something large that carries a lot of things)
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COMMENTS:
Nice construction...I thought you might be jealous of MC's tree-trunk thigs...until i read further.
Good one, guardian of the nose! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-02: 02:04:00
Great song for this day/definition. I really liked your revised rendition. Windsome! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-02: 02:14:00
like the way your mind works woman! - galwaywegian, 2009-04-02: 03:37:00
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Arbbish
Created by: ChickenWhistle
Pronunciation: ARR-bish
Sentence: "Oh, look at that delightful arbbish fluttering whimsically in Trevor's apple tree!"
Etymology: 'arb'- from 'arbre', the French for tree. 'bish' from 'rubbish', meaning garbage or worthless.
Canoppy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kan oh peee
Sentence: The use of polypropylene has cahnged the canopy to a canoPPy, which is a sackrilage
Etymology: canopy, pp as in polypropylene
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COMMENTS:
a canoppy? That hors d'oeuvres is for the birds! - readerwriter, 2009-04-02: 06:35:00
the little kid in me related to the PP, and the adult in me to sackrilage! Your whole verbotomy works very well on many levels! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-02: 09:58:00
It's ickollogical, isn't it? good word - Nosila, 2009-04-02: 21:53:00
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Pigmentstyinthesky
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: PIG ment STY in the SKY
Sentence: My father was an avid bird watcher and an environmentalist. In spite of that he believed in science and technology and that they could make all our dreams come true; and we could have the best of everything that new discoveries and inventions could give us as well as preservation of the environment. As I look now up into the trees filled with garbage, far above a landscape decorated with the brightly coloured advertisement slogans of days gone by, they remind me of the vast array of bright coloured birds I once stood watching in awe. Now those bright colours make me think that my father’s pie in the sky dreams have become pigmentstyinthesky.
Etymology: PIE IN THE SKY + PIGMENT + PIGSTY: PIE IN THE SKY:a phrase that means a fanciful notion or ludicrous concept PIGMENT:Particles that are made of various natural and synthetic substances used to add color to solutions such as ink or paint PIGSTY: Slang A dirty or very untidy place
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COMMENTS:
Interesting simile! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-02: 10:11:00
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-02: 18:22:00
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Rubbletrouble
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: RUB-uhl-trub-uhl
Sentence: Once again after a very blustery March, Bubba and Mary Sue Ellen were beset with rubbletrouble and would have to call in professionals to remove all the trash and debris that decorated the soon to be budding trees in their yard.
Etymology: Blend of 'rubble' (the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up) and 'trouble'
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COMMENTS:
STOMPING good fusion, Mustango! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-02: 02:06:00
nice play on double trouble, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-02: 02:24:00
makes me think of Scooby Do - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-02: 18:23:00
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Litternity
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lit ter nit tee
Sentence: The runaway plastic bags caught in the Smith's now-bare maple tree were a display in multi-colors. More and more of them wedged in the branches each day. Once caught there, they never seemed to leave. The bright colors were on display for all litternity. Who knew when they were invented, that plastic bags would be used to decorate the landscape after they had carried home the groceries?
Etymology: Litter (rubbish;garbage;trash) & Eternity (time without end;a seemingly endless time interval)
Litterature
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lit ter a chur
Sentence: The wayward plastic blooms clinging to the bare trees were a form of visual litterature for Kathy. She found the essay in messy,the use in refuse, the rash in trash and the bag in garbage. Waste not, want not became her battle cry. She would use the pen in aspen to describe her strew love...
Etymology: Litter (garbage,refuse) & Literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value;a picture painted with words)
Beulitter
Created by: Bughunt
Pronunciation: beau-lit-er
Sentence: That's some beulitter!
Etymology: BEaUtiful, LITTER
