Verboticism: Centimetal
DEFINITION: n. The desire to convert items with sentimental value, like antique hand-crafted jewelery, back into the raw material, like gold bullion, to access its commercial value. v. To cash in something with sentimental value.
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Sentimentalsedimented
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: sen-ti-men-tal-sed-i-ment-ed
Sentence: Tiffany Winston couldn't catch her breath and was heart broken, when she realized her husband Harry Winston had "sentimentalsedimented" all of her precious antique gold heirlooms she had inherited from her Grandmother's estate. Tiffany went on to explain, that one single piece of the jewelery he had just "sentimentalsedimented" was valued at over 1.5 million at Sotheby's with what she was willing to part with and had already had it catalogued to be auctioned...but now Harry had turned all of her sentimental jewelry into a glob of sediment worth far le$$ money!
Etymology: Sentimental; Marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism,resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought (a sentimental attachment) or (a sentimental favorite) Sedimented; To settle to the bottom in a liquid,to deposit sediment. (added "ed"); to show the act of melting to achieve a $ediment.
Feltchemy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: felt kem mee
Sentence: Georgia was horrified to come home and find that her husband, Nat had taken all her antique, fine gold jewellery and placed it in a saucepan to try and melt it down into gold ingots. "What kind of feltchemy are you practising?" she lamented. "Relax, Precious", he smirked..."I am just cooking up some Karat soup for us"!
Etymology: Felt (to feel;to have sensed) & Alchemy (ancient chemistry practice to try and change base metals into gold)
Sentimetal
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sen-tuh-met-l
Sentence: Times are rough for Tim. He has liquidated a number of his assets just to make ends meet. Today, it's a sentimetal issue. He may be fond of his Olympic gold but it will pay the rent.
Etymology: sentimental (weakly emotional) + metal (any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.)
Jewelleremixedemotions
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: ju/well/ur/ree/mixed/ee/moe/shuns
Sentence: It was with jerwelleremixedemotions that she melted down all her charms.
Etymology: jewellery + re mix + mixed emotions
Smeltiment
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: smel tim ent
Sentence: Roy surptised Rachel by throwing all her inherited jewellery into a pot on the stove to extract the precious metals. His smeltiment towards her prized antiques quickly turned to confusion. Seems they made fakes in the old days, too and she ended up with a sentimelted blob in her good cooking pots and nothing to remember Grandma by...Roy turned out to be an alchemissed.
Etymology: Smelt (extract metals by heating) & Sentiment (tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion)
Heirloot
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: air-lute
Sentence: Marty had some minor success heirlooting his mother's jewellery, but he was bamboozled how to make a profit out of the antique grandfather clock.
Etymology: heirloom (family treasure handed down from generation to generation) + loot (plunder)
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COMMENTS:
Clever blend and pun! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:26:00
VEEY creative! Good one, petaj! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:31:00
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Rawlove
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: R-aw-luv
Sentence: Alex was overcome with rawlove when he saw the price of gold go over $1000 an ounce, knowing that 5 of his 6 teeth had gold caps on them! He immediately used a pliers to yank them off and melted them in an old cast iron pan over the hobo barrel.
Etymology: Raw (basic, elemental materials) + love (desire, want)
Centimetal
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: sent-i-met-el
Sentence: I was absent-mindedly looking at the ring my grandmother had passed along from her childhood when I got a centimetal feeling. Wouldn't Grandma want me to have something nice--even nicer than an old ring that doesn't fit me? I headed to the antique jewelry store immediately.
Etymology: Sentimental altered to incorporate "cent" as in the unit of currency and "metal" as in precious metals.
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COMMENTS:
I get your drift. - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:30:00
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Sentimetallurgy
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sen-ti-met-al-lur-gy
Sentence: Pam walked into the kitchen to find Robert busily smelting her precious heirlooms. When she asked what he was doing Robert replied, "You keep complaining that I have no job or ambition,so I've decided to get into sentimetallurgy. That way I can clean out this junk and make cash at the same time." "That's a great idea," Pam said as she reached for Robert's golf trophy.
Etymology: sentimental:romantic, nostalgic + metallurgy: the science of working with or heating elements to give them desired properties
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-04-08: 09:43:00
funny little story - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-08: 13:22:00
Great word AND story! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:32:00
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Ingotwetrust
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in got we trust
Sentence: When Jane got home she first noticed that Dick was cooking something putrid. Upon further look, instead she found him smelting all her jewellery and valuables. His ingotwetrust activities however were a waste, as she had long ago copied her jewellery and placed the real McCoys in a bank vault. Dick's cooking smelled more like melting plastic...a recipe for asphyxiation!
Etymology: Ingot (gold bullion in a size convenient for handling) & Wordplay on motto "In God We Trust" (placed on US currency)
