Verboticism: Specoseduction

'My other car is a hybrid'

DEFINITION: n. A person who pretends to be green because they think global warming is hot. v. To name-drop green status symbols in a shallow attempt to attract comely green people.

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Gorestanding

Created by: OldEnglish

Pronunciation: GORE-stand-ing

Sentence: Although he used "An Inconvenient Truth" as his "Player's Handbook," somehow Shelby always avoided being accused of Gorestanding.

Etymology: Al Gore + grandstanding

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Cubicgreenonia

Created by: lauriern

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Sentence: Roger is a cubicgreenonia, he thinks by acting like he cares for the environment he is just like me. I recycle and he doesn\'t know the difference between paper and plastic!!

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Ecoflirt

Created by: Paloma

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Sentence: Reusable tote bags are a must for anyone who wants to ecoflirt at the grocery store.

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Congreenient

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: con/green/eee/ent

Sentence: Sam was a congreenient environmentalist who stashed his gas guzzler in the garage and got out his bike when the female branch of 'friends of pure air' cycled by.

Etymology: con + green + convenient

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COMMENTS:

artr Darn those gas guzzlers! :-) - artr, 2009-07-14: 15:46:00

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Greepy

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: gree-pee

Sentence: Jennifer loved nature and everything in it. Almost. She was okay with the creepy crawlies -- bugs and worms and maggots. She was fascinated by the big predators -- grizzlies, sharks, and snakes. But she could never get used to the greepy guy who kept jumping in front of her "au naturel", saying "Hey baby! Want to do a little recycling in the sunshine!"

Etymology: green and creepy!

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COMMENTS:

very funny - porsche, 2009-07-14: 12:20:00

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Ecologeezer

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: eko lo gee zer

Sentence: Stan was a real ladies' man at the Rio di NoHairo Senior's Home. He'd join whatever club there was going to meet up with the cute divorcees and rich widows. He joined the Gray But Green Club and pretended to care about recycling, air quality and saving the Earth. In reality, he was just an ecologeezer looking to get some quick action before the Earth really did end!

Etymology: Ecology (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment;the environment as it relates to living organisms) & Geezer (a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric)

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Ecobitionist

alecstevenson

Created by: alecstevenson

Pronunciation: Eco-bi-tion-ist

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Etymology: Eco + exhibitionist

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Greenwannabee

Created by: queeny

Pronunciation: green wanna be

Sentence: the dude is SUCH a greenwannabee, posing like he knows how to recycle, pleaze

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Grasskisser

Created by: Jabberwocky

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Sentence: He was such a grasskisser that he put his pesticide bottles in the bottom of the recycle bin and covered them with soy milk cartons

Etymology: grass + ass kisser

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Enviromench

Created by: deadpanwalking

Pronunciation: en-VI-ro-mench

Sentence: When he winked when he told me he'd like to show me his Prius, I knew he was an enviromench.

Etymology: Environment + Mench

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