Verboticism: Vegaturate
DEFINITION: v. To take a really long, relaxing, shower; so long in fact, that you loose concept of time. n. A prolonged shower that uses up a whole tank of hot water and leaves the bather looking like a boiled raisin.
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Damprune
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: damproōn
Sentence: Jeremy was told that a hot shower can give your skin a fresh healthy look. After overdoing it for nearly an hour his new look is more like a damprune.
Etymology: damp (slightly wet) + damn + prune (a plum preserved by drying, having a black, wrinkled appearance)
Quagmerriment
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: kwag-merh-ih-mint
Sentence: When enraged at the world, budding rapper, Novel-T, took a shower. It became his performance arena. After learning that speakers wouldn't electrocute him, he set them up for surround sound. While lathering himself up into a foam only old Triton could summon, he poured out his angst, hipping and hopping to his heart's content in a state of blessed quagmerriment.
Etymology: From QUAGMIRE, perplexity/hotwater + MERRIMENT, good fun, sportiveness
Sudstained
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: suhdz-steynd
Sentence: Jerry finds a sudstained shower to be very bathartic. He doesn't seem to understand why his wife gives his practice such a cold shoulder. It might have something to do with the fact that she rarely gets to take a hot shower.
Etymology: suds (froth) + sustained (endure without giving way or yielding)
Soapoperation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sop oper ay shun
Sentence: George's twice daily overlong shower turned into a regular soapoperation...he had a shampooectomy which took over an hour each time.
Etymology: Soap Opera (daily drama) & Operation (manoeuver;planned activity)
Eauvertime
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: overtime
Sentence: Even though Bob worked at the public swimming pool, there was nothing he liked more than eauvertime to unwind.
Etymology: eau (fr - water) + overtime (additional hours)
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COMMENTS:
eau dear - galwaywegian, 2009-02-26: 06:41:00
Good one! - TJayzz, 2009-02-26: 06:44:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-26: 10:26:00
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Minuwet
Created by: tessawessa
Pronunciation: miin/you/wet
Sentence: The art of the long, slow dance taken in the shower prior to beginning the 8 hour ritual of work. The participant often can sunstain the dance movements until visable hyperhydration occurs on the finger tips. Post-minuet, the shower participant often will feel overwhelmingly lathered, something that requires thorough towel-use in order to return to the normal state of dry.
Etymology: From the French word, "minuet". A 17th century dance...
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COMMENTS:
like it! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-26: 14:30:00
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Dipvanwrinkle
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: dip van rink el
Sentence: Her dipvanwrinkle on her wedding night lasted so long that when she reappeared, the honeymoon was over.
Etymology: dip, wrinkle, rip van winkle
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - artr, 2010-09-10: 13:22:00
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Rainsin
Created by: feltcap
Pronunciation: rān'sĭn
Sentence: It had been a long day, working a 10 hour shift and coming home to find his cat had knocked all the plants out of the window - it was no wonder he lost track of time in the shower and made it a rainsin.
Etymology: similar to rain - condensed water falling in drops, sin - to violate a moral law (overindulgence leading to negative consequence), sounds like raisin - alluding to the pruning of the skin
Shour
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: like "shower"
Sentence: Raoul spent many shours steaming and relaxing in the hot sudsy water of his shower. One day, after a particularly long shour, his skin appeared a fiery red, wrinkled, moist sun-dried tomato! After that day, he swore off the shour for a bathour.
Etymology: shour is a homophone for shower. "Shour" has the word "hour" in it to emphasize its long duration.
Spaboiled
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Spar-boy-eld
Sentence: Having been gardening all day, Joe decided to take a long hot shower. As the hot water splashed around him he felt like he was being wrapped in a blanket. It felt so good he lost all track of time and ended up spaboiled, emerging looking like an over cooked lobster.
Etymology: Spa(a hot water tub) + boiled(to have been immersed in hot water until cooked) = Spaboiled See Parboiled(boil until nearly cooked)
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COMMENTS:
very nice - yellowbird, 2009-02-26: 06:36:00
He was no doubt thinking of his long lost girlfriend Sammin Ella...he lobster and never flounder... - Mustang, 2009-02-26: 07:50:00
terrific and love the puns Mustang - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-26: 10:28:00
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