Verboticism: Smeltiment
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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Oldengoldenmolding
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: olden - golden - mold - ing
Sentence: Cleopatra practiced oldengoldenmolding as she collected all the jewels and precious metals of her ancestry; melted them down and sold them for to buy clothes and makeup.
Etymology: Olden, Golden and Molding
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COMMENTS:
very good - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-08: 13:21:00
I bet she even melted the stuff she got from her Mummy! De Nile ain't just a river in Eqypt! Good One, mweinmann! - Nosila, 2009-04-08: 23:25:00
She should've hooked up with Rumplestiltskin! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:36:00
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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)
Nostalchemy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: nos/tal/kemy
Sentence: Times were tough so Sally and Sam resorted to nostalchemy after rummaging through the house to find anything with traces of base metals. They finally drew the line at pulling filled teeth.
Etymology: nostalgia (sentimental yearning) + alchemy (medieval chemistry seeking to turn base metals into gold)
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COMMENTS:
your reactive attractive verbotomy has great chemistry! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:24:00
Great word! - Mustang, 2009-04-08: 09:43:00
You turn words into gold! - Nosila, 2009-04-08: 23:30:00
ROTFLOL!You always come through with comedy and much to say with so few words~ :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-09: 06:52:00
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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)
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Sentimeltall
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sen tim ell tahl
Sentence: It's amazing how quickly sentimental turns to sentimeltall in tough times
Etymology: sentimental melt all
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.
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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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
Smeltimental
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: smelt im men tal
Sentence: Ronnie was taking a smeltimental journey. He had gone around the house and collected his wife, Julie's and his mother Mabel's old jewellery. His wife would never miss any of it because she never wore it and Mother was no longer somewhere that jewellery wearing was allowed. He threw everything, even pieces with stones and pearls into a big pot of hot water on the stove and started stirring. When his wife Julie came home she was hit with a strange burning odor. When she confronted Ronnie, he told her about his brainstorm. That old jewellery could be melted down into gold bullion and at $884.89 per ounce, they could be squillionaires! Julie blew up and told Ronnie that he should go back to Chemistry class, because gold would not turn to liquid until it reached almost 2000 degrees F! She pulled the pot off the stove, strained the hot metal into a collander and decided that the worse that happened this time was that her jewels got a good cleaning. She was furious, because the jewellery were the last keepsakes of her Mother and Granny and she valued them more than her goofy husband. She took the hot pot and bashed Ronnie on the head! He rubbed the lump on his cranium and he asked her if the Antiques Road Show was coming to town soon? She bashed him again, permanently and remembered the wise words of her dear old Granny, "InGot we trust, no one else!"
Etymology: Smelt (extract metals by heating) & Sentimental (given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality;effusively or insincerely emotional)
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COMMENTS:
At least they didn't stoop to selling those senseless violins! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 01:11:00
Your mind took this golden opportunity, mined the definition and cartoon, and smelted it all down for all it was worth! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-08: 07:38:00
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