Category: Verboticisms

DEFINITION: v. To expectorate unexpectedly, especially in situations where it is not considered socially acceptable. n. A person who habitually spits, even when among polite company.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Phlegmboyancy: /flem boy an see/ Phil’sh phlegmboyancy wash credited to hish Phlegmish ancheshtry. His Phlegmish accshent tended to make hiss esh shounds more shpitacular and hish shpeechimpediment, the one where he shprayed and lishped and shlurped shimultaneously, ushually left a DNA trail on hish companionsh. Shometimesh there wash sho much fluid, Phil wash thought of ash phlegmbuoyant! Thish shtumbling block became even more of an isshue when Phil whishled or shang shoprano in a sholo performansh at hish shynagogue on Shabbath! Etymology: Phlegm (expectorated mucus, saliva, discharge from respiritory passages) & Flamboyancy ( marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Phlegmboyancy:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-12: 01:06:00
Shpectackylar!

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-12: 01:23:00
OHHHHH! I was LAUGHING out loud on this one Silveryaspen!!! Great description :)~ BRAVO! STILL laughing trying to read your sentence out loud!

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-12: 01:27:00
Nosila,Forgive me oh great creator of this hilarious word and sentence. I was laughing so hard I gave the credit to the name above me! (I’m a newbie)…sorry about that!

galwaywegian, 2009-03-12: 04:33:00
hacklassic! brilliant!

mweinmann, 2009-03-12: 08:16:00
phlemtastic!!! Your story is a classic….creative, funny and shtupendush…

Banky, 2009-03-12: 14:46:00
I came to verbotomy.com today to try my hand at the word of the day. Then I saw Nosila’s and realized it was pointless. Outstanding!

Nosila, 2009-03-12: 20:12:00
You are forgiven, abrakadeborah…I love your name!! I would like to thank the membersh of the Academy and the Shcreen Actorsh Guild for your shupport!!! Cheersh. (And Banky, when I see the great words of otheres here it challenges me and inspires me to match them!)

petaj, 2009-03-13: 06:15:00
truly horksome!

metrohumanx, 2009-03-16: 02:33:00
Another Nosila Classic!

Shootemsputum: /shoot – um – spu – tum/ Clint and Dirk were both heavy spitters…. They could generate bucket sized quantities on a good day. Their sputum was copious and frequent but what irritated their friends was the shootemsputum that landed in places where no one would expect or intend…. Every day for them was a spewtemup at the OK Coral. Etymology: Shoot, ShootEm and Sputum Created by: rombus.

Comments on Shootemsputum:

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-12: 12:14:00
terrific

metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:37:00
Mind- numbing grossology!

petaj, 2009-03-13: 06:24:00
Now, loogie here pilgrim, we don’t want no trouble here on the ranch. There’s no place for lungfighters at the OK corral.

kateinkorea, 2009-03-14: 02:45:00
Very funny. Yuch, yuch, yuch!

Vesuviyuck: /vess oooooooooooooo veeeeeeee uk!/ Alarmed at the sound of the vesuviyucking coming from the kitchen of Metro’s Mouthwatering Diner, she decided against ordering the green salad. Etymology: vesuvius as in volcano, yuck as in yuck Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Vesuviyuck:

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-12: 12:17:00
with the special dressing

silveryaspen, 2009-03-12: 13:55:00
how clever to relate such unwelcome eruptions – Super Create!

metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:46:00
NO SOUP FOR YOU!……..next!

Nosila, 2009-03-12: 20:20:00
She should ve-sue-vious them! Good word!

Mustang, 2009-03-13: 06:07:00
I’m never eating out again.

Spituation: /spi ch oōˈā sh É™n/ As a baseball player Charlie was used to chewing gum and letting the spit fly. If he was nervous, he could be a regular phlegm fountain. When his team won the World Series a visit to the White House was in order and sure enough Charlie had the jitters. As he went to shake the President’s hand habits took over. The Secret Service radios crackled to life. “We have a spituation in the Oval Office!” Before he could muster another loogie, Charlie found himself on the floor. Who knew that Secret Service agents carried tasers? Etymology: spit (saliva, typically that which has been ejected from a person’s mouth) + situation (a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself) Created by: artr.

Comments on Spituation:

wayoffcenter, 2009-03-12: 07:09:00
Looks like the couple in the picture are about ready for a spatuation.

metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:46:00
Absoloutely TOP-NOTCH! That’s why I have difficulty watching TV baseball.
It makes me salivate.

kateinkorea, 2009-03-14: 02:34:00
Funny!

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Be Creative,

James

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the create-a-word game

DEFINITION: v. To ask a someone a bizarre question in order to get them to think outside their mental little boxes. (And to see if they are actually listening.) n. A creative provocation designed to pull people out of their daily stupor.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Stunundrum: /-stun-‘un-drum-/ Trying to ‘chat up’ the receptionist at the veterinarians office, Stuart idly asked her, “So why do they say you’re getting your dog ‘fixed’ when really it doesn’t work anymore afterwords? People ought to say they’re taking the dog to get ‘broken’ instead, shouldn’t they?” By the blank, slack-jawed look she gave him, he realized he’d overwhelmed her with a Stunundrum. He just sighed, sat back down and petted Rascal for awhile – at least Rascal seemed to pretend to understand his jokes. Etymology: Stun (from O.Fr. estoner) – to astonish, overpower or bewilder. + Conundrum (pseudo-Latin) – a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun. Created by: Tigger.

Comments on Stunundrum:

galwaywegian, 2009-03-11: 06:47:00
excellent!

metrohumanx, 2009-03-11: 21:26:00
Perhaps Stu should’ve had the dog
TUTORED instead….

silveryaspen, 2009-03-11: 21:57:00
Marvelous word

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-14: 18:58:00
Really good word! I like the way it sounds 🙂 Good Job!

Braintweezer: /brain tweaser/ “Please don’t give me one of those braintweezers of yours right before I have to go to bed!” Paul warned his philosophy roommate Ato. Lately, Paul, Ato and a bunch of the others had been posing many mindbenders of eachother with sharp braintweezers that stimulated unused areas of the brain. “After the last braintweez, my mind’s swelling and redness lasted for days! I lost too much sleep with the throbbing thoughts in my head…although I did realize the world is really a shallow representation of the forms!” Etymology: From the words brain and tweezer, to pinch; it is closely related to “brainteaser” but “braintweezer” causes more of a reaction in the recipient, more lateral thinking. Created by: splendiction.

Comments on Braintweezer:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-12: 00:51:00
Splendid word

kateinkorea, 2009-03-12: 22:04:00
Good!

Awakercise: /əwākərsīz/ Tony had trouble getting up in the morning until he discovered Verbotomy. Now he uses it as his awakercise to get his muddled gray matter out of its nocturnal vegetative state. Etymology: awake (stop sleeping; wake from sleep) + exercise (a task or activity done to practice or test a skill) Created by: artr.

Comments on Awakercise:

wayoffcenter, 2009-03-11: 08:23:00
zzzzzzz..Huh?

Questvigorate: /qwest vig er ate/ Have you been where you thought you were? Did you return before you got back? Did you come in the out door? Does colder weather make you older? Are you getting richer now it is daylight $avings time? Isn’t it fun to questvigorate? Etymology: To go on a QUEST to INVIGORATE other’s thinking by bizarre QUESTIONS is to QUESTVIGORATE. Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Questvigorate:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-11: 01:25:00
Please feel free to add your questvigorates.

metrohumanx, 2009-03-11: 01:49:00
If a turtle loses his shell, is he homeless or naked?

Tigger, 2009-03-11: 02:12:00
How come we park on the driveway, but drive on the parkway? – George Carlin

Tigger, 2009-03-11: 02:51:00
How come we park on the driveway, but drive on the parkway? – George Carlin

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-11: 12:14:00
Is catching a cold at the last station of a railway line a terminal illness?

metrohumanx, 2009-03-11: 21:24:00
Why did kamikaze pilots wear crash helmets?

silveryaspen, 2009-03-11: 21:51:00
you are all so creatively mullicious and smile-licious 🙂

Nosila, 2009-03-12: 00:08:00
How come when 2 cars meet in the course of driving, it’s an Intersection, but when sex partners meet it’s an intercourse?? Is this where sex drive originates?

silveryaspen, 2009-03-12: 00:47:00
Only when given the green light!

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Be Creative,

James

www.verbotomy.com
the create-a-word game

DEFINITION: v. To obsessively work on, shine and polish something which has no intrinsic value. n. A item which has lots of imagined shine in the eyes of the owner, but no real value for anyone else.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Glosstentatious: /gloss-ten-tay-shsh/ Most people were repulsed by his necklace of his own baby teeth and felt it was glosstentacious when he polished it during meetings. Etymology: gloss + ostentacious Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Glosstentatious:

metrohumanx, 2009-03-10: 12:17:00
VERY crafty combo,Steverino!

galwaywegian, 2009-03-10: 17:20:00
love it

kateinkorea, 2009-03-10: 21:01:00
Good word.

Mustang, 2009-03-10: 23:59:00
Very clever!

Doitdad: /doot dad / Mom fiddled around with dad constantly. She especially loved his bald head. It was her favorite trifle. Every morning she would do it up right, and give it a real ‘do’. Man, oh man! Could she really do it to it! She sprayed it with water, shampooed it, rinsed it, pumiced it, rinsed it, brushed it dry, waxed it spotless, then polished it to a bright snow white glaze, and topped it off with a kiss. It was mom’s favorite doitdad! Etymology: DO IT – as in “do it to it” … DOODAD – a trifling! Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Doitdad:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-10: 01:11:00
Pretty heady stuff!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-10: 08:40:00
!!!!!!

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-10: 12:19:00
pumice? – ouch

metrohumanx, 2009-03-10: 12:24:00
…So THATS why she was SKULLKING around.

Nosila, 2009-03-10: 21:57:00
Go to the HEAD of the class, metro…that’s why dad is the Pate-r!

splendiction, 2009-03-10: 22:31:00
Yes, and it sounds like cajouling to dad to “do it”! (All the things many dads are made to do)!

silveryaspen, 2009-03-11: 01:10:00
Enjoyed all the comments 🙂

Misapprehenshine: /miss ap ree hench eye nn/ The ornamental 300 pound cast iron weathervane which Jane’s late demented husband had sculpted into a very rough image of Mount Rushmore and bolted to the chimney, gave way under the force of her polishing and fell into the Jones’ garden, killing Mr Jones as he lovingly tended his asparagus. How upset she was to see her neighbour under a misapprehenshine. Etymology: misapprehension, shine Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Misapprehenshine:

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-10: 12:20:00
very funny

metrohumanx, 2009-03-10: 12:29:00
I love this sentence- it has drama, tragedy, and guffaws, too!

splendiction, 2009-03-10: 16:52:00
great word, too!

Nosila, 2009-03-10: 22:00:00
I laughed, I cried…

mweinmann, 2009-03-11: 07:59:00
hahahaha….fun

Bufflooniery: /buff-luny-ary/ Sceptics called it bufflooniery but Sally was convinced that her collection of Canadian loonies would one day be the one true global currency and religiously buffed and polished them. Etymology: buff + loonie + buffoonery Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Bufflooniery:

kateinkorea, 2009-03-10: 08:35:00
Funny! (Poor Sally)

metrohumanx, 2009-03-10: 12:21:00
I really took a shine to this word!

silveryaspen, 2009-03-10: 14:37:00
Rich! luv it!

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Be Creative,

James

www.verbotomy.com
the create-a-word game

DEFINITION: n. A tool which has been re-purposed and is now being used (perhaps unsafely) to perform a completely different function. v. To use a tool for a different purpose than for which it was originally designed.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Twingineering: /-TWNJNRNK-/ Carol’s use of the wiffleball bat, a feral cat, and 22 binder clips in her perverse twingineering experiment resulted in the summoning of no less than three ambulances to attend to the neighbor who was mistaken for a burglar. Etymology: twin + engineering (as if you hadn’t already figured that out…) Created by: Banky.

Comments on Twingineering:

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-09: 13:53:00
terrific

silveryaspen, 2009-03-09: 14:15:00
got a big laugh from the things you chose to twingineer. Excellent word!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-09: 18:42:00
Good word.

Nosila, 2009-03-09: 22:55:00
I twin-ge with laughter!

Megatool: /megÉ™toōl/ Gene believes in the megatool approach to life. If a task requires the use of a tool bigger is always better. He has a military surplus flame thrower that he uses to start his charcoal grill. You have a rusty bolt? If his jaws-of-life can’t loosen it, they can lop it off so you can replace it. His wife drew the line when he started talking about a pneumatic hammer fly swatter. She has 911 on speed-dial. Etymology: mega (very large; huge) + tool (a device or implement, esp. one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function) Created by: artr.

Comments on Megatool:

otherguy, 2009-03-09: 06:43:00
Perhaps Gene is a megatool for Black & Decker.

Mchammer: /mik – ham – mer / Donald decided to mchammer his dog house together with his mchammer. It was a new tool that he created using a baseball bat, a visegrip and a socket wrench….Instead of hitting the nail on the head, he destroyed the entire dog house with his “hammer time”… Oh well, Donald thought as he put down the bat….”can’t touch this” as a hammer again….must take up baseball. Etymology: hammer, McDonalds, M C Hammer…. Created by: rombus.

Comments on Mchammer:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-09: 14:13:00
Really hammered this one!

Toastercoaster: /toe-ster-coe-ster/ The toastercoaster is a wonderful invention for making toast and keeping your hot chocolate warm. Etymology: toaster + coaster Created by: Stevenson0.

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James

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DEFINITION: n. A punishment which does not fit crime. v. To assign a punishment which is bizarrely inappropriate, and seems totally unrelated to the crime which has been committed.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Payadox: /pay a dox/ Today’s legal system is broken, for the punishments do not fit white-collar crimes. Madoff runs a Ponzi scheme and instead of being in jail, he is in his million dollar penthouse. Even more absurd, he is not made to pay any restitution, he gets to keep the billions he stole! Ditto, for the criminal mismanagement of bank assets by bank management. In their case, it gets even more perverse, for they are given bail-em-out -billions, and are free to do it again! There are politicians who do not pay their taxes. Instead of jail time, the president perversely appoints them to high political office with good pay and big benefits. The payadox of today is white-collar crime does pay, and pays big! Etymology: It is a paradox when the punishment doesn’t fit the white-collar crime … and when that white collar crime pays off big-time, it is a payadox! (In the fictionary {fiction-dictionary} a dox is the new human animal: a white-collar fox in sheep’s clothing seeking out hi$ prey.) Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Payadox:

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-06: 09:40:00
so true and so sad

Nosila, 2009-03-06: 19:04:00
Good story…just sorry it is fact not fiction!

Convictimization: /kon vik tim ize ashun/ It was pre-ordained. His name was Rob and by gosh, that is what he did for a living. He also wrote very bad checks. When he was caught and sentenced to 25 years in the pokey, he thought he had fallen prey to convictimization. He was incarcerated at Sing Sing, where contrary to the name, they did not sing, often or well. Warden Gordon Borden thought it would be ironic if Rob wrote the new Prison Newsletter, since he was so good at writing (bad checks). Rob called this literary marvel, “Sentences” and worked hard at it to make it informative and entertaining. He carried regular features, such as a column on advice to the lovelorn…”In-Mates” with such pertinent features as “Are you suffering from Penal Dysfunction?”;The Daily Horrorscope (“Your life has settled into predictable routine but just wait, the new screw in Cell Block 4 has his eye on you. Prepare for excitement.”); a singles column “Cell-ABC” and recipes from the prison kitchen, “The Garden of Pleadin'” …for Chili CON carney…take 500 pounds of ground meat, throw in 18 cups of saltpeter,…etc. He also added news items that affected his readership: “Care and feeding of your pet Cockroach”; and he used the digital camera to get candid snaps of daily life column, “I’ve been framed”. Rob became a publishing ty-con and made the most of his pun-nishment! Etymology: Convict (a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison; a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence; find or declare guilty) & Victimization (adversity resulting from being made a victim; an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Convictimization:

galwaywegian, 2009-03-06: 05:56:00
written with conviction!!

silveryaspen, 2009-03-06: 19:15:00
Top Notch Job creating this ‘con’ job and ‘con’ verbotomy!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-08: 10:30:00
So funny!!!

Punytivedamages: /pewnee-tiv-dam-aj-es/ Punytivedamages amounting to a cutback of .025% of the Bank President’s bonus for the year seemed unfair to the dispossessed living under the bridge who had been sold useless investments by his bank. Etymology: puny (feeble, undersized) + punitve damages Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Punytivedamages:

Nosila, 2009-03-06: 18:44:00
It makes you lose interest in banks!

silveryaspen, 2009-03-06: 19:11:00
Master of the one letter change to form a perfect verbotomy! Brilliant!

Sissyfine: /siss eeeeeeeee feye nnnnh/ He walked into judge Draco’s courtroom with the sinking feeling that a sissyfine decision was on its way. Etymology: fine,
Sisyphean challenge” “wikipedia”
As a punishment from the gods for his trickery, Sisyphus was compelled to roll a huge rock up a steep hill, but before he could reach the top of the hill, the rock would always roll back down again, forcing him to begin again.[2] The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus.
Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Sissyfine:

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-06: 09:38:00
oooh!! very cerebral today

silveryaspen, 2009-03-06: 19:30:00
Wow! Sissyfine was just fine as a simple combine of sissy and fine and a great create. Then I read the etymology, enjoyed the Greek myth new to me. Not quite an eponym for you spelled it differently from the Greek, but that just made it better. Double meanings are not easily created. Absolutely Brilliant!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-08: 10:20:00
Very clever!

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James

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