Thank goodness Rodney went first. Now I can enjoy a lovely dinner.

DEFINITION: To generously allow others to precede you in hopes that they will identify, reduce, and perhaps be eliminated by, the potential hazards.

Thank goodness Rodney went first. Now I can enjoy a lovely dinner.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Shafteryou: /sharf-ter-yu/ having persuaded Gordon to take the lead in exploring the long, dark tunnel with the odd noises coming from it, Gerald congratulated himself (from 200 yards behind) on his masterly shafteryou technique. Etymology: shaft + after you Created by: chris.

Guineatrick: /guinea-trick/ Guineatrickery is not dead! Etymology: guinea pig + trick Created by: bjorn.

Protocull: /pro-to-cull/ In today’s competitive office environment it is important to follow the correct protocull (i.e. find some other sucker to tell the boss the bad news) in order to survive. Etymology: protocol for culling Created by: wordmeister.

Courtesyde: /cur-te-side/ When it comes to difficult situations, I always allow my colleagues to go first. It is a simple courtesyde. Etymology: “Courtesy” plus “cide” as in death… Created by: jrogan.

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=mouse

Be Creative,

James

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

What are you talking about?

DEFINITION: n. An invented word which appears learned, sounds sophisticated, and is completely confusing. v.intr. To use invented words in order to confuse others, and/or create the illusion of erudition.

What are you talking about?

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Jargonundrum: /jar-gaw-nun-drum/ All politicans are experts at the use of jargonundrums to exblight and mispossess the popuelectors. Etymology: Jargon + conundrum Created by: Stevenson0.

Brainyyak: /brainy-yak/ All the brainyyak at the conference was driving me crazy, plus I had a stiff neck from nodding in agreement to all the babble. Etymology: brainy + yak + braniac Created by: Jabberwocky.

Fauxcabulary: /foe-cab-you-lair-ee/ i impressed a lot of people with my fauxcabulary Etymology: faux, vocabulary Created by: rikboyee.

Semanthick: /semm ant hick/ his use of semanthicks at every opportunity was nonundiscomfitational. Etymology: semantic, thick Created by: galwaywegian.

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=erudite

Be Creative,

James

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

Verbotoweek: Rikboyee gets a Science Fiction Verbotomy

It was a nail bitter, but rikboyee surged in the final minutes of the race to take the prize for this week — an autographed copy of Robert J. Sawyer’s newest novel Rollback. Cool! And he did it with coolest words of the week like unsuitorble and liet to popcult. And this is Rikboyee’s second big win! Last time was when we offered up a copy of the Kurt Vonnegut novel Cat;s Cradle. Coincidence? We think not. Obviously Rikboyee is motivated by great writers. Congratulations!

See the final results here:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomists.php?week=2007-06-18

A Quick Review of the Top Five Words Each Day Last Week:

Monday – ‘the dread you feel when your boss storms past unfinished work on your desk’
1. youthanasia – Created by: Stevenson0
2. teenmentia – Created by: purpleartichokes
3. slideeffect – Created by: Jabberwocky
4. malapubism – Created by: bigdog20
5. panaceaccentuation – Created by: jadenguy

Tuesday – ‘A pop culture entertainment property, which has transcended itself and become a de facto religion with legions of devotees’
1. predalektion – Created by: Jabberwocky
2. phenomination – Created by: Clayton
3. borganization – Created by: purpleartichokes
4. fanaticult – Created by: ohwtepph
5. cultasy – Created by: Stevenson0

Wednesday – ‘To eat in a peculiar or ritualistic manner in an effort to lose weight while consuming more. n. An idiosyncratic method of eating, usually adopted for “health reasons”.’
1. celeremony – Created by: Alchemist
2. liet – Created by: rikboyee
3. safepecks – Created by: purpleartichokes
4. grazecraze – Created by: Jabberwocky
5. vegebation – Created by: Stevenson0

Thursday – ‘To spend years wishing you could be young again, only to discover that it’s actually happening, but not exactly as you imagined.’
1. rejuvenackered – Created by: galwaywegian
2. geriatricks – Created by: porsche
3. deagerate – Created by: Stevenson0
4. youthanasia – Created by: Osomatic
5. regretssion – Created by: toadstool57
NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE SAME WORD FOR 2 DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS MADE THE TOP 5. ‘Stevenson0’ CREATED ‘youthanasia’ FOR MONDAY AND IT WAS THE NUMBER 1 WORD OF THE DAY. THAN ‘Osomatic’ REINVENTED IT FOR THURSDAY AND IT CAME NUMBER 4.

Friday – ‘Mating partner who is not accepted by one’s parents – fight with one’s parents over the selection of a suitable mate.’
1. unsuitorble – Created by: rikboyee
2. hunacceptable – Created by: toadstool57
3. fiancney – Created by: Jabberwocky
4. wrestlemateia – Created by: Stevenson0
5. kinflict – Created by: ErWenn

Verbantering:
Do these people have jobs? Are they full time Verboticists? This could have been a collaborative book. Hmmm… where have we seen that before? The following is an example of the creativeness bottled up around the world waiting to be harnessed. Enjoy!

Comments: Progenitorturer

Jabberwocky – 2007-06-22: 10:32:00
he gargled with the wine and snorted the salt. He also…

purpleartichokes – 2007-06-22: 10:46:00
blew his nose on the host’s napkin…

Jabberwocky – 2007-06-22: 13:11:00
and then he quoted the French Guard from The holy Grail and said ‘I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!’ At that outburst….

purpleartichokes – 2007-06-22: 14:00:00
Kate realized she had to do something quick to stop his further indescretions. She abruptly rose from the table, scurried over to the progenitorturer, and stuffed the snotty napkin in his…

bubbos – 2007-06-22: 15:25:00
inverted third nipple

Jabberwocky – 2007-06-22: 15:45:00
which caused him to scream in pain. He then took the turkey carcass and hurled it at…

purpleartichokes – 2007-06-22: 16:50:00
Kate’s grandma, who adeptly ducked the flying featherless fowl, and caused it to go careening across the room, knocking over the glass that held Grandpa’s spare teeth in the process, which caused Grandpa to exclaim…

Clayton – 2007-06-22: 18:36:00
“I need my Viagra!,” which confused everyone, including old widow Jones, who promptly removed her inhaler from her purse and began attempting CPR on the struggling cat, who was really a secret agent working for…

Stevenson0 – 2007-06-22: 18:46:00
CHAOS! The boyfiend jumped up and yelled “Let’s wrestlemateia!”, at which point …

purpleartichokes – 2007-06-22: 18:56:00
Grandpa chimed in and said, “Well, I may be an old toothless impotent bugger, but I’m game!” Grandpa sprung, as fast as a grandpa can spring, to his feet and lunged at…

Clayton – 2007-06-22: 19:06:00
the mutilated turkey, which old Widow Jones was now attempting to revive with electric shocks from her taser, which she had received as a gift from…

purpleartichokes – 2007-06-22: 19:36:00
President Bush, who thought that all seniors should be equipped with semi-automatic weapons, but settled for tasers. While trying to resuscitate the mass of meat and bones, Widow Jones suddenly realized the phallic qualities of “stuffing the turkey”, and turned her attentions to Grandpa. Unfortunately, she had forgotten her K-Why Jelly. Grandpa wasn’t in the mood anyway, as he had just …

Clayton – 2007-06-22: 20:04:00
the mutilated turkey, which old Widow Jones was now attempting to revive with electric shocks from her taser, which she had received as a gift from…

purpleartichokes – 2007-06-22: 20:12:00
James, who was trying to figure out why multiple posts happen. He was stumped. But Grampa quickly realized that it was all because…

Jabberwocky – 2007-06-22: 20:41:00
why read something once when reading it 3 times is so much better. But to get back to why Grandpa wasn’t in the mood, it was because he had landed in a bowl of apple jelly and assumed it was Grandma. Now it was time for dessert and…

Clayton – 2007-06-22: 21:22:00
SUDDENLY – Garrison Sergeant Major Davis kicked in the front door and exclaimed, “What in Heaven’s name have you done to my turkey?!” Apparently, there’d been so mix-up at the grocery store, when Mrs. Peterson, the local notary, had stumbled upon what she believed to be an indispensable clue as to the identity of the pharmacy technician counterspy responsible for stealing Grandpa’s hormones from the bakery, but then she remembered that an elderly woman in the photo department had given her a picture of a cat with a hospital wristband engaged in some sort of illicit act with a gooseberry cobbler from the deli. A cobbler that may in fact contain Grandpa’s missing pharmaceuticals, which upon its serving would…

petaj – 2007-06-22: 22:50:00
render the entire company with explosive diarrhoea and projectile vomiting. In the chaos that followed Grandpa mistook the remaining cranberry sauce for Grandma’s k-why jelly due to his extreme colour blindness. He immediate scooped up a handful and …

Clayton – 2007-06-22: 23:19:00
went to work on his treatise concerning time warps, prehistoric sharks, and the double negation principle, but his plan was cut short as a dozen pineapples fell on his head, knocking him unconscious and prompting old widow Jones to turn to Garrison Sergeant Major Davis, who had begun to strangle the cat, and say:

petaj – 2007-06-23: 00:31:00
“I can smell something burning, Sar’major Davis, you really must desist from spreading your wedding tackle with coconut oil and sunbaking. You’ll come to a nasty end! and it sets a worrisome example for the young uns.” Just then Grandpa came to muttering about pineapples at twice the speed of light, being relatively generally unified and not supporting string theory at all. “Eureka” he announced to the assembly who were still clutching their guts and trying to avoid slipping in what they had just voided. “Kate you must not marry this progenitorturer, until he returns triumphant from a quest. He must prove himself worthy by …”

Jabberwocky – 2007-06-23: 00:47:00
gathering together all the verbotomists in a steel lined cell and mind melding their idiosyncrasies into one superhuman nurosies.. thus

Stevenson0 – 2007-06-23: 01:20:00
we must figure how to get them altogether. One way is to have a transitive verb, intransitive verb ,proper noun, common noun, adjective and adverb contest. James! Inform them of the contest. They will come. James informed them all by e-mail on the 23rd of June 2007 and…

Clayton – 2007-06-23: 02:56:00
sat back and watched the fireworks. Only then shall the turkey, the cat, Kate, her progenitorturer, Grandma, Grandpa, old widow Jones, Garrison Sergeant Major Davis, Mrs. Peterson the notary, and the rest of the unnamed characters in this story, who we will assume also includes a disgruntled Ma and a dipsomaniac Pa, as well as a few aunts, uncles, and cousins, truly be free. The end. We hope.

Your crumbling observer,

Weeklink

You mean, it’s okay if I’m a totally obsessive-compulsive neat freak?

DEFINITION: To suddenly discover that your most troublesome personality defect, for which you have been taking medication and/or therapy, is actually your greatest asset.

You mean, it's okay if I'm a totally obsessive-compulsive neat freak?

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Winfirmity: /win-fir-mit-ee/ Janet realised her Tourette’s Syndrome was a huge winfirmity when she became a phone sex operator. Etymology: win (or winning) + infirmity Created by: wysware.

Oddvantage: /od’ van tej/ The moment he read the classified ad for the position as a corporate doorstop, Bob’s lack of arms and legs turned from a handicap into an oddvantage. Etymology: odd + advantage Created by: jboehnker.

Incapacitasky: /in-ca-pa-si-tas-ky/ She was delirious when she found a position that embraced her inacpacitasky Etymology: incapacity + task Created by: Jabberwocky.

Abnormacea: /ab-nor-muh-see-uh/ The abnormacea of the situation was somewhat ironic. Etymology: abnormal + panacea Created by: Stevenson0.

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=defect

Be Creative,

James

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

Hurry! Get in line!

DEFINITION: v.tr. To join a line-up of people just because the line is there, even though you have no idea what line is for.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Queueriosity: /curiosity/ Gavin’s queueriosity eventually led to his downfall. He joined a police line-up and was identified by the witness as the offender. Etymology: queue + curious Created by: petaj.

Linetrancing: /line-transing/ Sue spent her weekends linetrancing at the mall. Any line would do. Once she got to the end she would immediately find another one. Etymology: line + trance + line dance Created by: Jabberwocky.

Queuepidity: /queuepidity/ He fluttered with anticipation when saw the line stretching around the corner. What were they waiting for? And then surrendered to his queuepidity. Tow hours later he received a coupon for a free coffee. He was thrilled! Etymology: queue + cupid + stupid Created by: jrogan.

Alignternize: /a-line-er-ize/ The only way Freddy could meet people was to join a random line and talk to people because they were a non-moving captive audience forced to listen to him. He would alignternize himself every time he came across people queueing up for anything. Etymology: line + align + fraternize Created by: Stevenson0.

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=line

Be Creative,

James

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