Month: October 2011

DEFINITION: v. To pick up a piece of lint from the floor that your vacuum missed, and then drop it in front of the vacuum again, to give the vacuum another chance to suck it up. n. A piece of lint that a vacuum will not pick up.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Sonnovalint: /son-of-a-lint/ No matter how many times I tried, I just couldn’t get that sonnovalint off the carpet. Etymology: son-of-a: a pest or annoying; lint – randoms found on the floor. Created by: youmustvotenato.

Resuckle: /ree – suk – l/ Gloria decided to resuckle the pieces of newspaper and lint that her gerbils had torn up. No matter how many times she kept sucking up the same debris, it kept coming back out for another round. Etymology: recycle + suck Created by: mweinmann.

Electrolax: /ee lek tro lax/ When Jane Edgar Hoover tried to clean the cat hair from her rugs, she found her vacuum cleaner became an Electrolax. That nice door-to-door salesman had showed her the tufts of cat hair he had collected with the machine he sold her. She just failed to notice by now that the ones he emptied from the demo machine were a black color…unlike her Ginger Tom, Marmalade’s, natural fur colour. Etymology: Electrolux (The Electrolux Group is a Swedish appliance maker, including vacuum cleaners) & Lax (tolerant or lenient) Created by: Nosila.

Rehoover: /rēhoōvər/ Krissie believes in fair play. She gives everyone and everything a second and maybe a third chance. When her vacuum seemed to ignore a dust bunny, she attempted to rehoover it. She then picked up and stuck it directly in the extension hose. No effect. Finally she opened the dirt receptacle and dropped it in. She then praised Hoover because she is committed to positive-reinforcement training. Etymology: re (once more; afresh; anew) + Hoover (vacuum brand) Created by: artr2.

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DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Disconnectophobia: /diskənektəfōbēə/ Jenny is connected to her BFF by the ear. If her cell isn’t stuck to the side of her face, it’s only because she is texting instead. Technology has been a godsend for them. It also has given her a bad case of disconnectophobia. The mere thought of a tech failure can make her break out in a cold sweat. Etymology: disconnect (break the connection of or between) + phobia (an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something) Created by: artr2.

Exomund: /As its spelled… Ex-o-mund/ I have been Exomunded ever since the satilite fell out of the sky. Etymology: Exo-, outside
-mund, world Created by: beardo.

Ipanic: /eye-panic/ Demetri began to iPanic as the power bled dry from his iPhone in the middle of an Angry Birds battle. Etymology: i – apple prefix for everything; panic – to panic Created by: youmustvotenato.

Antivocaphobia: /an-tie-voke-a-fobe-e-a/ the woman that was very excited about the conversation that was being held on her phone. When the train she was on went into a tunnel, her phone lost service thus she was diagnosed with antivocaphobia. Etymology: anti- not
voc- to call
phobia- to be afraid of Created by: ttime77.

Comments on Antivocaphobia:

sjacksonnnn4, 2011-10-26: 15:15:00
this word sucks..

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DEFINITION: v. To display your power in social network by picking on the weaker members of the community. n. A person who steps on other people’s toes and kicks bunnies.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Bunnatieri: /Bun-a-terry/ Dalton, throwin down his empty threats on the latest Mac v. Linux flame war, was a big-bad bunnatieri since his threatees were only grade-schoolers. Etymology: Bunny- a small domesticated mammal; Vinatieri- former place kicker of the Super Bowl winning New England Patriots Created by: youmustvotenato.

Trampleshefskin: /tram pil hefs kin/ In the swinging Sixties, many a cute girl sought fame and fortune by working at the Playboy Clubs as a Playboy Bunny.
Some girls thought they’d get more attention if they became a trampleshefskin and clawed and slept their way to the top. Some succeeded, but others found to their dismay that Hef just wanted to find somebunny to love, a different one each night, that is… Etymology: Tramp (a floozy) & Trample (injure by trampling or as if by stomping on)& Hef’s Kin (bunnies, of course) & Wordplay on Rumpelstiltskin (deceptive dwarf of Grimms; fairy tale) Created by: Nosila.

Blunderboss: /bləndərbôs/ Harry works for a complete blunderboss. She is so busy proving she is right that she doesn’t have time or interest in people’s feelings or thoughts. As she has stomped her way up the corporate ladder she has picked up the nickname of Thunderfoot. Etymology: blunderbuss (a short-barreled large-bored gun with a flared muzzle, used at short range/an action or way of doing something regarded as lacking in subtlety and precision) + boss (a person in charge of a worker or organization) Created by: artr2.

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DEFINITION: v. To enthusiastically tell and share a lame joke with an unwilling audience. n. A person who does not realize that their sense of humor is not appreciated and laughs loudly at their own jokes.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Hilariassault: /hələrēəsôlt/ Mel finds himself very funny. His friends think his humor is rather droll. Most consider his long-winded anecdotes to be hilariassault. Etymology: hilarious (extremely amusing) + assault (make a physical attack on) Created by: artr2.

Funnoying: /fun – noy – ing/ Ralph’s jokes were largely funnoying to most of his friends and colleages.
As he laughed and laughed at his own jokes, others were most often annoyed at his hyena-like wailing and failed to see what was funny. Etymology: Funny + Annoying Created by: mweinmann.

Witlesscism: /wit les sisim/ When Leonard told his girlfriend Penny about his great empty virus folder joke, she neither understood nor appreciated his witlesscism. Her nerd alert button had gone off for the last time and so she walked out on him. He was so busy on his laptop that he did not notice for 3 or 4 hours. Then the Penny dropped…him. Etymology: Witticism (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter) & Witless ((of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgmentor humour)

Created by: Nosila.

Comicentric: /com-mi-sen-trick/ Sean, fully comicentric, began hysterically laughing at inside jokes much to the annoyance of his friends who had no idea what was so funny. Etymology: comic – comedian
eccentric – strange, unconventional person Created by: youmustvotenato.

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DEFINITION: n. A person who has the highly developed ability to communicate on a direct level with any type of animal, except for human beings. v. To talk to animals because you know that communicating with people is useless.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Ostrichize: /ostrich-size/ Jennifre, engaged deep in a coversation with a snow leopard at the zoo, ignored the sneers and giggles of people passing by. The cat-whisperer, ostrichized from society, knew that her feline friends were her true companions Etymology: Ostrich + Ostracize Created by: youmustvotenato.

Comments on Ostrichize:

youmustvotenato, 2011-10-21: 10:27:00
Yes, her hippie parents named her Jennifre.

Diafrog: /dīəfrôg/ Unable to find her prince, Jessica is left talking to any number of toads. She’s been known to work her tale off on this one-sided diafrog. Etymology: dialogue (conversation between two or more people) + frog (a tailless amphibian with a short squat body, moist smooth skin, and very long hind legs for leaping) Unwilling alter ego of princes in fairy tales. Created by: artr2.

Petsperanto: /pet spur antow/ Not only could she speak petsperanto, she could tweet. Etymology: esperanto, pet Created by: galwaywegian.

Loonatic: /loon a tik/ Fauna could always understand all animal voices and in particular had a great rapport with all forms of waterfowl. She could translate duckdialect, goosegarble,swanspeak and in particular, loonlingo. In fact, the people she ignored thought her a loonatic, when she spoke loonatalk! Etymology: Wordplay on Lunatic (a crazy person;insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon) + Loon (a waterfowl)
Created by: Nosila.

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