Month: January 2012

DEFINITION: n. A person who lives in their car because they have lost their home. v. To live in your car.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Afordablehousing: /aff ohr dab il how zing/ He found the afordablehousing very spacious after living for years in his folkswagon Etymology: aFORDable Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Afordablehousing:

scrabbelicious, 2012-01-27: 14:56:00
Watch my lips. This craic’ed me up.

Carpartment: /car-part-ment/ Sam Snickerly, would have gotten a larger automobile had he known it was going to be a carpartment for his entire family. Etymology: Car- An automobile.
Apartment-A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household. Created by: abrakadeborah.

Comments on Carpartment:

abrakadeborah, 2012-01-31: 00:46:00
:)Thanks you all! I need to show up more often with my right brain.

Villahicle: /vee la hik el/ Summers down by the lake, winters in trailer parks…waking up miles away from where you went to bed, that’s the life. Our villahicle is the true meaning of detached housing. We are upwardly mobile…well, mobile, anyway! Etymology: Villa (suburban detached domicile) & Vehicle (mode of transport) Created by: Nosila.

Apartmobile: /uh-pahrt-moh-beel/ The sales rep spends so much time in her car that she has decked it out as an apartmobile. The bins of snacks and stack of extra cloths are bad enough but recently she has been nagging her husband to figure out how to adapt a mini-fridge and microwave to install in the back seat. Etymology: apartment (set of rooms for rent ) + mobile(movable, traveling) Created by: artr2.

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DEFINITION: n. Creams, potions, and other concoctions which allegedly make you look younger by removing wrinkles, tightening the skin, and removing age spots. v. To apply creams to your skin in a desperate attempt to make yourself look younger.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Hocuspotion: /hoh-kuhs-poh-shuhn/ Despite numerous clues to the contrary Emma fully believes in her favorite hocuspotion to maintain her youthful appearance. Etymology: hocuspocus (sleight of hand) + potion (concoction prepared for mental or physical effect) Created by: artr2.

Koldskream: /cold-screem/ Poor old Trinkle Wilskins’s imported caviar Koldskream gave her quite a fright. She could not figure out why when she looked in the mirror…her Mother appeared instead. Etymology: Cold spelled with a K. and Scream spelled with a K. to be a version of coldcream- Coldcream – a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin
cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream
emollient, ointment, cream – toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin. *If it doesn’t erase 50 years off your face you’ll end up screaming. Created by: abrakadeborah.

Pondsdeleon: /ponds de leeon/ Mother had used her cold cream since anyone could remember, faithfully twice a day, after cleansing. When she looked in the mirror, she saw herself as a younger woman, then the 89 year old person everyone else saw. She always called her beauty secret her pondsdeleon, instead of admitting the fact that she really should get some glasses. Etymology: Pond’s (cold cream used since last century to moisturize skin make it appear youthful) & Ponce de Leon (Spanish explorer who sought the Fountain of Youth, by leading first European expedition to Florida) Created by: Nosila.

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James

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DEFINITION: v. To secretly take a photo of someone with your cellphone. n. A cellphone photo, especially if it was taken surreptitiously.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Surrepicturious: /sur-uh-pik-cher-uhs/ The proliferation of camera phones has meant an explosion of surrepicturious moments. Etymology: surreptitious(obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized) + picture (photograph) Created by: artr2.

Smartshot: /smɑːtːʃɒt/ Buster became very swift with the old 1:2, or was it 4:3? It didn’t matter, the smartshot was another knockout. Etymology: Smart : Clever like a phone, ring like a good verbotomy word. Shot : Photograph, perhaps cheap. Also to strike a blow, esp. in boxing. Created by: scrabbelicious.

Photosecrosy: // I just hate People commiting Photosecrosy! Etymology: Created by: tripnfallpivot.

Eyepawed: /eye pod/ Electronic devices have been a God-send for shy and somewhat bizarre people like Julie. When she gets a crush on some hot guy in her school (like a new one each week…way out of her league), she follows him around and secretly takes pics of him for her to daydream over. These poor guys don’t even know they are being eyepawed by a stalker like Julie. Doesn’t she watch CSI or Criminal Minds? This is how they eventually takedown people like her when the restraining order is enforced. Etymology: Eye Pawed (to touch/drool over with your eyes) & Wordplay on iPod (portable media device range of products produced by Apple Inc, including ones with camera connectors) Created by: Nosila.

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James

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DEFINITION: v. To secretly take a photo of someone with your cellphone. n. A cellphone photo, especially if it was taken surreptitiously.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Smartshot: /smɑːtːʃɒt/ Buster became very swift with the old 1:2, or was it 4:3? It didn’t matter, the smartshot was another knockout. Etymology: Smart : Clever like a phone, ring like a good verbotomy word. Shot : Photograph, perhaps cheap. Also to strike a blow, esp. in boxing. Created by: scrabbelicious.

Surrepicturious: /sur-uh-pik-cher-uhs/ The proliferation of camera phones has meant an explosion of surrepicturious moments. Etymology: surreptitious(obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized) + picture (photograph) Created by: artr2.

Photosecrosy: // I just hate People commiting Photosecrosy! Etymology: Created by: tripnfallpivot.

Eyepawed: /eye pod/ Electronic devices have been a God-send for shy and somewhat bizarre people like Julie. When she gets a crush on some hot guy in her school (like a new one each week…way out of her league), she follows him around and secretly takes pics of him for her to daydream over. These poor guys don’t even know they are being eyepawed by a stalker like Julie. Doesn’t she watch CSI or Criminal Minds? This is how they eventually takedown people like her when the restraining order is enforced. Etymology: Eye Pawed (to touch/drool over with your eyes) & Wordplay on iPod (portable media device range of products produced by Apple Inc, including ones with camera connectors) Created by: Nosila.

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DEFINITION: v. To fight with your neighbors, not because of your differences, and not because of what you have in common, but simply because you are stuck right next to each other. n. A border between neighbors and enemies.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Imaginotline: /e:mág:on:á:lie:n/ Relations between Manfred and Tobefrank got so bad, almost unimaginably bad, that the local neighbourhood watch insisted they increase the width of their imaginotline or move to another ghetto. Etymology: A truce declared between 1-) Imagine: To conceive or form an image in one’s own mind. 2-)Maginot line
a line of defensive fortifications constructed by the French along their eastern border, extending from Switzerland to Luxembourg, between 1929 and 1936.
• [as n. ] (also Maginot line) an impressive but often ineffectual means of protection or defense Created by: scrabbelicious.

Proxenemies: /proksenuhmeez/ A deep snow, hours of shoveling and a limited number of parking spaces can make proxenemies out of previously-friendly neighbors. Etymology: proximity (nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation) + enemies (an adversary or opponent) Created by: artr2.

Frenemal: /fren e mal/ The relationship with my neighbors is frenemal. If his sprinklers keep hitting my car I’m going to get frenmal on him! The smoke from the barbeque wafted over frenemal lines. Etymology: Frenemy (friends and enemies). Animal, as in animal behavior, not intelligent, savage. Created by: spotter.

Fencenemies: /fen sen em ees/ The neighbours often saw the Browns & The Smiths next door to them fighting over petty things, like in whose yard whose cat toiletted and whose tree was overhanging whose yard. The walkway between their yards was like the Demilitarized Zone…neutral but dangerous with the possibility of being caught in the crossfire. Their parents always said they fought tooth and nail growing up and now they were fencenemies. Just what possessed this brother and sister to buy homes next door to each other is still a mystery. Etymology: Fence (a boundary line created by a fence) & Enemies (not friends;any group of hostile people) Created by: Nosila.

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James

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