Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: pro/ject/dee/cry

Sentence: All he could do was projectdecry when his mother came to visit and carefully stored away all his lego pieces that had formerly been a perfectly replicated Mount Everest.

Etymology: project + decry + objectify

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COMMENTS:

Interesting choice of words to blend! bit of a tongue twister when you try to say it three times real fast! Unique! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 16:44:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: blāment

Sentence: Gerry*s office has little interest in solving problems. The workers seem to want to blament more than fix, point fingers more than point the way.

Etymology: blame (assign responsibility for a fault or wrong) + lament (a passionate expression of grief or sorrow)

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COMMENTS:

I blament the claim that severe earthquakes are caused by womens' immodesty! - splendiction, 2010-04-26: 22:10:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: des ert shun

Sentence: When Serena ran over to her boyfriend Zack's place in McArthur Park, she got caught out in a dreadful downpour which soaked and ruined the birthday cake for him. She fell down and lay there crying and had a horrible feeling of dessertion. When Zack found her, she was incoherent and made no sense...just like the lyrics to that song...

Etymology: Dessert(sweet course after dinner, like cake or pudding or pie) & Desertion (the act of giving something up, due to hopelessness)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: inˈrājd

Sentence: Josh became inraged when his adversary convinced the boss to pull the plug on the project he had spent years developing. To just about everybody his stoneface expression disguised the seething revenge he was plotting.

Etymology: in (enclosed or surrounded by something else) + enraged (make very angry)

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COMMENTS:

Simple but wonderfully appropriate and memorable! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-25: 11:48:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: miz-er-e-diss-card-e-a

Sentence: Without so much as a second glance, Geraldine tossed the paper tole in the bin along with the newspapers to be recycled. It wasn't until her sister, crazed with miseridiscardia, came at her with a dagger and babbling about her cutouts that Geraldine realised what she had done.

Etymology: misericordia (a dagger used to give the death wound; mercy from wretched heart) + misery (wretchedness) + discard (throw away)

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COMMENTS:

Excellent word! I happen to live near Misericordia University. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 10:00:00

I haven't seen many words derived from ancient armour terminology. Wow! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 11:05:00

Miseridigscompany! - Nosila, 2008-11-26: 02:11:00

you will think of the university in a whole new light now - petaj, 2008-11-26: 02:43:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: roon-raje

Sentence: Andy was beside himself with ruinrage. Just as his toothpick model of the Eiffel Tower was almost complete, his neighbor burst into the den and knocked over the card table it rested on. Thousands of hours of work and 85,000,000 toothpicks flew around the room. As if by instinct, Andy went for his throat.

Etymology: Ruin (an irrecoverable state of devastation) + Rage (is a mental state that is one extreme of the intensity spectrum of anger)

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: sŭ'roul

Sentence: When Jenny discovered that none of her data had been backed up before the catastrophic system failure, she let out a deep, guttural sorrowl which could be heard echoing throughout the neighborhood. David heard the cry penetrating his walls, almost a block away, and wondered if perhaps there was a birthing bovine somewhere in the area.

Etymology: SORROW (Mental suffering or pain caused by injury, loss, or despair.) + HOWL (To utter or emit a long, mournful, plaintive sound)

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Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: Roo-vin-ge

Sentence: After Pete's flambe set off the sprinkling system, Carol's jello mold was ruined and she was overwhelmed with ruevenge.

Etymology: Combination of "rue" and "revenge"

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mak arth ur park in sons

Sentence: Out for a walk in Mac Arthur Park, Phoebe tried to forget about the lovely cake she had just made. Although it took so long to bake it, her brother had destroyed it. He was not well and had macarthurparkinsoned the hapless confection. Melting in the dark, all the sweet green icing flowing down...those lyrics made as little sense to him as this does to us...

Etymology: MacArthur Park (song by Jimmy Webb) & Parkinson's Disease (a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination)

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COMMENTS:

I like it, even with the extra \"in\". - artr, 2010-04-26: 12:00:00

Sweet use of that "someone left the cake out in the rain" song! - splendiction, 2010-04-26: 22:06:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: HART-ringr

Sentence: It was yet another heartwringer for Miriam, leaving her feeling crushed, and somewhat revengeful when her boyfriend Delbert told her her upside down cake looked right side up, her apple tarts were bland, and her teriyaki was teriyucky.

Etymology: Blend of heart and wringer..."a painful, difficult, or tiring experience; ordeal"

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