Verboticisms

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: con-ver-play-shon

Sentence: Ray's imagination and contemplation mixed with Renna's conversation and became a converplation when he failed to get a clarification of her predication, so he developed a fabrication about elimination when the conversation was a merely a preindication of the eradication of his hamster, Jay.

Etymology: conversation: informal dialogue or discussion + contemplation: cogitation, consideration, deliberation or rumination (don'tcha just love dictionaries?)

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Excellent rodentation! - Nosila, 2009-08-21: 12:35:00

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Created by: egonschiela

Pronunciation: con-vue-zhun

Sentence: Jeremy's convusion was heightened by the fact that his girlfriend's toothbrush was missing ...

Etymology: conv (ersation) + (conf) usion

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Created by: galwaywegian

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Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: hen nee pe nal i sis

Sentence: Don't worry, and please stop with the hennypennalysis. You totally misinterpreted what you overheard.

Etymology: Henny Penny (of "the sky is falling fame) and analysis

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: te-le-sum-sjon

Sentence: Jenny listend intently on his phonecall from across the room ,and could thus telesume he would take her out to dinner. Unfortunately for him, he had no idea about any such thing...

Etymology: tele - afar assumption - make a conclusion based on limited facts

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Created by: Filthy

Pronunciation: i-ˈma-jən-fərn(t)s

Sentence: Quite the confabulation artist, Shirley made the imaginference that coffee had caused her daughter's allergy to rats after she overheard snippets of doctors' telephone conversations.

Etymology: imagined [ to form a mental image of (something not present) OR to form a notion of without sufficient basis] + inference [the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former].

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Created by: galwaywegian

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Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: fone/tasm

Sentence: A recent attack of phonetasm left him wondering whether his friend had just made a date with the Fickle Finger of Fate or perhaps the local Drag Queen.

Etymology: Variation of phantasm - false impression

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: eevz-chop-in'

Sentence: His eavesdropping led to the eaveschopping that Sandra was in cahoots with the forces of uncertain evil.

Etymology: From "eavesdropping" and "chop". Suggests a blunt analysis (geddit? ne'ermind)

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Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: sem-eye-cript-AHL-oh-gee

Sentence: Jim looked up as his wife hung up the phone. "What time," he sighed semicryptologically, "is your mother coming for dinner?"

Etymology: semi + cryptology

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