Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: n., The deep feeling of despair, pain, and swelling need for revenge, which occurs when someone thoughtlessly trashes one of your pet projects. v., To cry out at the injustice of it all, especially if it is someone else's fault.
Verboticisms
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Vexasperation
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /vek-zas-puh-rey-shun/
Sentence: Charlie had been painstakingly working on his replica F-14 Tomcat model airplane for months, but while he was away at school today, his little brother must have found it and tried to fly it. The model was now utterly ruined, and Charlie roared in vexasperation.
Etymology: vex - to torment or distress (from Latin, vexus "agitation") + exasperation - the state of being agitated or annoyed (from Latin, exasperatus "thoroughly irritated")
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COMMENTS:
Your add a letter to blend two words that are so appropriate to the definition almost made me give up before I started. Great create! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:22:00
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:51:00
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Inrage
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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Recipatrocity
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: reh/si/pa/traw/sitee
Sentence: "All the sweet green icing flowing down" she wailed. "no matter that you look like Harry Potter, I demand recipatrocity" " "Also you'll have to pay for drycleaning because the green icing turned my yellow cotton dress blue."
Etymology: recipe + atrocity + reciprocity
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COMMENTS:
Excellent choice of three words then so cleverly blended! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:15:00
great word and I don't even know Pat - galwaywegian, 2008-02-06: 07:43:00
Love the sentence; great word blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:42:00
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Blament
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation: blah-meant
Sentence:
Etymology: blame/lament
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COMMENTS:
I like your creation. Wish you had created a sentence with it. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 16:38:00
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Miseridiscardia
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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Emoterise
Created by: Dougalistic
Pronunciation: E-moat-er-eyes
Sentence: So cut my wrists and black my eyes. So I can fall asleep tonight, or die. Because you kill me. You know you do, you kill me well. You like it too, and I can tell. You never stop until my final breath is gone.' OMG I hate my life!! why am I emoterised!!!' .. Errr Sarah, it's just a nail..
Etymology: Emo - Short for 'emotional', also a genre of music which depicts death and pain and basically want to end your life music.
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COMMENTS:
Rude drivers, and careless ones on their cell phones, certainly emoterise this driver! I will certainly use this word, this way, a lot. Great creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:36:00
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Khaan
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɑɑɑn/
Sentence: The power went out last night while I was halfway through an unsaved project, and I became so filled with khaan that I left a handprint on my mouse.
Etymology: 2008, from Khan Noonien Singh, character in the television series "Star Trek" (1967) and in the film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982), whose name was famously screamed by Captain Kirk. Khan's first name is possibly coined from khan (n.), c.1400,
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COMMENTS:
Very unique and stunning in it's simplicity ... once I read the etymology ... I got it! Finally! Very unique! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:38:00
Eponymic words, a great way to go! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:32:00
Apparently I exceeded the character limit on the etymology here. And the sentence is absolutely true. Except that I really had only just started the project. And I didn't actually deform my mouse. And I guess I wasn't really all that upset either. - ErWenn, 2008-02-06: 23:19:00
I try to change it up every now and then. Only so much portmanteau I can take, so sometimes I try to coin words after people, conjugate or rearrange phrases (a la Mustang's "heartwrench"), or piece together a word from prefixes, roots, and suffixes (as in "necrohippoflict"). Sadly, I rarely get any votes when I do. - ErWenn, 2008-02-06: 23:22:00
Anyone have any other gimmicks that they use to construct words? - ErWenn, 2008-02-06: 23:23:00
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Victimdictive
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vik dim dik tiv
Sentence: Betty felt understandably victimdictive because the regrettable MacArthur Park incident gave a whole new meaning to the phrase "cake batter".
Etymology: victim (an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance) & vindictive (revengeful)
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COMMENTS:
Nice strong verboticism that nailed the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:17:00
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-06: 11:52:00
good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:51:00
Cheers,all! Nosila - Nosila, 2008-02-06: 18:59:00
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Ficpugnetclam
Created by: roulouken331
Pronunciation: Fick- pug- net- clam
Sentence: I made my siter ficpugnetclam so much, when I ripped her favorite tulip paper, that my mother had to bring her to a therapist and priest to make her calm down.
Etymology: Fic- to make Pugn- fight et- and clam- cry out
Dessertion
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)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Dougalistic. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James
perfect visual with the drawing for today!!And i understand that old song a little better, too!
Yes, the sweet green icing is flowing down... Oh no!!!!!! ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-02-06: 16:05:00
The face and fists were an excellent portrayal of her anger and frustration! I tried to match that drama in your caricature with the words in my sentence. Very inspiring!
And I will never have that recipe again! Thank you silveryaspen! ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-11-25: 11:53:00
So many great creates every day by such excellent wordsmiths, that I have trouble voting because it's hard to limit my choice for best to just two! I'm also amazed at all the new creations for the temporary re-run of old definitions! Almost proves everything is better the second time around!
Today's definition was suggested by Dougalistic. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James