Verboticisms

Created by: logarithm

Pronunciation: ehm-bae-rej

Sentence: Imagine the embarragement Julie had at her surprise birthday party organised by her colleagues, when the number of candles on the cake correctly indicating her true age of 45, but all the while she has been telling them she was only thirty-something.

Etymology: 1) Embarrass: cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious. 2) Age: grow old or older.

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Created by: EBalser

Pronunciation: Age-io-nus

Sentence: Yesterday,I was hanging out with a bunch of 12 year olds after school and my boyfriend walked by wondering why I was, in that very moment I was agionous.

Etymology: ag-how old you are ionous-lying

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: birth-day-bash-full

Sentence: the looks on everyones faces as i started my speech with 'thankyou all for helping me celebrate my 40th birthday' made me feel very birthdaybashful

Etymology: birthday, bashful, birthday bash

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COMMENTS:

Interesting choice of words incorporated in your unique appealing tender creation. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:11:00

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Created by: emdeejay

Pronunciation: cron spiracy

Sentence: Wendy was aghast when she realised her friends had uncovered her chronspiracy. However would she live down not admitting she was really 31 !

Etymology: From the ancient Greek Chronos (The personification of time) and conspiracy

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: men day jus

Sentence: When they put the 50 candles on her birthday cake, Julie carried on her mendageious behaviour by acting all surprised and horrified that her usual 39 candles weren't on the cake!

Etymology: Mendacious (intentionally untrue;caught in a lie)& Age (how long something/someone has existed)

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /fos-si-loo-zhun/

Sentence: Although around the office, Maxine had been claiming she was only 32 for her past three birthdays, and either nobody had caught on, or they hadn't called her bluff. But her co-worker had enlisted her brother to bring the cake to the office this year, and with her true age written out for all to see, in a forest fire of candles, her fossillusion had ended right then and there.

Etymology: fossil - an old person; slang (from French, fossile "dug up") + illusion - an act of deception (from Latin, illusionem "a mocking pretense")

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COMMENTS:

lol! love the forest fire of candles! great combo! - bananabender, 2008-02-05: 03:00:00

Fascinating word that also conjures up those false illusions as we tell our wishfullie age. Fossillusion has a unique appeal. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:15:00

She could add years to her life by just telling the truth! Nice and cleverly blended word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:08:00

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Created by: ElCappa

Pronunciation: Moron-O-logic-Alice-ment

Sentence: I felt moronologicallessment after being turned away from the Liquor store. Turns out my fake ID wouldn't cut it.

Etymology: Moron - A Fool (Ch)ronological - Time related (Embar)assment - Shame

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: KAN-dl-bluhsh

Sentence: When celebrating a surprize birthday party with her twin brother, Roxie's friends found out that they were not identical: he was forty-five and she was only thirty-one! Despite her candleblush, she quickly explained to all and sundry, "I never forgotten my age - once I decided what it was to be!"

Etymology: CANDLE: (the number of) as a symbol of age on a birthday cake & BLUSH: To become red in the face through embarassment.

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COMMENTS:

Wow, fraternal twins of different ages! I think I remember hearing about that in a science documentary on the Theory of Relativity once, involving one twin travelling in a really fast spaceship. - Tigger, 2008-02-05: 02:48:00

Great word, BTW! - Tigger, 2008-02-05: 02:52:00

good one again OZZIE! - bananabender, 2008-02-05: 04:24:00

Very interesting word Ozziebob. It reminds me of some other word, but im not sure. Very soft sounding word without being too harsh. Cool! - Dougalistic, 2008-02-05: 04:52:00

Such a romantic way of putting it ... evoking the empathy we all have for each other as the years pass. Doug said it better in the last sentence of his comment ... it is so soft. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:07:00

I second all of the above! (Especially silveryaspen's comment about how romantic it sounds.) You got my vote! - Maxine, 2008-02-05: 07:26:00

Fantastic word. - ErWenn, 2008-02-05: 10:13:00

a dangerous brush with those candles - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-05: 16:39:00

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Created by: loxhobabl

Pronunciation: gile-stone

Sentence: Karen perpetrated a >guilestone at her birthday get-together.

Etymology: guile, milestone

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dee vee aje on

Sentence: Priscilla was guilty of deviageon, because she thought her co-workers had forgotten all the other years she had celebrated her 29th birthday...all of her 20 years working with them!

Etymology: deviate (be at variance with) & age (your REAL age)

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COMMENTS:

Devilish word. I like it! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 18:26:00

Nice combo. It does seem to imply a devilish intent to lie about one's age. - Tigger, 2008-02-05: 21:31:00

Wow. Definitely gets a vote from me. - Maxine, 2008-02-05: 21:39:00

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