Verboticisms

Created by: crissxross

Pronunciation: semiloozhun

Sentence: I came to the semilusion that her father's a pre-teen. Isn't in vitro fertilization amazing?

Etymology: semi + conclusion

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Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: Stu-fa-conc

Sentence: I think it's a stufaconc, I made

Etymology: STUpid FAst CONClusion

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Created by: nonpossumus

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: kon-ver-SUMP-shun

Sentence: After overhearing his boss say that he was going to fire "the corpulent sloth", Bob, unfortunately, made a conversumption and resigned from his position on the day before he was to be promoted.

Etymology: conversation, assumption

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: self-a-ware

Sentence: Bill became cellfaware while listening to his girlfriend's half of her conversation with her other boyfriend.

Etymology: cell + self-aware

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Created by: Kirubeza

Pronunciation: kohn-ver-ee-akt

Sentence: Having secretly eavesdropped on Melissa's side of her chat with her best friend Jane (about her recently deceased hamster, Toby), Martin completely converreacted and wholeheartedly believed that he was being rejected...

Etymology: Conversation and Overreact mashed together :)

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Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: pre-joo-kloo-sjin

Sentence: Doug went off on some prejuclusion because he didn't have the facts.

Etymology: portmanteau of "prejudice" and "conclusion"

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Created by: danboaz

Pronunciation: dis-fOn-kshun

Sentence: She was crippled by disphonection, always thinking peolpe were talking about her.

Etymology: disfunction + phone

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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: Nosila

Pronunciation: tel haf fone heer

Sentence: Sid usually got the gists of telephone conversations he heard wrong. He would tellhalfonehear one thing when the opposite was actually what was said.

Etymology: Telephone (transmitting speech at a distance) & Teel (say) & Half (partially) & Hear (listen/pay attention)

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