Verboticisms

Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: DEM eul ANG gwish

Sentence: I am now left to my demolanguish as I witness the destruction I have caused.

Etymology: anguish or angst: mental suffering or stress demolish: destroy something languish: the withering away of or deterioration of something

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Axe its

Sentence: Shwreck opened the shredder to show me the scads of little axe blades, swinging up and down the documents, turning them into axits. Too late, I realized that monster Shwreck, with his weapon the shredder, had axited the file the boss wanted immediately. The Boss, Mr Haxle, was not amused when I dumped the axits in his in-box. My axiety was justified. I got the ax!

Etymology: AXES to BITS creates AXITS. Documents AXITED, (verb play on exited, permanently), create AXIETY, that anxiety caused when needed documents no longer exist, except as axits.

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Created by: twocent

Pronunciation: sin-till-AH-tri-shun

Sentence: Upon pressing the delete key, Pam's eyes glazed with an uneasy scintillattrition.

Etymology: scintilla: a speck, shred or particle attrition: a wearing down or regret for sin arising from fear of retribution

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: iliməang(k)shəs

Sentence: Every time Trish sits down at her computer she fears that she will accidentally delete an important document that she can hardly do any work. She is so eliminanxious that she has a attaché full of thumb drives and CDs with back-ups of her data and stacks documents she has printed ”just in case”.

Etymology: elimination (completely remove or get rid of something) + anxious (experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness)

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Created by: thegoatisbad

Pronunciation: oops-bli-ter-ate

Sentence: Rather calmly, Kimberly noticed "I just oopsbliterated the entire server."

Etymology: oops (accidental expression) + obliterate (wipe out)

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: shred-ded-WAT

Sentence: Marvin, in his obsession to protect himself from identity fraud, commited a major shreddedWHAT when he realized his marriage liscense was in his pile of bank statements to be shredded. His wife gave the typical response to him when she exclaimed, "You shredded WHAT!?!"

Etymology: play on shredded wheat: cereal + exclamation WHAT!!

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COMMENTS:

Cute! - ErWenn, 2008-03-05: 09:35:00

very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-05: 10:55:00

Serial shredders eliciting cries of shreddedwhat! Great pun = Great fun! This is a wonderful won! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:51:00

Great! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-05: 19:35:00

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Created by: kalisnowflake

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I was overwhelmed with ohcrappage when I closed my essay without saving.

Etymology:

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Created by: XMbIPb

Pronunciation: /an-i-hi-pre-shen/

Sentence: As the first fat flies began to buzz around the bloody body and brain chunks, Dorothy dimly wondered if dismembering Scarecrow with a chainsaw was really a good idea. “Well, he shouldn’t have finished his sentences with prepositions,” she thought to herself and felt a bit better. By the time her little car crossed into Kansas, the ANNIHIPRESSION she felt almost completely lifted and she was looking forward to seeing Mom and Dad again.

Etymology: ANNIHILATION – (fr. Old Fr.) complete destruction, to reduce to nothing; DEPRESSION - a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencie

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: inn sh reg yew lus

Sentence: she was totally inshredulous over what she had done. She had told werself over and over again "Left hand, letters from asshole ex-boyfriend. Right hand, winning lotto ticket". Over and over again....

Etymology: incredulous, shred.

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COMMENTS:

A lot of good words based on "shred" today. - ErWenn, 2008-03-05: 09:35:00

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-05: 10:52:00

Incredibly good! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-05: 13:42:00

Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-06: 04:35:00

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Created by: Ritalinda

Pronunciation: oop'-so-ly-sis'-o-pho'-bia

Sentence: The paper, all the paper, endless paper. They lawyers, all the lawyers, endless lawyers. The shredder--hours and hours at the shredder. So confusing, and out of Valium. Indeed, this was the prescription for an inevitable and intractable oopsolysisophobia.

Etymology: oops--comment associated with an accidental act. lysis--Greek term for separation or tearing. Phobia--an anxiety.

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