Verboticisms

Created by: alphabetapolothology

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Created by: mangos123

Pronunciation: NUR-null

Sentence: The girl wants a nurnelle for her birthday this year.

Etymology: I just randomly said it one time. It means a bunny-cat-elephant-camel like animal. I dont know how to change the definition up there. If you know how, can you leave it in the comment box? Also, I can't find out how to make a new word after I made this one!!! :(

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Created by: Banky

Pronunciation: vahp-ah-rot-see

Sentence: The cubicle walls appeared to waver and then fix, and spots began to appear at the edges of Robert's sight. The worst headache of his life was beginning to effect his vision. He tasted blood in his mouth and realized he had nearly bitten through his lip. A peal of shrieking laughter washed over the wall from the adjacent cubicle. "I can't believe she left Ryan Phillipe! He's so cute!", squealed a nasally laser voice. "And did you see Kirstie Alley got dropped from Jenny Craig for getting fat again." the other gasped with breathless exhileration. Robert had done all he could; he had taken the issue to his supervisor, to HR, to the anonymous complaint line, but no one seemed concerned with the fact that the mind-splitting caterwauling day in and day out had prevented Robert from finishing the same report for three weeks straight. He swore he could hear their giggling in his sleep, and as his bloodshot eyes flicked aimlessly around the cubicle, the fabric walls beginning to get closer, as he looked desperately for a way out. A day later the headlines would declare "Lesbian Network Support Pair Found at HP in Apparent Murder-suicide". Photographs showed the Blade server unit used to bludgeon Marie, and the ethernet cable Darlene had managed to hang herself with. As he wiped the last traces of the tawdry note he had left at the scene from his thumb drive, and demolished it with a hammer, Robert thought that the two vaparazzi would be proud. Instead of reading sensational headlines, they were now making them.

Etymology: vapid + paparazzi

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Frightfully good sentence. Your sentences make me wonder if you are a professional author of mysteries and murder mysteries! Vaparazzi is so fun to say and evokes lots of mind play! Excellent etymology and creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 11:33:00

Thanks for the compliment, but I'm just a scientist...I obviously do enjoy writing the stories, though. Quite possibly as much as making up the words, as witnessed by this exceedingly long Tolstoy (in length only, not quality) - Banky, 2008-02-15: 12:19:00

Your colleagues are in for a treat if you write your scientific papers as interestingly and excitingly as you write here! I was stunned you are not a professional author of fiction! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 20:36:00

Like a modern-day Edgar Allen Poe. Creepy, but ultimately satisfying story. Great Verboticism too! - Tigger, 2008-02-15: 22:38:00

Great word and tale! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-17: 16:53:00

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Created by: loxhobabl

Pronunciation: star-lay-zur

Sentence: Kids nowadays are such starlazers because they emulate lives of celebs when they should set their own paths.

Etymology: star: a celebrity or famous person lazy: shiftless; low ambition in life

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Created by: DeltaRho2K

Pronunciation: sim' - joo - gate

Sentence: Her son simjugates himself into his Rune Scape world, so mom had to take his computer privileges away in order to get him to do his homework. Also may be used as a noun as in: The aged simjugate dressed up in his undersized Spock shirt to attend the Over 40 Trekkie convention. Can also be used in adjective form: The simjugated woman wept for 3 straight days after John's death on her "Days of our Lives" show.

Etymology: Sim - as in living life through "The Sims". -jugate - from conjugate - to join

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Great sentence! Great originality ... in presenting this aspect! Nice one! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 20:43:00

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Created by: TheStorialist

Pronunciation: MAYR-ih-lin-mawn-ROH-ment (esp. breathlessly)

Sentence: I foolishly chose to wear a skirt on a windy day, and nearly had a Marilynmonroment.

Etymology: Finnish.

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Created by: ahem85

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Created by: lauram22

Pronunciation: ce-le-bre-man-ia

Sentence: Jenny has celebremania, she is obsessed with celebs!

Etymology: celeb- a famous person re- mania- excessice addiction

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /laɪmˌlaɪt.lɪŋ/

Sentence: He considered retiring from the public eye as the near-constant pestering by limelightlings was getting on his nerves. The two or three e-mails per week were just too much for one man to handle and stay sane. Somebody even recognized him at the store last month!

Etymology: From limelight + -ling, reminiscent of lighning

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COMMENTS:

Limelightling bug! Ingenious! You have my adoration for your creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 10:20:00

Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-17: 16:50:00

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Created by: milorush

Pronunciation: (n.) tom-kat-uh-tohn-ee-uh; (adj.) tom-kat-uh-tahn-ik

Sentence: Myra presented with definite signs of tomkatatonia after several days of cruising the internet for fresh images of baby Suri.

Etymology: Tomkat (a media-created portmanteau that refers to the media-created mania surrounding the relationship of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes) + [cat]atonia

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COMMENTS:

Your creation leaves us spellbound! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 10:45:00

Great, funny word - Banky, 2008-02-15: 12:22:00

good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-17: 16:51:00

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