Verboticisms

Created by: novaspectyr

Pronunciation: an/TIK/wiss/ment

Sentence: The memory of their brief flirtation caused her such antiquissment that she could barely look him in the eye.

Etymology: antiquity + embarrassment

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: embarājment

Sentence: The surprise birthday party created nothing but embarragement. The truth came out when someone calculated that Suzie’s son would have been born when she was 4 years old.

Etymology: embarrassment (a feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness) + age (the length of time that a person has lived)

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: lie oc you lar dee jen er a shun

Sentence: Lothario loved the ladies. They were always first on his AGEnda. Seeing his silvery roots, gold-in-teeth with their age gaps, along with his lead bottom, ladies guesstimated his age breakit was in the 80's. The ladies gave him the cold shoulder, placing him in the ice age, making him start another lies age. Despite his best efforts, the laides considered him beyond the age of consent. Lothario, not only suffered from red-eyed macular degeneration, he suffered from red-lied lieoculardegeneration.

Etymology: Macular Degeneration - disease that can come with aging. Lie - to refrain from the telling the truth, particularly about one's age. Ocular - of the eye and sight which sometimes is not fooled. Degeneration - deterioration, not only from aging, but also social deterioration from embarrassment over age. Generation - another synonym for age.

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COMMENTS:

Lothario eventually met his perfect match ... lies age Delielah. - silveryaspen, 2008-11-28: 01:19:00

This one is quite a mouthful... :-p - logarithm, 2008-11-28: 01:48:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: (h)yoōmilēājd

Sentence: Joyce was humiliaged when her coworkers threw her a surprise party. Somebody was clever enough to obtain a copy of the newspaper from the day she was born,as registered with HR, not what she had been telling people for years. OOPS! Busted!

Etymology: humiliate (make someone feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and self-respect) + aged (that has been subjected to aging)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: em-bar-uh-buh-sted

Sentence: When her coworkers threw her a birthday party Joan was embarrabusted when her true age was emblazoned on the cake.

Etymology: embarrassed (uncomfortably self-conscious) + busted (caught)

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Created by: boviex

Pronunciation: embrej alt. embrAge

Sentence: She was embraged when she discovered that her age was no secret. When she saw the number of candles on the cake, her heart filled with embrage.

Etymology: Take your pick. Embarass(ment)/Age/Umbrage/(En)rage

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Created by: DaddyNewt

Pronunciation: cha/GRIN/a/myt

Sentence: Betty's chagrinamite was obvious behind her wrinkled facade.

Etymology: chagrin + mite

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: hue-mil-ee-AYJ-skam

Sentence: Naomi experienced a major attack of humiliagescam when she realized toward the end of the evening that most of the folks at the party knew she had taken ten years off her age in an earlier discussion.

Etymology: blend of 'humiliate' (to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes : mortify) 'age' and 'scam' (a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation)

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Created by: dochanne

Pronunciation: Dis com bob you lage

Sentence: When Helen opened the door she was pleasantly surprised to find her friends waiting with a cake, until her eye caught the smirk on Jame's face and her joy turned to discombobulage: was that a "40" candle?

Etymology: Discombobulate: to upset, fluster or distress Age: how many trips around the sun one has lived through

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COMMENTS:

Don't I know you from somewhere ? - emdeejay, 2008-12-01: 02:55:00

That sounds like a pick-up line :) - dochanne, 2008-12-04: 13:06:00

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Created by: sheepsshouldfly

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