Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fāsərk

Sentence: As a member of the class reunion planning committee Diane is fielding quite a few new requests to be ”friends”. She has had to block more people than a halfback as her irritating former classmates faceirk her with the details of their politics and/or boring lives.

Etymology: face (the front part of a person\'s head from the forehead to the chin) irk (irritate; annoy) a play on facebook

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Snob-ree-late-ing

Sentence: She knew she had risen above them but couldnt help indulging in a bit of snobrelating with the riffraff

Etymology: Snob - relate

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: non + shall + ont

Sentence: I nonchalhaunted a few people I went to school with... maybe I'll get together with them, maybe not.

Etymology: nonchalant + haunt

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: deja/dupe

Sentence: Joe was a victim and total loser in high school and fifteen years has passed. He discovered Face-Book and began seeking out and contacting "old friendships and acquaintances" only to find he was dejaduping and renewing old hostilities toward himself.

Etymology: DEJADUPE - verb - from DEJA VU (an impression of having seen, or experienced something before) + DUPE (a person who is easily deceived, or victimized)

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Created by: jimtastic

Pronunciation: on-LINE-en-stalken

Sentence: While onleinenstalken in his underpants on a Saturday night from the computer in his bedroom in his mom’s basement, Jeremy finally found the girl that left the company four years ago on MySpace and sent her a creepy “I miss you” message.

Etymology: A Finnish phrase - now popular in many internet cafes located just below the arctic circle - derived from the English phrase "Online Stalker".

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Created by: Nettle

Pronunciation: may-so-nos-tal-gee-meet

Sentence: Mary shook her head as she watched Alex searching for people on Facebook. His periodically rose-tinted view of his school days had driven him to masonostalgimeeting again, a path filled with nothing but the painful memories of past humiliation.

Etymology: masochism + nostalgia + meet, although I've twisted the meaning of masochism a little bit because masonostalgimeeting is rarely the kind of pain anybody's going to enjoy.

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Created by: Batavier

Pronunciation: Bragon-tact

Sentence: "I really don't like this guy, but I'm too polite to ignore him, so I'd better add him to my contactlist", said John to his girlfriend. "Be sure to put him in the Bragontact group then, so we don't accidentily invite him for our wedding", she replied.

Etymology: Brag + contact

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Created by: kearstin

Pronunciation: why-seek-you

Sentence: Sometimes when I am bored at work I will whycq and waste time looking for old crushes or cheerleaders - it makes me happy to know which ones got fat and which ones are in jail.

Etymology: why+seek+you a bad mashup that touches on the all important question one always asks AFTER contacting old acquaintances...why?

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: so-shul-net-jerk

Sentence: Tom was a socialnetjerk. He had no life or real friends, so he spent countless hours finding old classmates on facebook and sending them friend requests, ihearts and farmville invitations, proving that he was still a dork after 15 years.

Etymology: social network: facebook, myspace - a place to meet and interact with friends on the internet + jerk: foolish, rude or contemptible person

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: deja/dupe

Sentence: Tommy was a victim and total loser in high school and fifteen years has passed. He discovered Face-Book and began dejaduping his way through all the names seeking old friendships and acquaintances to renew hostilities toward himself.

Etymology: deja vu + dupe

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