Verboticisms

Created by: Pappt002

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Created by: BrotherCaine

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Created by: fonka99

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Created by: polarpanda

Pronunciation: ah-meh-naze

Sentence: I'd like to thank The Academy, of course, but also my mother; without her amenazing I never could have completed the screenplay for "I Cleaned My Desk, but Santa Never Came."

Etymology: From Spanish amenazar "to threaten" and English amaze.

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Created by: josje

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Created by: Lyokia

Pronunciation: Ver-bu-salasity

Sentence: She used her favorite verbusality to get her kid to do her bidding.

Etymology: verbal-abuse

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: Mith-thret-en

Sentence: Since it was Xmas eve, I mythreatened the children into eating their peas.

Etymology: Myth - a fictitious story, person or thing Threaten - to promise dire consequences unless a certain course of action is taken

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Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: wyte-male

Sentence: She whitemailed me into going to the store.

Etymology: white - opposite of black mail - as in "black mail"

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Created by: sufjan

Pronunciation: foe-ti-vait

Sentence: As a child, I always worked hard due to my my grandmother's fauxtivations about the tooth fairy making my teeth fall out.

Etymology: faux-fake (mo)tivate-to encourage

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Created by: Wembler

Pronunciation: peh-tee-threaten

Sentence: Mother liked to petithreaten us to clean our rooms.

Etymology: Petite/Threaten

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