Verboticisms

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: con-ver-play-shon

Sentence: Ray's imagination and contemplation mixed with Renna's conversation and became a converplation when he failed to get a clarification of her predication, so he developed a fabrication about elimination when the conversation was a merely a preindication of the eradication of his hamster, Jay.

Etymology: conversation: informal dialogue or discussion + contemplation: cogitation, consideration, deliberation or rumination (don'tcha just love dictionaries?)

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Excellent rodentation! - Nosila, 2009-08-21: 12:35:00

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Created by: Mirandala

Pronunciation: oh-ver-hee'-re-see

Sentence: When Jack secretly listened to Sharon's phone call and concluded that she was having an affair, but that was just overhearesy.

Etymology: overheard + heresy

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COMMENTS:

Well, I would have prefered overheresay, but I always prefer old english pronounciations =) You get a point anyway, it's a cool word! - allwise, 2007-01-18: 03:45:00

Well, I would have prefered overheresay, but I always prefer old english pronounciations =) You get a point anyway, it's a cool word! - allwise, 2007-01-18: 03:46:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: wənvərsāshən

Sentence: According to the oneversation Jill was either planning a surprise party for her friend Nicky or the covert overthrow of Nicaragua though the latter would seem less complicated.

Etymology: one (the lowest cardinal number; half of two) + conversation (the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words)

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Created by: onceinabluemoon88

Pronunciation: thank - seas

Sentence: thankies for that pencil

Etymology:

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Created by: crissxross

Pronunciation: semiloozhun

Sentence: I came to the semilusion that her father's a pre-teen. Isn't in vitro fertilization amazing?

Etymology: semi + conclusion

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: miss con str eeves drop

Sentence: Danny always had one ear on someone else's conversation to the point that he was known as the office misconstreevesdropper.

Etymology: from misconstrue and eavesdropping

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Created by: riflesandkids74

Pronunciation: cahn-floo-shun

Sentence: "If you would really listen to me, we could easily avoid such conflusion."

Etymology: confuse + conclusion

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: heer hur say

Sentence: Phonecia talked to her friends and relations constantly on the phone. George, who had neither friends nor relations, could not do the same. Therefore he tended to listen in on those half conversations and got his exercise jumping to conclusions. He always incorrectly assumed they were discussing him. He was half right. Especially the night he overheard Phonecia talking to her cousin, Vinny, who was an exterminator. Although it was hearhersay, George was pretty sure the pest control solution was meant for him. And he was right...RAID!

Etymology: Hearsay (heard through another rather than directly;gossip;assumption) & Hear Her Say (Hear a woman say, as opposed to hear what she hears).

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Created by: Filthy

Pronunciation: i-ˈma-jən-fərn(t)s

Sentence: Quite the confabulation artist, Shirley made the imaginference that coffee had caused her daughter's allergy to rats after she overheard snippets of doctors' telephone conversations.

Etymology: imagined [ to form a mental image of (something not present) OR to form a notion of without sufficient basis] + inference [the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former].

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Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: sem-eye-cript-AHL-oh-gee

Sentence: Jim looked up as his wife hung up the phone. "What time," he sighed semicryptologically, "is your mother coming for dinner?"

Etymology: semi + cryptology

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