Verboticisms

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: shaym-fajd

Sentence: Goldie wishfullied and prevaricaged she was in her 20's. She was outrajeoned and hoaryfied by those courageous enough to treat her like the forty-something she was. Their realizageshuns bombaged her and left her shamefaged.

Etymology: A play on being shamefaced when forced to admit one's real age ... shamefaged.

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COMMENTS:

so many good words - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-05: 09:42:00

Verbountiful! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:22:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌkutˈfɛs/

Sentence: Before my so-called friends could sell me over the hill, I decided to cut my losses and cootfess that this was actually the 10th anniversary of my 29th birthday and not my actual 29th birthday.

Etymology: cootfess - from "coot" + "(con)fess" sell over the hill - from "sell (down the river)" + "(gone) over the hill"

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COMMENTS:

Was it the hootfest over his real age that made him cootfess? Catchy word! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 18:29:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dee/moral/i/zayj/shun

Sentence: Sue suffered complete demoralizageshun when she and her girlfriends got carded after a Hannah Montana concert. She claimed she was dyslexic and thought 15 and 51 were the same.

Etymology: demoralization + age + shun

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COMMENTS:

Age dyslexia is as clever, fun and funny as demoralizageshun. (big grin). Greate creates! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 06:10:00

Clever blend & funny sentence. "1551" - reminds me of the "1661 Syndrome", where one looks attractive from the back (16), but not so attractive from the face (61)! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 15:44:00

to hard to pornonuce - purpleman, 2008-02-05: 19:11:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: age/jur/ee

Sentence: She committed agejury several times during her birthday party subtracting ten years from her real age.

Etymology: AGEJURY - noun - from AGE + PERJURY (The practice of lying; falsehood, untruthfulness)

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COMMENTS:

Guilty as charged! - Nosila, 2008-11-28: 21:47:00

I want to see my plastic surgeon! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-29: 14:42:00

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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: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Tem-pust-a-fook-e-tum

Sentence: Annie had a total tempestafucitum over finding out that her true age had been found out and that her attempts to diguise the effects of time had failed.

Etymology: Tempest :(orig Latin. Tempus) - a storm related to time. A : (French. ) to. Fucitum : (Latin.) - to be caught or ensnared. See Also: Chronolonakitum (Orig. Greek)

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COMMENTS:

I like this one. Reminds me of "tempus fugit" - ErWenn, 2008-02-05: 10:11:00

Far out! Kudos for originality! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 18:21:00

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Created by: sean30

Pronunciation: Morti-fe-ons-cious

Sentence: Ive never felt so Mortifeonscious recently, after i was caught out over my age while taking my junior cert exam. I think growing a beard might have contributed to unmasking my true age!

Etymology: Mortify - Self-conscious

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COMMENTS:

Liked the 'eon' in there, too! When his fiancée found out his true age he was even more mortfeonscious! Neat creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:02:00

to hard to pronounce - purpleman, 2008-02-05: 16:51:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dee/moral/i/zayj/shun

Sentence: Sue suffered complete demoralizageshun when she and her girlfriends got carded after a Hannah Montana concert. She claimed she was dyslexic and thought 15 and 51 were the same.

Etymology: demoralization + age + shun

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Created by: emdeejay

Pronunciation: cron spiracy

Sentence: Wendy was aghast when she realised her friends had uncovered her chronspiracy. However would she live down not admitting she was really 31 !

Etymology: From the ancient Greek Chronos (The personification of time) and conspiracy

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Created by: ElCappa

Pronunciation: Moron-O-logic-Alice-ment

Sentence: I felt moronologicallessment after being turned away from the Liquor store. Turns out my fake ID wouldn't cut it.

Etymology: Moron - A Fool (Ch)ronological - Time related (Embar)assment - Shame

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