Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: oint/mith

Sentence: At $139.00 an ounce the latest facial cream is another ointmyth to make your skin "look ten years younger in just days".

Etymology: OINTMYTH - noun - from OINTMENT (soft, unctuous preparation for application to the skin) + MYTH (any invented story, idea, or concept)

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Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: X-pen-lye-s

Sentence: Look at those old ladies buying expendlies

Etymology: expensive- lies

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COMMENTS:

sticky wicked great - silveryaspen, 2009-02-16: 10:52:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: rez-uhr-EX-shun

Sentence: Either in complete denial or actually failing to notice that the expensive and exclusive cosmetics she was using merely filled in the cracks and crevices Velma truly believed her efforts at resurrexion were thoroughly successful.

Etymology: Blend of 'resurrect' ( To bring back to life; raise from the dead) and 'complexion' (the natural color, texture, and appearance of the skin, esp. of the face)

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: trŏsh

Sentence: She slathered it on with dreams of beauty. But nothing had changed when she dried it off. The vendor she'd met must've been wrought with cruelty! To sell the poor dame a bottle of Traush.

Etymology: Trash (a worthless object) + Wash (a cosmetic liquid)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: djoo ven churz

Sentence: Edna went on one of her juventures every evening before bed. She applied the ridicuously expensive beauty cream purported to take years off her face, in en ffort to look young again. Some mornings she thought she had really poncedeleoned herself, but once she put her glasses on, the lines in her face reappeared. The only part of youth she seemed to rediscover was the fact that her face also broke out. This is what middle age is really about she thought...when you have to use Oil of Olay and Clearasil at the same time!

Etymology: Juvenile (a youthful person) & Adventures (take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome)

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Created by: saqibzamir

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COMMENTS:

Yunctionate yourself a little....your horrible wrinkles are not easy on the eyes. - saqibzamir, 2016-08-31: 12:51:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: punked/duh/lee/on

Sentence: Sally should have been suspicious when the anti-aging cream came with its own mirror but the results were so staggering that she didn't mind being punkeddeleon.

Etymology: punked (tricked by means of a practical joke) + Ponce de Leon (explorer who searched for the fountain of youth)

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COMMENTS:

we need more of those magic mirrors! luv the modern twist to the man of yore! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-16: 10:36:00

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: re joo ven no shuns

Sentence: Despite, faithfully using the dreamcreams and miracalotions, after age sixty, seeing my aging face in a mirror, causes me to wrinkcoil away from the image. They do not work. But hope springs eternal, so we women never give up on our silly rejuvenotions!

Etymology: REJUVENATIONS by POTIONS and LOTIONS are unrealistic NOTIONS = REJUVENOTIONS. The last two syllables in the pronunciation could be part of the etymology as well ... for we do it in hopes of 'NO SHUNS'.

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COMMENTS:

Mirror, mirror on the wall .... lie to me! Please! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-16: 01:55:00

here, hear....hard to resist the promise!! - mweinmann, 2009-02-16: 08:00:00

hope they led to rejuvemotions! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-16: 09:44:00

clever blend - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-16: 10:57:00

Clever! I enjoyed your sentence with all its great verbot's! - splendiction, 2009-02-16: 18:01:00

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Created by: feltcap

Pronunciation: ˈjʊŋ-krm

Sentence: The jungcream helped in her quest to find individuation by immersing her in analysis of her psyche.

Etymology: jung - a reference to Carl Jung, a Swiss psychologist who founded analytical psychology, cream - a cosmetic agent used to soften or smooth the skin

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: yuth an eyze

Sentence: Marjorie tried every product on the market in an effort to youthanize the wrinkles on her face. She realized that middle age was really the fact that you were caught having to use Clearasil and Oil of Olay at the same time.

Etymology: Youth (young person) & Euthanize (the act of killing someone painlessly)

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