Verboticisms

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: wash - ing - gone

Sentence: When in Washington, it is often to your advantage to play Washingone when you are asked too many questions about which you are unsure of the "best" answers to; especially when you are asked by media representatives who will broadcast your responses to be seen by millions of viewers.

Etymology: Wash + Washing + Washington + Gone --- Wash(ing) (the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water;Taking a buffer and running it through a filter of some sort. The result will (more often than not) be cleaner and more pleasing than the original) - Washington (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia) - Gone (destroyed or killed)

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COMMENTS:

Sometimes those in DC also inspires Wishingone! Capital create! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:52:00

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: e LEKT am NEE zha

Sentence: The leader was told that if he was asked any questions that might embarrass him to just use his electamnesia strategy.

Etymology: SELECT: choose ELECT: choose or to select by vote AMNESIA: to forget

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COMMENTS:

Got my vote...but I can't remember. - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:20:00

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Created by: GlobalGallery

Pronunciation: Fayn-got-ten

Sentence: "Are you fit to hold a drivers licence? How many other accidents have you caused?", asked the curious reporter from the Channel 6 News Team. "None!" barked the heiress, wobbly on her feet. Clearly she'd feigngotten about the two other luxury sedans she had written off earlier that December.

Etymology: 1.Feign - to pretend. 2.Forgotten - unable to be recalled.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dub ba yewd

Sentence: When asked by Katie Couric, what was his most emBaracksing moments leading up to winning the election, Obama said it was admitting that he followed GWB into the White House. When asked why he would find that emBaracksing, Obama said he lacked the knack of making up his own words and their meanings and that he had virtually no experience invading foreign countries and making them hate his fellow Americans! He felt like a school janitor. That meant he dubbayude mopping up the verbal diarrhea and intellectual constipation he found himself surrounded by and cleaned up for the next time. You see, he was just Biden his time up until now!

Etymology: dubba (George W. Bush's nickname, one of the kinder ones; also means double) & You'd (you would, too!)

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COMMENTS:

luv the way you play with words and ideas! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 01:06:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fərgetwit

Sentence: As he took up the mantle of his new job, Barry took the high road and chose to ignore the blunders of his predecessor — to forgetwit. It was not an easy thing to do.

Etymology: forget (fail to remember) + twit (fool)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: rek oll ek tshump

Sentence: He went from election to recollectchump in mid oath.

Etymology: recollection, chump

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COMMENTS:

Well-said. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:54:00

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Created by: milorush

Pronunciation: (v.) dĭs-mĭs'rĭ-měm'bər

Sentence: Geoffrey's wife reveled in reminding him of of his drunken debauchery at her brother's wedding reception. It wasn't that he dismisremembered the event -- it was just that the entire night was a tequila-induced fog.

Etymology: mismis[s] + [mis]remember

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Created by: youngin105

Pronunciation:

Sentence: When someone has been caught pretending to have forgotten an embarrassing event: 'God, what a shiftyeyenesiac!'

Etymology: Shifty-eye: motion associated with guilt and/or embarrassment + nesia: the latter part of 'amnesia'.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: de/fak/choo/al/ize

Sentence: All politicans, from the lowliest elected, to the President of the United States, must be able to defactualize certain happenings in order to be diplomatic and appear inclusive, accepting and tolerant of all people and situations.

Etymology: DEFACTUALIZE - verb - from DE (added to form verbs applying removal, or reversal) + FACT (something that actually happened, or exists) + ACTUALIZE (actual; to realize in action)

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COMMENTS:

Superb sentence and word! Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was some way to deactivate those who defactualize? - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 11:01:00

Great word...like when we unhire someone at work, we decruit them! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:16:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: sham-NEEZ-ya

Sentence: Embarrassed at the prospect of actually revealing that he had been doing some personal 'research' on his predecessor, Barry instead created for himself, a state of shamnesia wherein he merely pretended that he knew nothing at all regarding the details of that 'research'.

Etymology: Blend of 'sham' (fake) and 'amnesia' (loss of a large block of interrelated memories)

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COMMENTS:

Can't understand why it isn't in common usage already! well done! - galwaywegian, 2009-01-22: 03:42:00

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