Verboticisms

Created by: Nuwanda

Pronunciation: o-lib-er-ate

Sentence: Rather than obliterating his vanquished foe, the commander-in-chief demonstrated his ultimate coolness by oliberating him instead. With the whole world watching, he took the high road, though he had to clear a lot of brush off it because it had been untraveled for so long. If only he knew someone who was good at clearing brush. Oh yeah, not going to go there.

Etymology: A twist on the word obliterate, to incorporate liberate and to pay tribute to the O of the mOment.

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COMMENTS:

Well-crafted endings ... of both sentence and etymology! Oliberate is such a highly hopeful word. Obama has inferred comparisons to Lincoln, MLK, Kenedy and so many others, so I also thought it very clever that this brings to mind The Great Liberator, Simon Bolivar. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 01:36:00

Good word and interesting sentence, good wordplay! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:14:00

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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: jajsr

Pronunciation: Sha-gr-ette

Sentence: When asked about the former President's news conference, President Obama conveniently chagretted the incident.

Etymology: Mixture of "chagrin" - disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment or failure; and "forget" - to lose the remembrance of.

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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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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: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: mag-nuh-bun-CO-gentle-APSE-ih-muss (magnabuncogentleapsimist)

Sentence: Everyone thought the churlish knave deserved the attentions of the Spanish Inquisition, but the guy in charge was far too MAGNABUNCOGENTLEAPSIMOUS to agree. Better to let history decide when all the VOTES ARE IN. After all, it's not like he MADOFF with everyone's money and lounges around chuckling in a COMFY CHAIR whilst gazing down from his multi-million dollar aerie.

Etymology: MAGNAnimous+ BUNco +COGEnt +geNTLE +lAPSE +magnamIMOUS= MAGNABUNCOGENTLEAPSIMOUS MAGNANIMOUS:showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind;Latin magnanimus, from magnus great + animus spirit.....BUNCO:a swindling game or scheme,anything patently false;perhaps alteration of Spanish banca bench, banking, bank in gambling, from Italian.....COGENT:appealing forcibly to the mind or reason,having power to compel or constrain;Latin cogent-, cogens, present participle of cogere to drive together, collect, from co- + agere to drive.....GENTLE:tractable , docile,free from harshness, sternness, or violence,chivalrous,honorable, distinguished,suited to a person of high social station;Middle English gentil, from Anglo-French, from Latin gentilis of a gens, of one's family, from gent-gens, nation; akin to Latin gignere to beget,..... LAPSE:a slight error typically due to forgetfulness or inattention,a temporary deviation or fall especially from a higher to a lower state;Latin lapsus, from labi to slip.....IMOUS: a little-known peripheral device developed by Apple whose production was suddenly termina... strike that last one from the record.

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COMMENTS:

Sorry- no "leap" involved...unless it's voluntarily onto the pavement below. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-22: 06:04:00

Interesting word, m, although way too short! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:11:00

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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: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: pree/tend/sh/huh/sh

Sentence: Sally was so pretendshuhsh that she would never acknowledge recognizing the employee at the liquor store who routinely pushed her heavily laden cart around the store.

Etymology: pretend + huh? + shush + hush + pretentious

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COMMENTS:

Great combo. Great word. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:55:00

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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: 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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