Verboticisms

Created by: loribethinbaltimore

Pronunciation: [ay-jur-eyez]

Sentence: JOB APPLICATION: Have you ever been found guilty of any criminal activity? "Yes. One count of agerism."

Etymology: Age + Plagerism = Agerism (noun) Verb = Agerize

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Fab-ri-cage-shun

Sentence: How my 4 year old brother got away with the fabricagetion and obtained beer at the gas station is beyond me.

Etymology: Fabrication (a false story) + age (length of time someone has lived)

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Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: hə-lū'sə-nā'ging

Sentence: Edith was obviously hallucinaging when she thought that by putting blonde hilights in her blue hair she would look 35.

Etymology: Blend of Hallucinate + Age

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COMMENTS:

love the way you think - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-23: 12:10:00

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: youff-um-izum

Sentence: If only someone had told Geoffrey that the term "spring chickenhawk" wasn't a terribly convincing youthemism...

Etymology: youth (the state of being young) + euphemism (a non-literal way to say something)

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! Gets my vote. - Rhyme79, 2012-09-26: 10:48:00

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: high + purr + ball + AGE

Sentence: Oh my, the hyperbolage! I would not have thought that the police officer would believe Grandma Edna's hyperbolaged ID. He was probably stoned.

Etymology: hyperbole [exaggerations] + age

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: PREE-VARI-CRONE-OH- SPIN

Sentence: When dreary old rat faced Pat was pulled over by the Paramus police, she fumbled for her poorly-doctored driver's license and tried to turn on her nonexistant charm. Although she was older than hair, losing her eyesight and driving at the speed of a glacier, she tried to use PREVARICHRONOSPIN to convince the officer that she was NOT enfeebled by her many bitter years of ineffectual lies, duplicity and hands-on cellphone driving...................... "Lady, don't try to PREVARICHRONOSPIN your way out of this !" said the irate trafficop............... "You're a disgrace as a forger, and a pain to meet on the streets of this basically clean town."

Etymology: PREVARicate: to lie+................... CHRONOs: the personification of time+.. SPIN: to create an illusion for the porpoises of image enhancement.(whew)

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COMMENTS:

http://www.alltooflat.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-07-23: 00:36:00

It's taught me to RESPECT the Romans! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-23: 00:37:00

great paragraph - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-23: 12:10:00

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Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: lie-span

Sentence: I've got a feeling that 21 is your liespan, because you look about 8.

Etymology: Lifespan minus the 'f' = liespan

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Created by: andyhudson12

Pronunciation: Fab-ric-ayj

Sentence: "Yeah that's right, I managed to fabricage my way in here with my fake ID!"

Etymology: Fabricate and Age - FABRICAGE!

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: fib/aj

Sentence: Bea and her friends got together once a week to play fibbage. The local bars caught on easily but played along as they always left by suppertime

Etymology: fib + age + cribbage

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: old - bagg

Sentence: Beatrice oldbagged her way through life until her friend Kay told her that she wasn't fooling anybody.

Etymology: old (advanced in years) bag (reference to the inevitable saggy bagginess of the loss of youth)

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