Verboticisms

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: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: trunk-date

Sentence: Her face looked like a thousand miles of bad road; why did she feel the need to truncdate and say she was 30?

Etymology: truncate, date

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COMMENTS:

oooh - maybe she was young and beautiful on the inside - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-29: 15:48:00

Maybe she'd travelled a thousand miles of bad road in the trunk! - petaj, 2007-05-30: 05:12:00

petaj - you have a very vivid imagination!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-30: 10:47:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: fake-her-age

Sentence: Ms. Edna Sky flew through TSA security with her fakeherage ID as the agents giggled...knowing she was not twenty-one.

Etymology: Fake- One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham. Her- Refers to a female person. Age- The length of time that one has existed; duration of life.

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Created by: allie123

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Created by: YourEnglishPal

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Etymology: PSEUD-False PAED-Child

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Created by: juliadeboard

Pronunciation: (null-eh-skate)

Sentence: After nulliskating her customers for so long, she forgot her real age.

Etymology: null-nothing skate-to get away with something

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: age-jest

Sentence: She was sure that confidence was the only important element when trying to agejest your way into a club. Too bad she looked nothing like her fake id photo.

Etymology: Age + Jest (to do something meant to be funny), also a pun on ageist - to discriminate based on chronological age

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COMMENTS:

nice - suzanne, 2007-05-29: 08:03:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-29: 12:21:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: uh-je-LAS-tik

Sentence: Although,for Bob, it was no laughing matter, Roxie was truly agelastic: a "1661" one week; a fibteen the next.

Etymology: blend of AGE & ELASTIC: Capable of adapting to change or a variety of circumstances; flexible, accomodating GELASTIC: SOED: laughable (rare); (agelastic: "unlaughable," not funny)sometimes found in books containing words the dictionary forgot.

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COMMENTS:

although I usually try to avoid words already found in various dictionaries, i decided,today,not to follow my usual practice. "Agelastic" 73% original according to google. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-23: 07:04:00

it is a good word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-23: 12:07:00

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Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: ma-nip-ul-age

Sentence: Ah, c'mon, let me in! A bit of manipulaging has never done anyone any harm.

Etymology: manipulate+age

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COMMENTS:

inspired! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-29: 04:27:00

vgood - suzanne, 2007-05-29: 08:03:00

excellent! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-31: 15:44:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌθɝdiˈnaɪn/

Sentence: My uncle thirtynined his way well into his 70's.

Etymology: From comedian Jack Benny, who always claimed to be thirty-nine years old, no matter how old he actually was.

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COMMENTS:

I predict that the number of votes my word gets today will be directly proportional to the average age of the players of this game. I also predict that because of this reference, everyone will mistake me for someone my father's age (wouldn't be the first time). - ErWenn, 2007-05-29: 13:44:00

I tried to stop my age from increasing when I turned 25, but I was only able to keep it up for a year. - ErWenn, 2007-05-29: 13:45:00

Well, the one difficulty is that this word only works one way (i.e. older pretending younger) whereas ostensibly the word ought to be able to apply both ways. That'll skew your prediction, since even those of us who get the reference might not vote for it because we're being sticklers... - Scattercat, 2007-05-29: 14:09:00

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