Verboticisms

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: pashun - akt

Sentence: Elvira was passionact about the Christmas grab bag this year. Everyone else thought she was really excited about it but, in truth, she was pretending to be excited because she thought that everyone else was.

Etymology: passion, act

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: bo-GUS-toe

Sentence: Opening her wedding gifts, Alice wondered if she could muster any more bogusto as she unwrapped her third Salad Shooter.

Etymology: bogus, gusto

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COMMENTS:

rolls off the tongue! also great for archaic etymology! - jadenguy, 2007-05-25: 10:06:00

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Created by: thephil

Pronunciation: fr:etend

Sentence: Acctualy, I fretended, when I stated that I love my new job.

Etymology: Fake pRETEND

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: whee + jack + you + late

Sentence: Everybody at the party thought that ear candling was the best thing they'd ever heard of and I didn't want to be rude, so I wheejaculated about it too even though I thought it was pretty stupid.

Etymology: It is spoken in the Bible of those who would shout when coming upon those things which made them happy or which they would wish others to think made them happy: Those people would say Whee, and then ejaculate.

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Created by: chlorinejenny

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: normal

Sentence: human

Etymology: behaviour

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: v.intr. /PEH-pit-ayz/; pepity n. /PEH-pi-ti/

Sentence: Oprah seemed really enthusiastic in the most boring thing ever invented on this planet. My choices were to pepitize or to tell it frankly to her face that she would look like a migratory Teletubby with that nose bidet in her nostrils. I had to pepitize or else, I would hurt her feelings. Soon, everyone watching Oprah joined the pepity.

Etymology: PEPITIZE- pep [enthusiasm; as in pep rally] + pity [to have compassion and join the fake enthusiasm] + sympathize; PEPITY - pep + pity

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: per-FAD-ee-uhs-nis

Sentence: Richard's needy perfadiousness was most evident whenever foreign films were discussed. He kept referring to Kurosawa as "the caterer's crowning achievement."

Etymology: perfidiousness (intentional deceit) + fad (well, we all know what a fad is)

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Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: ANG-ush

Sentence: In order to keep my job, I must angush about the product when I meet with my manager every week.

Etymology: Anguish - extreme pain + Gush - to make an effusive display of enthusiasm

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: vim-BOO-zuhl

Sentence: "Yeah. It is a very big job, isn't it," Kenny said. "But we can do it, don't' anyone forget. We can do it if we just remember that we can't do it without one another's help." Bob nodded agreement, paused for a moment as if to ponder the truth in what Kenny had just said, and then spoke: "I have some ideas, Kenny," he said, enthusiastically taking a small notebook from his brief case. " I'd like to get your thoughts on them." Some of the things that Kenny and the others liked most about Bob was the way he listened to them; saw that they had the major role in decision making, and insisted they take all the credit for successful outcomes. Nevertheless, in time, it seemed strange, as Kenny thought more deeply about it, that Bob, despite all his enthusiastic utterances, never aspired, or sought to play any real role in the running of the Club. Already growing quickly in Kenny's mind was the picture of Bob as a pallid pretender, whose words were simply spoken to vimboozle them.

Etymology: VIM: lively or energetic spirit; enthusiasm; vitality & BOOZLE (of bamboozle):to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink, gyp.

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COMMENTS:

This calls for revolution! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-28: 15:15:00

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