Verboticisms

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: pong ah noy aah

Sentence: The midnight garlic salami binge only increased her ponganoia

Etymology: paranoia pong

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Brilliant! I'm actually going to start using this word in everyday conversation. - jonzerofourteen, 2011-04-02: 00:08:00

With luck it will end up in the OED - piepowder, 2011-06-05: 13:36:00

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Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: smel-an-col-lee-a

Sentence: Michael suffered from severe smelancholia. And in an effort to mask his real or imagined malodours, he would always wear long sleeve shirts, two or three sweaters, and rubbers boots. While this did relieve the psychological symptoms, it had a rather unfortunate physical manifestation.

Etymology: smell + melancholia

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Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: reek-ah-pa-thee

Sentence: Bonny longed to take her coat off in the stifling room, but her reekopathy held her in check.

Etymology: Reek + opathy

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: FETT-id-RED

Sentence: Like aroma from cheese it’ll rise in your head- The terror of reeking called FETIDREAD!

Etymology: FETID+DREAD= FETIDREAD.....FETID: having a heavy offensive smell; Middle English, from Latin foetidus, from foetēre to stink.....DREAD: extreme uneasiness in the face of a disagreeable prospect, causing fear or awe, great fear especially in the face of impending evil or embarrasment; Middle English dreden from Old English drǣdan (“‘to fear, caution against’”), aphetic form of ādrǣdan, ondrǣdan (“‘to advise or counsel against’”) from and- "against" + rǣdan "to counsel, advise". Akin to Old High German intrātan "to fear".

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http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/36787804.html - metrohumanx, 2009-11-12: 06:28:00

November 17: The Leonids Typically the Leonid shower is a weak display, with fewer than a dozen meteors per hour radiating from Leo’s Sickle. But the parent comet, 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, tends to create narrow concentrated streams that can produce brief but prodigious displays. That was the case during the late 1990s, and we might be in for a reprise this year. A predicted pulse of activity on November 17th — with hundreds of meteors per hour — will involve contributions from the comet's spewings in 1102, 1466, and 1533. - metrohumanx, 2009-11-12: 06:31:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌstɪŋˈkzaɪədi/

Sentence: Commercials for the deoderant Sure make good use of people's tendency for stinxeity.

Etymology: From stink + anxiety

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Created by: MuskokaMuffin

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Created by: Rutilus

Pronunciation: ap-wiff-hen-siv

Sentence: Pat had always been prone to sweating. Nobody thought he was odourous, and in fact he was no more than any average guy. Still, this didn't help his mental state of mind. He had always been appwhiffhensive about taking his shoes off in other people's houses and he wasn't about to change any time soon.

Etymology: whiff - smell pong; apprehensive - anxious worried

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: sten-chen

Sentence: Mark was laying on the gurney in the emergency room after his injury and his stenchion level began to rise when he realized that he was still wearing his lucky underwear that he hadn't changed since the beginning of the season. Now his mother would find out about it. She had warned him. It didn't matter that he had two gold gloves and an MVP, what would the doctor think about him?

Etymology: stench: strong, foul odor + tension: mental, emotional or nervous strain -- baseball players are notorious for being highly superstitious and will regard certain articles of clothing as being "lucky." They have been known to go for weeks without taking off socks, charms, underwear, etc. as long as they're hitting well.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: rez iss tench

Sentence: her natural resistench was so powerful, she was the only person who used the spa's sunbed fully clothed.

Etymology: resistance, stench

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: halitōzēz

Sentence: The Scout group loved to go hiking. Days of trekking in heavy-duty boots left some of the troop with a bad case of foot stank. One member (name withheld to save embarrassment) was granted a special dispensation from the group leader to stick his un-booted feet out the car window because of his advanced halitosies.

Etymology: halitosis (technical term for bad breath) + toesies (any of the five digits at the end of the human foot)

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