Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: procks-n-m-e

Sentence: My sister and I ceased to be proxenemies in our teens when we moved into a bigger house and got separate bedrooms.

Etymology: proximity (closeness) + enemy (opposite of friend)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ad-JAIS-en-tangl

Sentence: Ever the aggressive and obnoxious lout Chad would grab any and every opportunity to employ various adjacentangle efforts to antagonize his neighbors, even going so far as to call them graphic names and to throw refuse onto their property.

Etymology: Blend of 'adjacent' (lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring) and 'tangle' (Informal. a conflict; disagreement: He got into a tangle with the governor)

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COMMENTS:

Good blend - TJayzz, 2009-02-05: 08:56:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ad-JAIS-en-tangl

Sentence: Ever the aggressive and obnoxious lout Chester would grab any and every opportunity to employ various adjacentangle efforts to antagonize his neighbors, even going so far as to call them graphic names and to throw refuse onto their property.

Etymology: Blend of 'adjacent' (lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring) and 'tangle' (Informal. a conflict; disagreement)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: oh ver fen siv

Sentence: Their overfencive was the only woman made thing visible from space.

Etymology: offensive, over fence

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COMMENTS:

but could you hear it?? - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-05: 11:01:00

great! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-05: 13:05:00

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: e:mág:on:á:lie:n

Sentence: Relations between Manfred and Tobefrank got so bad, almost unimaginably bad, that the local neighbourhood watch insisted they increase the width of their imaginotline or move to another ghetto.

Etymology: A truce declared between 1-) Imagine: To conceive or form an image in one's own mind. 2-)Maginot line a line of defensive fortifications constructed by the French along their eastern border, extending from Switzerland to Luxembourg, between 1929 and 1936. • [as n. ] (also Maginot line) an impressive but often ineffectual means of protection or defense

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Created by: arrrteest

Pronunciation: dayr-mar-kay-shun-line

Sentence: Horace the cat always walked the daremarcationline to taunt Mr. Bojangles, the neighbor's dog, to crossing the invisible fence.

Etymology: dare-to show or prove courage + demarcation- to limit or mark + line- a mark to designat a boundary

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: jux/tag/o/nists

Sentence: Sitting next to anyone on a cramped and crowded airliner causes even the most friendly and gentile people to immediately become juxtagonists because of their close proximity to one another.

Etymology: JUXTAGONISTS - from - JUXTAPOSITION (close together, or side by side) + ANATGONISTS (opposes and contends against another; an adversary)

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COMMENTS:

Choice blending to fit the definition very well! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-05: 13:13:00

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Created by: satishkumar

Pronunciation: sa thi sh i sam

Sentence: many people follow satishisam

Etymology:

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: TER i WAR ee yul

Sentence: I can't stand my roommate. He is more than just territorial he is terriwarial. Every time I so much as even enter 'his side' of the living room, he's ready to battle.

Etymology: TERRITORIAL: guarding and defending an area deemed to be ones own WAR:

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: prox - lim - eter

Sentence: We dubbed the two families down the block the Spatfields and Annoys. They were friends for years until they moved next door to each other. Since then, all they do is fight and argue and have became a source of both amusement and annoyance to everyone around them. Last weekend, in an attempt to "get away from each other" they erected a proxlimiter between the houses. It is an eight foot concrete fence with no "see throughs" and no gates. It goes clear from the alley to the street.

Etymology: Proximity + Limiter >>> Proximity (closeness; the state of being near as in distance, time, or relationship) Limiter (that which limits or restricts access)

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COMMENTS:

super sentence and word - silveryaspen, 2009-02-05: 13:06:00

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