Verboticisms

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: Nosila

Pronunciation: fen sen em ees

Sentence: The neighbours often saw the Browns & The Smiths next door to them fighting over petty things, like in whose yard whose cat toiletted and whose tree was overhanging whose yard. The walkway between their yards was like the Demilitarized Zone...neutral but dangerous with the possibility of being caught in the crossfire. Their parents always said they fought tooth and nail growing up and now they were fencenemies. Just what possessed this brother and sister to buy homes next door to each other is still a mystery.

Etymology: Fence (a boundary line created by a fence) & Enemies (not friends;any group of hostile people)

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Created by: jmunoz98

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: nay-gresh-un

Sentence: Nancy was so full of neighgression with her neighbor, Ned. For some strange reason...all she ever wanted to do was to ring his neck!

Etymology: Neigh - Part of "Neighbor" - One who lives near or next to another. Gression- Part of "Aggression" - The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: proksenuhmeez

Sentence: A deep snow, hours of shoveling and a limited number of parking spaces can make proxenemies out of previously-friendly neighbors.

Etymology: proximity (nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation) + enemies (an adversary or opponent)

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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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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Vex-dor-nay-bers

Sentence: Whenever Sally and Jim were in close proximity of each other they became vexdoorneigbours. They had to be separated at all times. Their mother put it down to a touch of sibling rivalry but the plain truth was they actually couldn't stand the sight of each other.

Etymology: Vex(annoy,make angry) + Neighbours (persons or place in relation to others next to it) See Next door neighbours

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COMMENTS:

terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-05: 11:00:00

I think those two used to be my vexdoor neighbors. - Mustang, 2009-02-06: 00:03:00

Really good! - kateinkorea, 2009-02-06: 02:18:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: proks en mitee

Sentence: Grace and Bill lived next door to each other and as a result lived in a perpetual state of proxenmity.

Etymology: Proximity (nearness;being close to) & Enmity (a state of deep-seated ill-will)

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Created by: starwarsgeek8

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Etymology: vice+vicinity

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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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