Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: klose ter fobi ya

Sentence: Christmas, Easter, Valentine's, St.Pat's, most National holidays (July 4, July 1, etc.)Halloween and Thanksgiving were occasions for competitive decorating and the resultant closetrophobia. Who was going to out-decorate each other this occasion in the Battle of the Best Decorated House on Elm Street? The Smiths' and the Jones' went through this rivalry constantly. The Smiths' were good, but it was hard to keep up with the Jones'!

Etymology: close (near) & claustrophobia ( unnatural fear of enclosed spaces, confined spaces)

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Good one - Mustang, 2009-02-06: 00:04:00

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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: 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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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: satishkumar

Pronunciation: sa thi sh i sam

Sentence: many people follow satishisam

Etymology:

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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: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: nay-bick-er-ly

Sentence: Even Mr. Rodgers would begin to feel neighbickerly if he lived next to the Johnsons. They have tacky lawn ornaments and loud parties. They have several cars that use all the parking spaces and let Fido run through the neighborhood to potty in everyone's pansies. But what really cheesed us off was when they yelled at the kids for going on their lawn to fetch their baseball.

Etymology: neighborly: acting as a friendly neighbor + bicker: petty squabble

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: chēkbigroul

Sentence: The Murphys bought a minivan. Now their 5 children would not have to be packed in cheekbygrowl when they all traveled together. That's not to say they couldn't find other reasons squabble.

Etymology: cheek by jowl (close together; side by side) + growl (a low guttural sound of hostility in the throat)

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COMMENTS:

those feckin' Murphy's at it again? - galwaywegian, 2009-02-05: 05:35:00

first-rate pun! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-05: 13:07:00

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

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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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