Verboticisms

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: press-dulge

Sentence: Jim's pressdulgence appeared harmless enough but in reality it was a symptom of his control freak behaviour.

Etymology: press + indulge

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Created by: Angie

Pronunciation: re-presh-un

Sentence: Though the "up" button glowed with a faint light indicating that someone had already summoned the elevator, Clara felt compelled to press it again--just in case.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: eləvātərgazəm

Sentence: It all started when, as a young girl, her father would allow her to push the button on the elevator at his office. She still gets a charge, an elevatorgasm, when she is able to push her own button.

Etymology: elevator (a platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different floors or levels) + orgasm (a climax of sexual excitement)

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COMMENTS:

lolol cracked me up!! - libertybelle, 2011-03-16: 08:47:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: presäkyəpīd

Sentence: Ever since she was little Tracy has been pressoccupied. Whenever she was in an elevator she wanted to be the one to press the button. Crossing a downtown street? **ME PUSH, ME PUSH!** It was so bad that she was banned from participating in the Take Your Child to Work program at the missle silo where her father works.

Etymology: press (move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force) + preoccupation (a subject or matter that engrosses someone)

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Created by: Niktionary

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Created by: hobodad

Pronunciation: pushosis

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Etymology: push + psychosis

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: re/dun/dant

Sentence: I know it was redonedant to press the button again but you never know, perhaps he didn't press it hard enough!

Etymology: redundant + done

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Created by: Crabtime

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Sentence: Staring obsessively at the nuclear control panel, she couldn't help but compresilicate every last button that her instructor showed her.

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: chim-press-AIR-ee-oh

Sentence: I hate being next to Dawkins at the elevator. He is such a chimpressario! Monkey see, monkey do.

Etymology: chimp, impressario

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Created by: baicec

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