Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: uh-pahrt-moh-beel

Sentence: The sales rep spends so much time in her car that she has decked it out as an apartmobile. The bins of snacks and stack of extra cloths are bad enough but recently she has been nagging her husband to figure out how to adapt a mini-fridge and microwave to install in the back seat.

Etymology: apartment (set of rooms for rent ) + mobile(movable, traveling)

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Created by: Gadgetmo

Pronunciation: car - liver

Sentence: We have to live in our car because we've got no home.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: vin hab it

Sentence: Since the downturn in the economy, the Cameron Family has lived in their mini-van. In fact they vinhabit it. At first it was a shock, but after they stored all their stuff, but the TV, at a friend's, they have come to love their mobile existance. No house to clean, no lawn to mow, no worry about bill collectors and taxmen finding you and if you don't like your neighbors, you just move during the night and go somewhere else. Everyday is an adventure!

Etymology: VIN (Vehicle Identification Number...a unique serial number (17 characters) used by the automotive industry to identify individual motor vehicles) & Inhabit (to live in; makes one's home in)

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Created by: DnBrown

Pronunciation: vag-a-benz

Sentence: Kathy lost her home when her bakery went under, due to the terrible economy. Now jobless, homeless, with no opportunities, she is forced to live in her car and become a Vagabenz.

Etymology: Vagabenz is a mixture of Vagabond (an idle wanderer without a permanent home or visible means of support) and Benz (from Mercedes Benz, the car manufacture)

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COMMENTS:

Her bakery went under? No wonder she has no dough! Great word... - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 01:24:00

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Created by: feltcap

Pronunciation: ɪntərˈsteɪtlɛs

Sentence: After his father walked in on a rather intimate moment he was sharing with his mother they had been interstateless.

Etymology: interstate - a highway serving two or more states, stateless - lacking nationality or without nationality or citizenship

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: domi/sigh/clist

Sentence: The Turtle family became domicyclists when it became necessary to take up residence in their car.

Etymology: domicile + cyclist

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COMMENTS:

what a mind tripper! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:36:00

brilliant, and rolls off the tongue too... - Ismelstar, 2009-02-18: 19:53:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: aff ohr dab il how zing

Sentence: He found the afordablehousing very spacious after living for years in his folkswagon

Etymology: aFORDable

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COMMENTS:

Watch my lips. This craic'ed me up. - scrabbelicious, 2012-01-27: 14:56:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: mow hab it ayt

Sentence: they mohabitated for weeks at a time surviving on love, motown hits and sun baked cheese

Etymology: mo as in motown, habititate as in live

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Created by: sam145

Pronunciation: VEE-boh

Sentence: I spent a few years as a veebo after my parents kicked me out of the house.

Etymology: A combination of vehicle and hobo

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: suv-IVE-uhr

Sentence: After being tossed out by her two-timing husband Muriel grabbed her two kids and their puppy and she became a suvivor, happy that she at least had the SUV as it provided a bit more in the way of creature comforts than a smaller vehicle may have done

Etymology: Use of SUV (acronym for Sports Utility Vehicle) and is a play on the word survivor.

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COMMENTS:

best one yet! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-17: 06:52:00

terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-17: 09:35:00

This is the word! Great story! - splendiction, 2009-02-18: 12:40:00

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