Verboticisms

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: 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: Mustang

Pronunciation: suh-VIVE-uhr

Sentence: After being tossed out by her two-timing husband Megan 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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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: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: pair-re-GRETTER

Sentence: Mad Shirley just seemed to suck at life. Talked into refinancing her adobe abode by a mortgage huckster, she became an involuntary terrestrial- an itinerant grinch dwelling in her wagonocturne and taking rapid sponge baths in fast-food joints. A 21st century PEREGRETTER, Shirley and her loyal feline sidekick knew every bleak parking lot and all-nite diner where a rolling stone might catch a few furtive winks before being hustled on by the local brain police. Still, life was good and she was thankful for the warm rising of the sun and the maintenance of the public parks. Mad Shirley was grateful when Mister America walked on by...without tapping on her windshield. A home on four rubber donuts was still a home. As the last snowflakes of winter fluttered down, she stroked her cat and vowed to make life better...

Etymology: PEREgrine+reGRETTER=PEREGRETTER........PEREGRINE:having a tendency to wander;Middle French peregrin, from Medieval Latin peregrinus, from Latin, foreign .....REGRET:to mourn the loss or death of,to miss very much,to be very sorry for;Middle English regretten, from Anglo-French regreter, from re- + -greter (perhaps of Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse grāta to weep)

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Terrestrial-of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants ;Middle English, from Latin terrestris, from terra earth.....Itinerant-traveling from place to place;Late Latin itinerant-, itinerans, present participle of itinerari to journey.....Wagon-a usually four-wheeled vehicle for transporting bulky commodities or people and drawn originally by animals;Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch.....Nocturne-a work of art dealing with evening or night;French, adjective, nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 18:55:00

Yeah....We're back. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:06:00

The mighty Susquehanna was frightening-a mighty river, not an insipid stream, manageable and tame. The multitudes had followed it's course...to freedom and adventure. And now it carried it's burden of ice and sorrow down to the Chesapeake Bay- unstoppable and unknowable forever. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:33:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ford abel how zing

Sentence: After losing his job and home, Randy moved the family into his Focus, so that they would have fordablehousing.

Etymology: Affordable housing (low cost dwelling) & Ford(automobile brand)

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: strēt'nĭk

Sentence: At first I was offended. I'd lost my job, gotten kicked out of school, and told my folks I was "going on the road for a while". "You're nothing but a crazy streetnik!", they replied with disdain. I didn't understand at the time, and I was angry; offended. But now, looking out the window of my filthy Volkswagen bus, exchanging knowing smiles amongst the armada of dirty, jobless, hippies across the lanes of traffic; I realized that it was my parents who did not understand. Out the windows of my car I saw the best minds of my generation, united in our adventure on the open road; living in campgrounds, rest-stop parking-lots, trees, parks, city benches. Our cars were our only private refuge, and we loved them, cared for them like companions. We were fordniks, hondaniks, volksniks, chevyniks – all streetniks, all starving, hysterical, naked angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry starry dynamo in the machinery of our cars.

Etymology: street + beatnik

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COMMENTS:

Wow! Good word. Your story captures the "beatnik" attitude. - splendiction, 2009-02-18: 12:42:00

Super creations! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 00:52:00

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Created by: simoneshin

Pronunciation: wreck homer

Sentence: when she found out he brought this homewrecker in to their home she through him out and he became a wreckhomer

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

nice! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-17: 06:53:00

Clever switcheroo! Super Duper word, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:34:00

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Created by: TheFourth

Pronunciation: ah-toe-mo-ho-bo

Sentence: When their record player caught on fire, they lost their house and became a automohobos. They're so underground.

Etymology: Automobile - a self-propelled passenger vehicle that usually has four wheels and an internal-combustion engine, used for land transport Hobo - a tramp, vagrant

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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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