Verboticisms

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: gee216

Pronunciation: cur-es-i-dent

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Weclome. You can get more points by entering a sentence and etymology, see scoring under News/Help. Good first effort. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-18: 01:27:00

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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: petaj

Pronunciation: doj-loj

Sentence: Well children, the GFC has ruined us. The bank has foreclosed and next week the repo men will no doubt arrive to take away the furniture and the next we'll be dodgelodging.

Etymology: Dodge (motor vehicle manufacturer) + lodge (n. cabin or v. reside)

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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: Gadgetmo

Pronunciation: car - liver

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

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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: Nosila

Pronunciation: vee la hik el

Sentence: Summers down by the lake, winters in trailer parks...waking up miles away from where you went to bed, that's the life. Our villahicle is the true meaning of detached housing. We are upwardly mobile...well, mobile, anyway!

Etymology: Villa (suburban detached domicile) & Vehicle (mode of transport)

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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: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: DWELL on WHEELS

Sentence: When I was younger, I was hellonwheels, riding around on my Harley. But now I've been reduced to dwellonwheels because I am living in my car.

Etymology: Play on HELL ON WHEELS and made up from DWELL and WHEELS

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Puntastic! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:32:00

This just make me giggle. Nice Job! - Ismelstar, 2009-02-18: 19:55:00

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