Verboticisms

Created by: hellohime

Pronunciation: Koo-Loo-Mi-Na-say

Sentence: After being kicked out on the street, with nothing but his car and bag of clothes, he found himself in a very kuruminase situation.

Etymology: Stemming from the japanese word for Car (kurumi), transliterated as "Car-Living-Person" meaning a person who uses their car as a place of residence.

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: van-eh-tee-pee

Sentence: Vanity, vanity...saith the Preacher...all is vanity. Shane, taking refuge from the city, didn't know if he was shivering with excitement or from the cold, but in this darkness before the dawn, he was sure he had come up with the perfect solution to the housing problem he faced. He had heard of the Tiny House Movement...now how about the Tiny Tee Pee Movement? He stared around the sides of his van. He could see his invention so vividly. He could help others. He would call them Vaniteepees. It would be Spring soon and the snow would be melting. Then he could open up the roof, even take off the sides. There were plenty of small trees to use. Once he got the trees down, he wondered where he would get the material to cover the sides...but, never mind, it was great to dream. It sure would be nice to be able to build a fire right in the middle of your own house. Those Indians had a good idea. He curled up tighter. He would start whittling tomorrow...

Etymology: From VAN, a boxed-shaped vehicle on 4 wheels + TEE PEE, from the Lakota language meaning "to dwell;" also playing on VANITY, the excessive belief in own's own abilities

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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: 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: 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: Nosila

Pronunciation: otto dwel ler

Sentence: Danny had become an autodweller when his stocks plummeted, the bank foreclosed and he lost his home. He moved his family to the country and parked their family sedan, which became their new home. He was not sure if he were a Dodgelodger, an Autonomad, a Vehiculardomicile, Hyundenizen, or a CarResident...the sedantics did not matter. There were a few advantages to living the gypsy life. They could tour the country, meet new people, try new schools every month and redecoration was an obsolete word to them...at least until the gas ran out!

Etymology: Auto (automobile;4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine) & Dweller (a person who inhabits a particular place)

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COMMENTS:

cracked up laughing over the many sedantics! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:40:00

Your mind is in overdrive! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:45:00

sedantics ftw. - zrotv, 2009-02-17: 22:30:00

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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: 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: 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: 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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