Verboticisms

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: 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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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: car-part-ment

Sentence: Sam Snickerly, would have gotten a larger automobile had he known it was going to be a carpartment for his entire family.

Etymology: Car- An automobile. Apartment-A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.

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COMMENTS:

:)Thanks you all! I need to show up more often with my right brain. - abrakadeborah, 2012-01-31: 00:46:00

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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: 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: mweinmann

Pronunciation: hum - mur - abod

Sentence: At the end of their long day, Jeffrey and Gloria walked back to their hummerabode. Their kids and dog were waiting for them in the backseat. It was a prestige vehicle and had all the comforts of home. It had been their one last luxury before they maxed out their credit cards and went bankrupt. It did not seem like a luxury any longer but they were glad it wasn't a VW Rabbit.

Etymology: Hummer + Abode + a play on the phrase "humble abode" >> Hummer (a brand of off-road vehicles sold by General Motors) Abode (the home or place where one lives)

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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: SamusMan

Pronunciation: Car + stead + er

Sentence: When a national act opened up parked cars in the west as free territory, carsteaders cycled in by the dozens to claim their new frontier homes.

Etymology: Derived from "homesteader."

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COMMENTS:

Very clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 00:51:00

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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: 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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