Verboticisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ape/a/thy

Sentence: Jill's habit of greeting everyone who approached the desk with "what's up guys?" stereophonically in sync with her own sent her into state of apeathy

Etymology: ape (to mimic) + apathy (cool detachment

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Created by: josje

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: aN-oy-mirr-age

Sentence: As their habbits reflected each other, they got annoymirraged, and upped the anté by chewing even louder!

Etymology: to annoy + a mirrage

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: vex-sim-i-lee

Sentence: Jim and Dan were a vexsimile of each other. Even though the twins looked alike, they couldn't stand to be in the same room together because their habits rankled each other to the point of anger.

Etymology: vex: to annoy or irritate + simile:(latin) figure of speech meaning like or similar + facsimile: fax, a copy or reproduction

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Double trouble! - Nosila, 2009-10-22: 01:29:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: self-de-peek-shun

Sentence: Selfdepiquetion is the most confronting of all twinsanities. That realisation that one's sister is a spitting image of one's personality flaws usually outweighs the pleasures of completing each other's sentences and sharing a wardrobe.

Etymology: self + depict (show in a picture) + pique (noun and verb for anger)

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Created by: oswald

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: ha BITCH yu ate

Sentence: Kevin had to habitchuate himself to his girlfriend Mona*s frequent complaining. Usually he would respond in a high-pitched voice, "Would you pleeeeease stop whiiiiining? Pleeeeease? Jeeeeez, I can't even think straight! I'm so tiiiiired, and now this....It's giving me a heeeeeadache....It's sooooo annoyyyyying! Why does this always have to haaaaappen to meeeee?"

Etymology: Habit + bitch (v.) + habituate

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: mir-ri-tate

Sentence: Jill manages to mirritate david, using the same annoying snort, as she tries to clear her nasil passage.

Etymology: mirror, as in mimick/irritate

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: i right ation

Sentence: After irightating my way through the party i realized that i had no friends because i deserved no friends. Obsessive irightation may lead to the character of an irighctator.

Etymology: i am right irritation of self-reflection.

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: mar/sell/mar/sew/ism

Sentence: Who would have thought a co-worker would arrive dressed as a mime (my usual attire) and cause such marcelmarceauism.

Etymology: Marcel Marceau (famous mime) + ism

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