Verboticisms

Created by: Sketchy

Pronunciation: twin-CH

Sentence: Today I saw Earl drink milk from the carton and I started to twinch. I thought I was the only one in the house who did that???

Etymology: twin, twitch

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Created by: kaiservunderbar

Pronunciation: mal-face -ous

Sentence: A malfaceous odour rose from his decaying body

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: mi-ri-tay-shun

Sentence: It wound Zach up no end when antisocial eejts in the quiet carriage shouted their stupid lives into their stupid mobiles. It was interfering with the sound of his chirruping Angry Birds app.

Etymology: mirror (to reflect or depict faithfully) + irritation (to excite to impatience or anger)

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Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: hi-paw-cri-cheesed

Sentence: Anna was well and truly hypocricheesed when her roommate's constant need to talk on the phone interfered with her highly important phone calls to people she'd met once on a bus.

Etymology: hypocrisy + cheesed off (meaning annoyed).

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COMMENTS:

Mmm...cheese. Makes the bad habits sound hygiene-related. And the "hypocrisy" notion works better than the overkilled "doppelgaenger" for which many have plumped. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-04: 14:41:00

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Created by: simoneshin

Pronunciation: hahr-suh-siz-uhm

Sentence: with his finger almost touching his brain, mel ventured his disapproval of brad picking his nose. realising that was a moment of pure harsissism.

Etymology: harsh; ungentle, unpleasant narcissism; excessive self-love

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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: jaberdadi

Pronunciation: snackle(verb); eating a snack meal

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Created by: astraea22

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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: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌɹifləˈstɹeɪʃən/

Sentence: The annoyance caused by the cohabitation of a neat freak and a slob is nothing compared to the reflustration that ensues when two slobs move in together.

Etymology: From reflect + frustration

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COMMENTS:

I'm voting for you! Delusions make me believe that both of those co-habituations would make good scenarios for a sit-com. Bet someone's already done it... Wayne and Waynetta Slob (by Harry Enfield) comes to mind. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-04: 14:38:00

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