Verboticisms

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: eh-co-reh-TAY-shun

Sentence: Seeing or hearing some of his own peccadilloes and bad habits from his friends and acquaintenances always causes Wilmer to experience severe bouts of echorritation wherein he shouts the same epithets and insults that they toss his way when HE does or says those things.

Etymology: Blend of 'echo' and 'irritation'

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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: ziggy41

Pronunciation: (im-uh-TAG-un-ize)

Sentence: She imitagonized him until he almost went nuts.

Etymology: Imitate+Antagonize

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: hippo-snit-ick-al

Sentence: Darren argued with his wife about how he hates when she eats cookies in bed and leaves crumbs on the sheets. He doesn't realize he is hyposnitical, as he does the same thing by leaving Dorito crumbs in his side of the bed.

Etymology: hypocritical + snit

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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: 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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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: car-bon-cop-eevd

Sentence: he became so carboncopeeved that that he had no choice but to find somewhere else to live

Etymology: carbon copy, peeved

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COMMENTS:

missed this the first time round - good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-05: 14:50:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: my ag gra

Sentence: Bernie was coming down with a bad case of myaggra because his "friends" were doing what he always did, hitting on chicks, but this time with his own girlfriend, Wanda. They wanted to show off their virility, the way male animals always did. Think deer, elk, moose, the rutting season. Only trouble was that Bernie thought that Wanda would never wander. Too late he realized she would do anything for a buck!

Etymology: My (mine, first person singular possessive) & Aggra (British slang for Aggravation/Aggression) and rhymes with Viagra (little blue pills to treat erectile dysfunction)

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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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