Verboticisms

Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: imm - it - hate

Sentence: he broke his pen imithating my constant pen clicking. it made me smile unti ;i realised that it was my pen.

Etymology: im - to copy hate - to despise

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ərkō

Sentence: Mike doesn’t care for his new intern. Instead of learning and adopting Mike’s best talents and habits he irchos the worse. All the bad habits and traits he tries to hide behind his cubicle walls come back to smack him in the face.

Etymology: irk (irritate; annoy) + echo (a person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another)

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Created by: urbanwookie

Pronunciation: mim-eo-pathy

Sentence: Justin was such a profound mimeopath it was surprising he could bear people breathing in the same room...

Etymology: mimeo (duplicate, copy) + pathy (Feeling, suffering, perception)

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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: 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: 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: Jaxies

Pronunciation: /mirra-irra-tay-shun-a-lism/

Sentence: "Doug had developed an acute case of mirrirritationalism as his roommate's snoring increased every night. It did nothing to appease his mind that every other night his roommate thought the same thing about him."

Etymology: Mirror + irration + -alism

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: slop-el-gang-er-eye-tis

Sentence: Slopelgangeritus took over as Bill's irritation at his roommate burst forth even though Bill knew that he did the same things and shouldn't be mad at his friend.

Etymology: slop + doppelganger + itis

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COMMENTS:

Has there been an outbreak of itisitis in the verbotomy circle? - petaj, 2007-04-04: 05:51:00

Slopelgangrene sounds really nasty - petaj, 2007-04-04: 05:55:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: mirərtāshən

Sentence: Like father, like son, they say... Whenever Jack and Jack Jr. spend more than 5 minutes together you can be assured that sparks will fly. They are so much alike that the mirrortation is inevitable. Friends and family always hope that the phrase **You can cut the tension with a knife**, is virtual and not literal.

Etymology: mirror (a reflective surface, now typically of glass coated with a metal amalgam, that reflects a clear image) + irritation (the state of feeling annoyed, impatient, or angry)

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COMMENTS:

Reflective word... - Nosila, 2009-10-22: 01:33:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ol/sen/ation

Sentence: Donald went into a state of olsenation because of his brother's nasty habits, mimiced from years of living in the same house as Donald.

Etymology: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen totally annoying identical twins - What could be more irritating than these twins as they mimic each other's annoying, irritating habits?

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COMMENTS:

*mimicked And is "annoying" a new euphemism for "hot"? - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-04: 14:33:00

Yikes!! Bulletchewer has a crush on the Olsens - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-05: 08:57:00

I must be twinsane eh? Now THIS is me ranting: Reckoning Freud (you know, that MAJOR contributor to psychology, like Goethe and his mate Kant ^^) would concur, while putting irritations about the Olsens down to sexual frustration/jealousy. Pity my attention seeking! - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-09: 05:39:00

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