Verboticisms

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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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: Erikv

Pronunciation: Mim ick ee

Sentence: He knew he never wanted to be cloned because of the intense mimicky he felt every time Ted aped him.

Etymology: Mimic plus icky

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: sĭm'ə-prŏks-ĭm'ĭ-rāt

Sentence: When you get mad about me not doing the dishes its clear that you're simply getting simiproximirated, because we all know full well that you are not the cleanliest pig in the sty.

Etymology: Simi (from Latin similis, like) + proximity (The state, quality, sense, or fact of being near or next; closeness. from latin proximus, nearest) + irate (Extremely angry; enraged. Latin iratus, from īra, anger)

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COMMENTS:

also, one would exemplify, or suffer from "simiproximiration". - zrotv, 2007-05-14: 03:44:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: mir err tay shun

Sentence: his sense of mirrortation multiplied with each swallowed bogey he witnessed.

Etymology: mirror irritation

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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