Verboticisms

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: mirror tate

Sentence: Jack was so mirrortated by George he started copying him.

Etymology: I wanted to do mirritate but it was already taken.

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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: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: mih-rih-TAY-shuhn

Sentence: As Alex left the dishes in the sink unwashed, he contemplated the hypocrisy of his own mirritation.

Etymology: mirror + irritation

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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: 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: pinwheel

Pronunciation: dop/ell/an/ger

Sentence: Jim quietly seethed with doppelanger as Suzie threw her dirty laundry on the floor, obscuring his own smelly socks.

Etymology: Doppelganger + anger

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COMMENTS:

Jim and Suzie were the spittingimage of each other -- or is spitting (as in spitting chips) only an Aussie saying? - petaj, 2007-04-04: 05:48:00

twice as funny if you're from Cork. (See Langer!) - galwaywegian, 2007-04-04: 06:08:00

i am from Cork which is why I laughed so much at this one. - suzanne, 2007-04-09: 19:31:00

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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: timmy

Pronunciation: Im hungrey

Sentence: I'm hungry!

Etymology:

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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: 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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