Verboticisms

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

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Created by: MissJones

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Sentence: Living with him keeps me in a permanent state of projiktation. You're so projiktable!

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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: swallowedbyafish

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Sentence: He and his roommate were stuck in a taxing sinbiosis.

Etymology: sin + symbiosis

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Created by: astraea22

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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