Verboticisms

Created by: astraea22

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: stoo + peeved

Sentence: I always get stupeeved when the party next door gets louder than my party.

Etymology: stupid + peeved

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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: 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: 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: toadstool57

Pronunciation: mir-ri-tate

Sentence: Jill manages to mirritate david, using the same annoying snort, as she tries to clear her nasil passage.

Etymology: mirror, as in mimick/irritate

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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: 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: 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: angel23

Pronunciation: (hall-air-i-um)

Sentence: She was in a natural state of hollarium when he showed up on her doorstep.

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