Verboticisms

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: 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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missed this the first time round - good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-05: 14:50:00

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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: 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: 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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Created by: Zahira

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Etymology: 'irri' from irritation 'pain'from the resulting factor of 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: 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: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ha-bi-tat-for-twin-san-i-tee

Sentence: After falling in the toilet for the third time that week, and not knowing if it was he who had left the seat up, Bob realized that rooming with Jeff had gone from peaceful cope-habitation to a habitatfortwinsanity.

Etymology: habit, habitat, twin, insanity, Habitat for Humanity

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lol..love it! - Sketchy, 2007-04-04: 16:21:00

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Created by: astraea22

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