Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: des/par/ott/o

Sentence: Desparrotoh occurs when you realize you've just gotten angry with someone who has cloned your bad habits.

Etymology: despair + parrot + desparado + oh

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Excellent blend. - Tigger, 2008-06-09: 22:19:00

Like the sound of it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-10: 05:31:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mir/i/tey/shun

Sentence: Mirritation occurs when you get angry at your kids for copying and doing something stupid that you just did.

Etymology: MIRRITATION - noun - from MIRROR + IRRITATION

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Good word. It could also be used to describe how you feel when you're having a 'bad hair day'. - Tigger, 2008-06-09: 02:36:00

Mirritation reflects poorly on ones character. - Mustang, 2008-06-09: 02:49:00

terrific - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-09: 09:20:00

And you have all those little mirror-images of yourself running around; great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-10: 05:26:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: irr it a bill a meee

Sentence: my irritabilimeee gets worse as my children reach adolescence.

Etymology: irritability. me

| Comments and Points

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: flaw-koh-pee

Sentence: He wondered if it was genetic or a learned flawkopy? Nevertheless Mr. Smithers could do nothing but complain about his son's constant nose picking.

Etymology: flaw + copy

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Good etymology. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-10: 05:37:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /MIM-urk-ree/

Sentence: Cheryl would sometimes sing to herself when listening to her iPod — not loud enough to bother anyone (or so she thought). But when Yvonne, her roommate, would do the same thing but much louder, Cheryl was sure, and out-of-key, it was just so irritating. And since Yvonne and Cheryl liked almost all of the same songs, it was even worse, because it was just a tuneless mimirkry of the same songs Cheryl found herself singing along to.

Etymology: Mimicry - the act of mimicking; imitative behavior (from Greek, mimikos "of or pertaining to mimes") + Irk - to irritate, annoy, or exasperate (from Middle English, irken "to grow tired, tire")

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

very nice - fits the definition vry well - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-09: 09:20:00

Mimarvellous word! - Nosila, 2008-06-09: 20:18:00

Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-10: 05:27:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: noy-mee

Sentence: Every time one of her friends twirled their fingers in coyly their hair, Jenny’s fingers twitched twice as fast. That’s so noymee, she thought to herself. And before too long, she had tied her ponytail into a series of rather intricate knots that resembled a small set of fur covered hand-cuffs.

Etymology: annoy me

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Short but sweet. Jenny sure has the strangest OCD I've heard of yet! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-10: 05:37:00

Thanks Ozziebob! - wordmeister, 2008-06-10: 08:26:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: walkawave

Pronunciation: i:nu:

Sentence: "The Sweetest sound in the world is the persons Own Name" - walkawave

Etymology: Source is unknown

| Comments and Points

Created by: Tanik

Pronunciation: pro-jirr-i-ta-shun

Sentence: Because Jeff was complaining about Sally's language using vulgar statements, she ignored him. It was an obvious case of projirritation.

Etymology: combination of project and irritation

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Very interesting blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-10: 05:34:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: Roger408

Pronunciation: auto - noy-ance

Sentence:

Etymology: Auto - as in self, self directed + annoyance

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Very thoughtfully constructed word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-10: 05:32:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: FOIBLe+EMULATION

Sentence: He was blissfully unaware of the foiblemulation he created by criticizing his coworkers who he did not even suspect were actually only mimicking him.

Etymology: FOIBLe+EMULATION. foible: a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual. Emulate: imitate with effort to equal or surpass

| Comments and Points