Verboticisms

Created by: officespace162

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Sentence: when paying $50 for bad tickets, you may suffer from the boredsicles

Etymology: bored because of the dissatisfaction, and sicles as in disease

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: coff-ling-go

Sentence: David used his large vocabulary of coughlingo, consisting of cough muffled obsenities, to express his thoughts on the opera Jill insisted he attend.

Etymology: cough/lingo, as in language

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hek spek tor ayt

Sentence: By the 12th act of the one man autobiographical play, the audience was starting to heckspectorate a lot. The haughty performer was convinced that a nasty virus was circulating throughout the theatre...he just did not realize that it was he who was making them all sick.

Etymology: Heckle (to try and embarrass someone speaking or performing by making noises, or wisecracks) & Expectorate (discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: in-fex-ee-can-wayv

Sentence: sadly for him, when it finally got to his ONE line in the play, the audience was in throes of an infexicanwave

Etymology: infectious, mexican wave

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Created by: joshk

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Etymology: When discontent seemingly crowd surfs over an audience.

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: In-fek-kl-ling

Sentence: The politician tried to deny allegations that he had sold peerages for funds, but he quickly drowned in a sea of infeckling.

Etymology: Infect + heckle. Heckle: to criticise a speaker loudly from the audience.

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Created by: paintergrl1313

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Sentence: The boss's speech set off the disgrurmurs.

Etymology: Disgru: Disgruntled, Urmurs: murmurs, Disgruntled murmurs.

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COMMENTS:

Cute one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-21: 10:48:00

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Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: Grose

Sentence: Every time I go to see the symphony the growss factor of the croud increases; it's extremely annoying, since I'd rather hear the music than the hacking of some hack in the concert hall.

Etymology: Grow (increase) + Gross (disgusting) -- also works with the gross meaning total, although not as well (and not originally intended).

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: A-hem-a-flem

Sentence: Mr. Swiner Imbecile hacked and coughed and sneezed as he spread his germs wherever he pleased. The crowd took cover with such ahemaflem furor! They all cheered when Mr. Imbecile was finally asked to leave...by the Antibacterial Police.

Etymology: Ahem; A throat-clearing sound; often read as ə-ˈhem\ Flem;Slang for Phlegm (pronounced /ˈflɛm/) is a sticky fluid secreted by the mucous membranes of humans and other animals. Ewwww!

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: yellp - eh - glot - tis

Sentence: When Francie grew bored with the subject material or plot of a movie, she expressed her displeasure with a yelpiglottis sound. Those around her did not know if they should call a doctor or call her rude.

Etymology: yelp (An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance; To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise, The basic call of the wild turkey) epiglottis (A flap of tissue (cartilage) located in the throat just above the larynx)

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