Verboticisms

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: cold-screem

Sentence: Poor old Trinkle Wilskins's imported caviar Koldskream gave her quite a fright. She could not figure out why when she looked in the mirror...her Mother appeared instead.

Etymology: Cold spelled with a K. and Scream spelled with a K. to be a version of coldcream- Coldcream - a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream emollient, ointment, cream - toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin. *If it doesn't erase 50 years off your face you'll end up screaming.

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: trŏsh

Sentence: She slathered it on with dreams of beauty. But nothing had changed when she dried it off. The vendor she'd met must've been wrought with cruelty! To sell the poor dame a bottle of Traush.

Etymology: Trash (a worthless object) + Wash (a cosmetic liquid)

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Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: X-pen-lye-s

Sentence: Look at those old ladies buying expendlies

Etymology: expensive- lies

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COMMENTS:

sticky wicked great - silveryaspen, 2009-02-16: 10:52:00

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Created by: feltcap

Pronunciation: ˈjʊŋ-krm

Sentence: The jungcream helped in her quest to find individuation by immersing her in analysis of her psyche.

Etymology: jung - a reference to Carl Jung, a Swiss psychologist who founded analytical psychology, cream - a cosmetic agent used to soften or smooth the skin

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: yuth an eyze

Sentence: Marjorie tried every product on the market in an effort to youthanize the wrinkles on her face. She realized that middle age was really the fact that you were caught having to use Clearasil and Oil of Olay at the same time.

Etymology: Youth (young person) & Euthanize (the act of killing someone painlessly)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: eel - loos - kin

Sentence: Marla was under the illuskin that all of the age-defying creams, lotions and injections had taken years off of her face. Despite spending hours every day applying various potions to her face, she still had loose skin.....

Etymology: Illusion + Skin + loose skin >>Illusion (delusion: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas) Skin (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch) + loose skin (not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey)

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COMMENTS:

illustrious - silveryaspen, 2009-02-16: 10:49:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: oint/mith

Sentence: At $139.00 an ounce the latest facial cream is another ointmyth to make your skin "look ten years younger in just days".

Etymology: OINTMYTH - noun - from OINTMENT (soft, unctuous preparation for application to the skin) + MYTH (any invented story, idea, or concept)

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Created by: scorp12871128711

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: mithiliksər

Sentence: Mythty may be mythguided or mythtaken but she let mythgivings go and put her faith in the mythticism of the latest mythsteriouth mythelixir she saw on TV. Was she mythled? Perhaps, but it was produced in her home State of Mythithippi.

Etymology: myth (a traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events) + elixir (a magical or medicinal potion)

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COMMENTS:

My tongue hurts! - otherguy, 2009-02-16: 07:05:00

Unmythtakeably good word! - Nosila, 2009-02-16: 15:58:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ponds de leeon

Sentence: Mother had used her cold cream since anyone could remember, faithfully twice a day, after cleansing. When she looked in the mirror, she saw herself as a younger woman, then the 89 year old person everyone else saw. She always called her beauty secret her pondsdeleon, instead of admitting the fact that she really should get some glasses.

Etymology: Pond's (cold cream used since last century to moisturize skin make it appear youthful) & Ponce de Leon (Spanish explorer who sought the Fountain of Youth, by leading first European expedition to Florida)

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