Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: slug/ni/fi/cance

Sentence: The slugnificance of the moment escaped her as she slipped on its trail.

Etymology: slug + significance

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Why are slugs considered more repelling than snails? Does the quality known as "cuteness" have any intrinsic value in the cosmos? - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 16:56:00

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Created by: leechdude

Pronunciation: fun-gis-o-fo-beea

Sentence: Jenny was in complete fungusophobia watching the orange slime inch their way up the shower curtains and her own toes.

Etymology: fungi, fungus, phobia

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Created by: randomely

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Created by: svnfsvn

Pronunciation: fun gif iny

Sentence: fungifiny made me fall in the tub.

Etymology: fungi ephipiny

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Created by: Whittier

Pronunciation: koh-run-JAB-it-tayt

Sentence: Suzie sat in the bath so long, the mold began to corangeabitate her body

Etymology: cohabitate + orange

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: scum/prised

Sentence: Jenny was totally scumprised when the fungi lifted her right out of the shower and closed the curtains behind her.

Etymology: SCUMPRISED verb from SCUM (a film, or layer of foul bacterial matter) + SURPRISED (a sudden feeling of wonder, or astonishment)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mil doo plik kated

Sentence: When Jenny moved into her new apartment, she had made a spore-atic decision and decorated the bathroom in shades of orange and appricot. Because of the camouflage of orangy patterned shower curtain, she failed to notice the orange slime had mildewplicated itself on it. When she did notice, she felt smutty. Not only could she see them but horrors, they could see her, naked, every morning. Not knowing what else to do,she molded a plan and phoned her boyfriend. "Rusty", she purred into the phone, "I need you to come see me, because you are my fungi!"

Etymology: mildew (a fungus that develops in humid environments) & duplicated (reproduced or copied)

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COMMENTS:

"...molded a plan..." fantastic! Puns galore. - zxvasdf, 2008-09-29: 12:52:00

Wow! You really do your research, Nosmeister. Do you have a favorite fungus? I was once followed home by an orange slime mold. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 16:40:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: spor ror

Sentence: When Marion stepped into her shower at the Bates Motel, she was in for a fright. Instead filming a horror movie, she was actually in a sporror movie. The Agent orange slime was so alive, the shock killed her. The mildew actually mildid her in...

Etymology: Spore (fungi;a small usually single-celled reproductive body produced by many plants and some protozoans and that develops into a new individua) & Horror (something that inspires intense fear and aversion)

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Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: a-slime-ilation

Sentence: It was Borg-like; the way this fungus colonized Rachel's the shower curtain. "Eek", she screamed, "I'm being aslimilated!"

Etymology: amalgamation of the words "assimilation" and "slime"

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: spore-na-men-tal

Sentence: Lucy was pleased when her mother-in-law complimented the lovely spornamental in her bathroom until she realized that the old bat was talking about the slime on the shower curtain.

Etymology: spore: one cell reproductive body produced by nonflowering plants and fungi + ornamental: a plant that serves as ornamentation

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