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DEFINITION: v. The moment when a child realizes that they are turning into their mother, or father, or both! n. To suddenly realize that you are turning into your parents.
Verboticisms
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Transhorrification
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: trans/hor/ri/fi/cation
Sentence: It was a moment of total transhorrification when he realized he was more like mom than mom.
Etymology: transmogrification (convert, transform, or change)+ horror + horrific
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COMMENTS:
perfect for the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-02: 11:02:00
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Measma
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: mee as maa
Sentence: a terrifying measma occurred when she heard her own recorded message and thought briefly that she had phoned her mother's number, which was unlikely since she hadn't spoken to her since the morning of her graduation three decades ago. It was apparent that she was becoming aparent
Etymology: me as ma, miasma as in terrible odour
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COMMENTS:
Gets it. - Clayton, 2007-07-02: 15:12:00
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Miscegeneration
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: mis-e-gen-er-ay-shun
Sentence: As the "Big Four-Oh" approached, Harold began to notice the thinning hair, drooping jowels and vacant expression that in his mind characterized both his father and grandfather. "Maybe," he thought "I could stave off this miscegeneration if I were to leave home!"
Etymology: miscegenation + generation
D.n.hey
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dee-en-hey
Sentence: experiencing d.n.hey is a rite of passage
Etymology: DNA, Hey!
Parentllelism
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: pare/ent/lell/ism
Sentence: There was a definite parentllelism the first time he did a comb over.
Etymology: parent + parallelism (similarity)
Parenticitis
Created by: annieb
Pronunciation: Pa-rent-i-ci-tis
Sentence: I've got a bad case of parenticitis - I'm turning into my mother!
Etymology: mixture of parent and -itis
Epapaphany
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ee-pah-PAH-fuhn-ee
Sentence: The grey hair nearly brought Alex to an epapaphany, but the traces of acne brought him back to his senses.
Etymology: epiphany + papa
Relativation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: rel-a-tiv-a-tion
Sentence: Chuck had a relativation that he had morphed into his father when he told little Chuckie to pull his finger.
Etymology: relative: kin; family + revelation: to reveal; enlightenment; to experience a moment of awareness of divine truth
Bredmorph
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: bread-morf
Sentence: As she wondered why she had so many undesireable traits, it suddenly occurred to her that bredmorphing had taken place.
Etymology: bred + morph
Comments:
Clayton - 2007-07-02: 00:57:00
Paturation
Clayton - 2007-07-02: 00:57:00
Whoops.
Hey Clayton, is that "Whoops" or "Whoopee!" for winning the top spot in last week's author ranking. It was very close -- just 3 points between you, galwaywegian and petaj! Congrats to all! ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-07-02: 04:50:00
Congrats Clayton!! Where's the party?
Clayton - 2007-07-02: 05:20:00
Hey... I won?! Amazing! How the heck did that happen? I don't think I even had a single word that scored over 20 pts. last week.
Jabberwocky - 2007-07-02: 08:59:00
Never mind that bit - I'm with purple - where's the party? Since Galway and petaj were so close we could have an international one.
Clayton - 2007-07-02: 10:22:00
Listen, I haven't seen any of you guys throw a party following any of your wins. This is total bull$#!+
ziggy41 - 2007-07-02: 12:19:00
Congrats Clayton, and a party, when and where? ;P
If any artists show up at Clayton's party let them know that we are looking for illustrators and/or cartoonists to participate in our visiting artist program at Verbotomy. Please contact me at james@verbotomy.com ~ James
Clayton - 2007-07-02: 15:14:00
o_O
Guest artist? New style? Reminds me a bit of Shel Silverstein.
May he rest in peace. What a great writer!