Verboticisms

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

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: meta/mum/for/sis

Sentence: When her kids rolled their eyes at her comments she realized the metamomphosis was complete.

Etymology: metamorphosis + mom

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: morf an itee

Sentence: When that little devil, Lucifer Jones, starting acting up in school, his aunt realized that his morphanity was inevitable. Although she had raised him to be a good Christian boy, he was taking on more and more of his deceased parents' traits. There was hardly a day now that he had not broken a commandment or two, her nephew from Hell!

Etymology: morph (change into something else) & orphan (one without parents) & profanity (vulgar or irreverent speech or action) & vanity (feelings of excessive pride)

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: an - ses - tri - al

Sentence: Seeing his face in the mirror and the hearing the phrases spill out of his mouth was an ancestrial experience for Larry. It was spooky how much he was beginning to look and sound like his dad.

Etymology: ancestral, trial

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: pach-uh-REY-shuhn

Sentence: Cindy's realization of her inevitable paturation came with the consternation of the maladministration of her Haitian vacation.

Etymology: pat- + maturation

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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

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Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: THRESH-skold

Sentence: Mary was in the middle of critizing her son's eating habits when she hit the threshscold; running screaming to the bathroom.

Etymology: Threshold and scold.

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COMMENTS:

wasn't that a Moody Blues album "On the Threshcold of a Scream" ? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-02: 11:01:00

I can honestly say that I've never heard of that band or that album, but it is unfortunate that it's not as original as I thought it was. - Lapper, 2007-07-07: 23:50:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: trans/hor/ri/fi/kay/shun

Sentence: The transhorrification took place when he realized that he was more mom than mom.

Etymology: transmogrification (to transform) + horror

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COMMENTS:

Must be the horromoms... - jrogan, 2009-07-14: 23:45:00

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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

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: sun - stun - d

Sentence: Seth was sonstunned when he heard himself repeating the phrases his father had said during his childhood. In a moment of revelation he recognized that he was turning into his dad.....

Etymology: stunned (overcome as with astonishment or disbelief), son

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