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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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Parentalization
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: parent-all-eyes-ation
Sentence:
Etymology:
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
Heirball
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: e(ə)rbôl
Sentence: When Jared took a new job he felt the need to get a shorter haircut for the first time in years. The next morning, as he looked in the mirror he was startled to see his father's face. His reaction can best be described as an heirball, replete with a strong gag reflex and some of those sounds his cat makes in the middle of the night.
Etymology: heir (a person inheriting and continuing the legacy of a predecessor) + hairball (A hairball is a small collection of hair or fur formed in the stomach of animals primarily cats)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-13: 15:03:00
Cute word - Nosila, 2009-07-14: 22:00:00
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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
Progenitation
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Pro-jen-eh-tay-shun
Sentence: I was mystified and horrified when I realized that my progenitation was of neither of my parents but of Arthur, my dog.
Etymology: Progenitor (parent) + transformation / transmutation (a change)
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COMMENTS:
shouldn't that be transmuttation - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-02: 19:36:00
hmm, true, or at least transfurmation - ziggy41, 2007-07-02: 23:45:00
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Metamomphosis
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
Partyakparte
Created by: rahullotli
Pronunciation: par-tyak-parte
Sentence: John be a god child and stop this partyakparte
Etymology: konkani
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
Ancestrial
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
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)
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!