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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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Geneshock
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Jen-eh-shock
Sentence: Looking into the mirror, Billy experienced a mild wave of geneshock as his father cheerfully waved back.
Etymology: Genetics+shock
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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Morphanity
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)
Partyakparte
Created by: rahullotli
Pronunciation: par-tyak-parte
Sentence: John be a god child and stop this partyakparte
Etymology: konkani
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: met+ a + mom + metamorphosis
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COMMENTS:
Been there, done that. Now I get the pleasure of turning into my grandmother. Great word. - mrskellyscl, 2009-07-13: 08:22:00
Too true! - Nosila, 2009-07-14: 22:01:00
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Threshscold
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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Sonstunned
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
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
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
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
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!