Verboticisms

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: rE-gret-shun

Sentence: Tom, at the age of 99, felt regretssion that he couldn't compete in this year's Ironnman.

Etymology: regression/regret

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gret word toadstool - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 16:39:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: un-ex-RETro-SPECT

Sentence: Gloria was a renowned unexretrospectologist who had spent years and years researching a cure for the disorder in hopes of preventing it affecting her. However, it had happened anyway. She now could do cartwheels on a balance beam in a tiny pink leotard, albeit with arthritic bent knees, false teeth flying out of her mouth and flabby arms akimbo.

Etymology: unexpected + retrospections (in the noun form of the word, suffix eon is used in place of the usual ion to represent the years and years)

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A retrospectorant might cure that. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 07:28:00

Or a night on the town with a retrosexual. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 09:45:00

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Created by: weyrlady

Pronunciation: dis-e-lis-i-um

Sentence: He was given the body of a man forty years younger. Unfortunately, that man had died two weeks earlier, leading to one of the most severe cases of diselysium on record.

Etymology: A combination of "disillusioned" and "Elysium", as in the Greek Elysium Fields. The Elysium Fields were said to be a place of perfect, ideal happiness for the dead.

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COMMENTS:

Impressive! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 14:12:00

Great word! Got my vote!! - Stevenson0, 2007-06-21: 22:59:00

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: ret-ro-PET-rih-fry

Sentence: Elmo J. Fox didn't mind getting old- he just didn't want to RETROPETRIFRY like those guys sitting on resin chairs outside the Veteran's Tapdance Administration. Elmo had too many good memories, and when he was driving alone he thought of many women he had loved, or believed he had. Turns out they hadn't loved him, though, and right now he just wished someone were sitting in the passenger seat - someone who would get his jokes - not his fuzzy slippers. The clear beauty of this vibrant day could only be better shared with someone....mabye that redhead at the clinic would like to watch an old movie some evening.....NAAAH ! Elmo J. Fox would eventually,inexorably,inevitably become: RETROPETRIFRIED.

Etymology: RETRO+PETRIfy+FRY=RETROPETRIFRY________RETRO:meaning "backwards" or "in past times"French rétro, short for rétrospectif _____PETRIFY:to make rigid or inert like stone: a: to make lifeless or inactive like an old fart feeding pigeons on a bench in the park on a saturday afternoon. Middle French petrifier, from petr- + -ifier –ify_____FRY: to damage or destroy by overheating especially as a result of unusually high voltage, too many rock concerts, or generally intense living.Middle English frien, from Anglo-French frire, from Latin frigere to roast; akin to Greek phrygein to roast, fry, Sanskrit bhṛjjati he roasts;late 1960s jargon "Man, that dude is FRIED!"

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Get my drift? http://www.textetc.com/workshop/wt-verlaine-1.html - metrohumanx, 2008-08-14: 02:02:00

ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-14: 02:06:00

great word metro - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:21:00

Good word, RetroMetro! - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 21:39:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dee/age/er/ate

Sentence: The alzheimer's disease caused his brain to deagerate at a rate much quicker than his family had anticipated.

Etymology: DEAGERATE - verb - from DE (added to verbs to imply reversal) + AGE + DEGENERATE (to diminish in quality)

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Created by: cococo

Pronunciation: ho - pee - ung

Sentence: He was Hopyounging in his last days

Etymology: Hope + Young

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Created by: sineadf1

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: yooth-duh-kay

Sentence: Grandpa was suffering from youthdecay, which was causing a severe case of glumdisease

Etymology: youth, decay, tooth decay

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That can have nasty complications with longperiodontitis. - petaj, 2007-06-21: 03:50:00

A cavortee is fairly unlikely, i suppose - galwaywegian, 2007-06-21: 06:16:00

No doubt he'd eventually develop gingivigoritis. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 08:05:00

Not if he uses youthwash. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 09:43:00

maybe an orthodontryst with some dental floosie would help - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 10:42:00

Sounds like orally good time. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:13:00

(insert oral roberts joke here). - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 11:24:00

Very well. Grandpa had to settle for oral, because he left his roberts at home. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 20:13:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dädlər

Sentence: LLoyd may be retired but he is still very active. He is part of a group that power walks the local shopping mall each morning. He hates it when he gets stuck behind a doddler.

Etymology: dodder (tremble or totter, typically because of old age) + toddler (a young child who is just beginning to walk)

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Created by: pungineer

Pronunciation: meth/thooz/al/eyes

Sentence: Henry felt as fit as a fiddle, since retiring he had taken up hangliding, white water rafting and book keeping, he felt as young as a kitten. His wife felt like she was going through a strange second stage of motherhood as she was keeping Henry in adult incontinence drawers so he could do all his activities with confidence... Her health care provider told her it was a classic case of methuselism.

Etymology: Methuselah - really old fictional character + ise - overused verbotomy suffix thanks for Ozziebob's inspiritional sentence...

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very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:25:00

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