Verboticisms

Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: olts′hī′mərz

Sentence: Grampa James was slowly developing a case of Oldsheimer's. Young Cindy listened to him as he spoke to her about how much he used to love cannonballing in the community pool when he was a boy. "You know, Cindy- Gramps might just have 1 or 2 more jumps in me left...You wanna run outside to the pool?" Little Cindy was speechless and didnt know what to reply. "Aw c'mon Cindy, I've got that warm feeling I used to get when I jumped into a nice warm pool!" Thankfully, Young Cindy's mom interrupted and said, "Oh no you don't...someone made a stinky!"

Etymology: Blend of "Old" + "Altzheimer's"

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Nap-pee-dayz

Sentence: Bob's wish to be young again had finally come true. Having been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease he could no longer fend for himself and had reverted back to having a mental age of three. He was certainly back in his nappydays!

Etymology: Nappy(a piece of absorbant material wrapped around babies to absorb bodily functions)ORIGIN abb.Napkin + Days = Nappydays. See also Happydays. A comedy following a group of teenagers growing up in the 1950's, when their lives where full of fun and being young thought nothing could ever go wrong in life.

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COMMENTS:

funny, he became a fonz de leon - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:24:00

Isn't this a sad definition? Good word, TJayzz. - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 21:44:00

Very clever. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-15: 06:03:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: NAP-ee-ahrk

Sentence: Bob yearned to be young again and the leader of the pack; but instead this greying sexageranium [sic] - he certainly was "wilting" fast - was doomed only to nappiarch in a palzheimer's paradise in dwinetime with fellow mewlthuselahs

Etymology: NAPPY: garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [syn: diaper] & PATRIARCH: A very old, venerable man; an elder; Also used figuratively. DWINETIME: dwine OE (dwinan). to wasteor pine away, fade, languish, & wither, wane. MEWLTHUSELAH (mewl): to cry, as a young child & methuselah.

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COMMENTS:

great blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:22:00

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: di-si-DAWR-ee-uhn-eyt

Sentence: It was twenty full years before Jake realized that his desidorianation had come into conflict with his dreams of retiring by fifty.

Etymology: desiderate + Dorian Gray

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COMMENTS:

Too bad nobody told him at the doriantation - I guess it was a bit of a gray area - porsche, 2007-06-21: 11:54:00

Great word Clayton! Made me run to the dictionary. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 12:15:00

wilde sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 15:52:00

Heh. I oughta win an Oscar. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 20:09:00

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: reh - ver - rayzh

Sentence: The reverage was worse than anyone's ever seen. His teeth fell out and it was the last of his pork diet.

Etymology: reverse + age + leverage

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: in - FANT - uh - see

Sentence: Having already begun to enter the twighlight zone of his life, Harold didnt fully comprehend the full ramifications of what infantasy had to offer....fortunately.

Etymology: Blend of infant and fantasy.

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COMMENTS:

shades of the movie 2001 - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:23:00

Excellent word, Mustang...I guess that's why the mind goes first! - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 21:41:00

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: ju·ve·grun·tled

Sentence: There was nothing for it. No matter how happy he tried to be with the kind nurse spoon feeding him pudding, the old man was juvigruntled. What he wouldn't give for a nice steak and his own knife and fork.

Etymology: JUVI from juvinle and GRUNTLED from disgruntled.

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COMMENTS:

And his own teeth to eat it with... - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 21:45:00

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Created by: mdmquincy

Pronunciation: day- drool

Sentence: The dapper gentleman daydrooled as he saw the hot young lass eye him disdainfully.

Etymology: Me

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: in-fant-AZE-ya

Sentence: The downside of Morton's having entered a state of infantasia was that he was unaware of the real parts of his life much of the time, and the upside was that during his lucid hours he was not really aware that he been to la-la land.

Etymology: Blend of 'Infant' (n. a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk; baby. ) and 'fantasia' (n. something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque)

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COMMENTS:

I like this word. - hyperborean, 2012-10-17: 23:42:00

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: PEE-ter-pahn-DE-MO-knee-yum

Sentence: As George saw the silver hairs slowly overtake his once raven colored head, he went into a sort of peterpandemonium -an unsighlty display involving a bottle of Grecian Formula, a vapid 20 something girlfirend and digging his old Member's Only jacket out of the attic.

Etymology: Peter Pan + Pandemonium

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COMMENTS:

Funny. - hyperborean, 2012-10-17: 23:39:00

Funny story to a really good word - DrWebsterIII, 2012-10-26: 14:33:00

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