Verboticisms

Created by: nohidden

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Created by: SethelMerman

Pronunciation: no-stal-JY-tis

Sentence: Watching my grandchildren learn to tie their shoes as my daughter tied mine, gave me a case of nostalgitis.

Etymology: From (Nostalgia:n a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life ) + (itis: a suffix used in pathological terms and denoting abnormal states or conditions.

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Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: dah - pend - ay - bee

Sentence: Old Tom loved most aspects of growing old, more time with family, playing golf, long walks with no destination, if only he could stop the dependaby transformation.

Etymology: Depends (diapers) - baby (infant), antonym of dependable

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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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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: Sill/ver/bloc

Sentence: As an honest writer of children's bedtime stories, PJ sometimes felt the retarding effects of writer's block, but when he was diagnosed with severe silverblock, he felt his life's work was a big lie and a product of his own vanity.

Etymology: Silverblock n. genetically modified variation of "silverback``, the lead (eldest?) male in a troop of gorillas, crossed with "writer's block``, a condition experienced by uninspired writers (perhaps in denial of lack of ability to be inspired?).

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: yooth les

Sentence: Doctor Payne broke the sad news to Theo that his mind was starting to reverse itself and go from adult to child again. He would soon go from youthless to useless and that prospect was sadder than any physical disability she could have diagnosed for him.

Etymology: Youth (the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person) & Less (comparative of little;used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs)

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Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: inn-fell-duh

Sentence: Becoming an infelder has stealthily snuck up on me while I wasn't looking. I can remember my childhood like it was yesterday. Actually, I could have swore that only yesterday they put a bib on me at lunch.

Etymology: Infant + Elder = Infelder

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Created by: Foghawk

Pronunciation: uh-BEAR-uh-joo-ven-ize

Sentence: Martin had the meaning of "careful what you wish for" driven home to him quite forcefully when a boring but admittedly good life in the retirement home was suddenly switched with painful hours in a seedy daycare after, one week in late December, he abruptly aberrajuvenized.

Etymology: From "aberrant" and the Latin root "juvenis", denoting youth.

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Created by: bwesterlind

Pronunciation: De-Sehn-il-If-Eye

Sentence: v: As they years passed he continued to progressively desenilify. n: The man in the nursing home was full of desenilify

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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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