Verboticisms

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: 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: rephil

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

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

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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: 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: texmom

Pronunciation: ret trow tour ing

Sentence: Herbert found himself retroturing into an 60 year old in the day care center.

Etymology: retro - looking back uring - the second half of maturing

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Created by: hyperborean

Pronunciation: SHRING kuhl

Sentence: "You're just beginning to shrinkle," the doctor said. "I'd say you have a few good years left."

Etymology: (shrink: to dwindle) + (wrinkle: to crease)

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