Verboticisms

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: 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: Osomatic

Pronunciation: youth + an + azh + ah

Sentence: Heck, I don't remember that, I've been undergoing youthanasia.

Etymology: Well, we've all heard about Ponce deLeon and his fountain of youth, maybe this is it!

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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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COMMENTS:

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

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: u/thin/ize

Sentence: Every Thanksgiving, Grandpa would squeeze into his college football jersey and challenge all his "grandboys" to a little game of the "pigskin." The family thought all his youthanizing was a healthy thing, so they not only encouraged the after dinner shenanigans, but they even shouted, "TOUCHDOWN" when he tossed the pigskin in the hoop.

Etymology: Origin: Euthanize-Mercy killing to prevent a prolonged and painful death. :-)

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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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COMMENTS:

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: 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: 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: jadenguy

Pronunciation: saoor griipz

Sentence: Henderson was our greatest success in the field of unoldenization. Degerontigising is not without it's foibles. The greatest shock comes when they lose their will to vote and decide to rebel against the man, but that's just sour gripes from a lack of social security checks.

Etymology: sour grapes + gripe

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COMMENTS:

unoldenization sounds good to me - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 12:29:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree jew ven ack erred

Sentence: when he had wished for the body of a much younger man, he had hoped he'd be able to control his dribbling a little better. He was rejuvenackered, he shouldn't have gone to the nightclub in the first place and it was going to take him the best part of what remained of the night to get these damn leather trousers off.

Etymology: rejuvenation, knackered.

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COMMENTS:

Got my vote before the sentence was even there. I can use this one, it's great to say out loud. - petaj, 2007-06-21: 05:48:00

great definition - he was probably hoping for rejuvenknockhered - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 11:09:00

Yes! - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:09:00

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