Verboticisms

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: fresh-en-faze

Sentence: The diapers, the long naps, even the constant drooling didn't bother Harold, it was the urge to crawl around on the floor that disturbed him, he thought - he must get his happy knees back from his son in a hurry!

Etymology: fresh (new, young) + phase (a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind)

| Comments and Points

Created by: airliebee

Pronunciation: re-pew-bess

Sentence: Fred had worked his whole life, right up until his 86th birthday when the symptoms began. Repubescophobia had gripped him at 55 and refused to let go. His family had called it for what it was, just getting old, but Fred had stoically worked long and hard to stave off the inevitable. Now, he looked hopefully up at the doctor for an answer, but he quickly saw, with what remained of his vision, that her face said it all. He was going to repubesce, and there was nothing he could do. His repubescence was upon him, and there was no miracle drug on the planet that could stop repuberty. Fred was doomed, so he resigned himself to his fate and asked the pretty young doctor for a lollipop.

Etymology: re-: prefix, used to indicate repetition, or with the meaning again, back or backward to indicate withdrawal or backward motion. + pubescence: to arrive, or begin puberty (the beginning of adolescence when the sex glands become functional)

| Comments and Points

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: trans/figur/a/shun

Sentence: His friends were startled at the transfiguragetion Mark achieved by going on What Not To Where. His layette set with matching bonnet and bootees was the perfect outfit to wear to his Born Again meetings at the local alzheimer clinic.

Etymology: transfiguration + age

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

What a confusing paragraph. Voted! - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:11:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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...

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dee/age/er/ate

Sentence: The disease caused his body to deagerate at a rate much quicker than his family had anticipated.

Etymology: degenerate + age

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Good definition - cococo, 2007-06-21: 10:06:00

got my vote! - remistram, 2007-06-21: 10:53:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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.

| Comments and Points

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.

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

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

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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: un kynd ree wynd

Sentence: James had a daydream his whole life that he would never get old. As each decade past though, people he thought of as old in his younger days were now his peers or younger. Instead of saying "Wow, she's at least 50 and ancient." He would now say, "Hey, she's only 50/60/70/80 or 90 and looks great!" He knew he was getting old when he started going to more funerals than weddings and he read the obits every day in the paper to make sure he was not listed there. Although his mind was still young and foolish, his body started to betray him. Going to his doctor every week was now a social activity, one that he would use in conversations with, well, anybody ("You should see the size of my prostrate!) This once lively and exhuberant man was now experiencing the unkindrewind syndrome. Yep, his fountain of youth was drying up...he had taken a stroll through the Disenchanted Forest never to return...he wouldn't buy green bananas, in case they couldn't ripen in time! His latter years would be spent regressing mentally and physically until, with no family or friends around, he'd be left to the mercy of a temporary foreign worker nurses' aide who did not speak English. A nice enough lady who would cheerfully spoonfeed him with a clean bib at each meal, wipe his nose (and other parts), teach him to try and speak again and change his diapers. He thought she was his Mom...

Etymology: Unkind(lacking kindness;lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy ;circumstances that cause suffering) & Rewind (to go backwards;to reverse)& play upon "Please be kind and rewind" stickers that video shops placed on VHS tapes.

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-15: 06:02:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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)

| Comments and Points