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: rephil

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: third childhood

Sentence: The first childhood is wasted on the young, the second childhood is spoiled by the responsibilities of a mid-life crises, but the third childhood is something you can really sit down and enjoy.

Etymology: It comes after the second childhood.

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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: 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: 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: 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: bookowl

Pronunciation: ee/lix/hill/ir/ay/shun

Sentence: The elixhiliration he felt when the effects of the wonder drug enabled him to fit into his old baseball uniform quickly dissipated when he realized he had last worn it when he was twelve.

Etymology: elixir + exhiliration

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COMMENTS:

Funny...sounds like me....beerlixir.. - Mustang, 2008-08-14: 06:48:00

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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: 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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