Vote for the best verboticism.

'Don't kitty me!'

DEFINITION: v. To collect all the emotional energy you receive from one person, and then share it with the very next person you meet. n. Emotional transference.

Create | Read

Verboticisms

Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...

You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.

Transemototherapy

Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The kick he received playing football really hurt his shin. Lying in bed later, his wife was less than thrilled as she felt a sharp pain and realised his foot had carried out transemototherapy

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Scharblitz

Created by: Acostell

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Emofection

ubgrud

Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: e-mo-fek-shon

Sentence: After being dumped by a post-it this morning, Kate has emofected everyone around with her foul mood.

Etymology: I would prefer emotional Infection, or a latin emopatheogenic maybe, but emofection was more naturally understandable.

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

petaj emoflection would have been good too -- emotion + deflect - petaj, 2007-01-05: 20:19:00

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

| Comments and Points

Ferventing

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: fur-vent-ing

Sentence: ferventing is just another word for displacing, the psychological defense mechanism...

Etymology: fervent+forwarding, as in email.

| Comments and Points

Transmiffed

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: trans-miffed

Sentence: After her poor performance evaluation, Edna transmiffed her distemper to the next person she saw.

Etymology: transmit(ted): to cause, spread or pass on as in a disease or infection + miffed: petulant bad-tempered mood; huffed -- (distemper-an infectious, viral disease affecting dogs; deranged)

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

Transmiffologic response! - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:23:00

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

| Comments and Points

Collectiveemotions

Created by: GreatRandew

Pronunciation: Col-ec-tive-E-mot-ions

Sentence: Due to her collective emotions, any people that rub her the wrong way leave a negative feeling that propegates.

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Transpurrance

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: trans-pur-uhns

Sentence: Cindy is very close to her cat. Unfortunately Mr. Furball often sets her mood for the day. If he treats her poorly everybody in the office will do their best to stay clear. The emotional transpurrance can be deadly.

Etymology: tansferance (the shift of emotions, especially those experienced in childhood, from one person or object to another, especially the transfer of feelings about a parent to an analyst) + purr (to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does)

| Comments and Points

Catkick

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: CAHT-kik

Sentence: Don't catkick me just because you had a shitty day at the amusement park.

Etymology: from the age old tale of the person who gets shit on at work and comes home and kicks the cat.

| Comments and Points

Emollector

IHeartKiwiTarts

Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts

Pronunciation: "ee-moe-leck-tour"

Sentence: I am a totally emollector

Etymology: emotion + collector emollector yay!

| Comments and Points

Emoticonduit

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ee-moat-ee-kon-due-it

Sentence: As she angrily replied to his email with colon, left bracket..she knew she shouldn't be mad at him...but she'd just got off the phone with her mother... she was a classic emoticonduit

Etymology: emotion, conduit

| Comments and Points

Show All or More...

 

Comments:

Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-08-07: 09:28:00
Hey, Our Twitter feeds were slowing down the Verbotomy site because Twitter was hacked. See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10305241-62.html I have removed twitter until they get it fixed. ~ James