Verboticisms

Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: grand-ILL-oh-KWER-sats

Sentence: Mike mentioned to Jessica that Dr. Jim's "fancy medical jargon" really meant nothing; that he was grandiloquersatzing the whole thing, but she just looked at him as though some irony had passed over his head.

Etymology: Grandiloquent and ersatz.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: inter-LEX-i-con

Sentence: "Don't you go raising your highbrows at me, I know when you are just using your intellexicon to appear smart"

Etymology: intellect + lexicon

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COMMENTS:

love the highbrows - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-26: 09:01:00

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Created by: afireinside

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Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: ill lit er ay shun

Sentence: His constant use of illiteration embiggened his his visage to the pleanthe who assumed that his archaic phrases were perfectly cromulent.

Etymology: illiterate alliteration

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: soo dough verb aht sim

Sentence: Her use of psuedoverbotism fooled no one when she used the word psuedoverbotism to describe her own ignorance.

Etymology: psuedo - false verbotism - making up words

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: bling-wij

Sentence: Mark's resorting to blinguage to describe the effect of gravity on planets as "gravitosis" apparently left the professor unimpressed, as he still got a failing grade.

Etymology: bling, language

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COMMENTS:

tooralooraloora......binguage - galwaywegian, 2007-06-26: 06:13:00

Bling it on! - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 07:17:00

His dog's name was Blingo. (uh-oh.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-26: 09:39:00

Blingo Starr? - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 10:02:00

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Created by: blondibabi121692

Pronunciation: com plex ee low kway shus

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: semm ant hick

Sentence: his use of semanthicks at every opportunity was nonundiscomfitational.

Etymology: semantic, thick

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COMMENTS:

Good one. Semantrick would work too. - petaj, 2007-06-26: 07:59:00

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: foh-PAR-tuh-sip-uhl

Sentence: Challenge! Why everyone knows that a Brimbamble is a South American Songbird! Even though playing Scrabble with Hannah was combative, she could sling the darndest fauxparticiples.

Etymology: faux (pas) + participle

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ɛsəˈtɛɹəloʊˌdʒɪzm/

Sentence: Esoterologisms seldom win in Verbotomy.

Etymology: From esoteric + logism (as in neologism)

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COMMENTS:

We'll have to see what we can do to change that, then, won't we? Good word. - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 02:43:00

But this is so clear and not confusing that it can't be an example of a esoterologism. - petaj, 2007-06-26: 02:46:00

Ah, but a word sometimes appears learned and sound sophisticated because it actually is learned and sophisticated, and amazingly enough, this doesn't actually prevent it from being completely confusing. The obtainment of obfuscation is not mutually exclusive with technical accuracy. - ErWenn, 2007-06-27: 00:57:00

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