Verboticisms

Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: chro-no-sin-kla-stik in-fun-di-bu-lum

Sentence: You might think it would be nice to go to a chronosynclastic infundibulum and see all the different ways to be absolutely right, but it is a very dangerous thing to do.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for The Sirens of Titan, published in 1959.

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Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: bril - ah - blis

Sentence: The Whodawhat Zeppelins were the Little League Champions!! In this moment of brillabliss even the townfolk comparing the achievement to walking on the moon were right... they were all of them right, today.

Etymology: Brilliance - Bliss

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Created by: Trystera

Pronunciation: pan-WHERE-it-ahs

Sentence: The panveritas overwhelmed me in a great mind-reeling jolt, and I was overcome by simultaneous empathy and self-satisfaction.

Etymology: pan- -- Greek, "all" veritas -- Latin, "truth"

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Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: chro-no-sin-kla-stik in-fun-di-bu-lum

Sentence: You might think it would be nice to go to a chronosynclastic infundibulum and see all the different ways to be absolutely right, but it is a very dangerous thing to do.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for The Sirens of Titan, published in 1959.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: jux - tuh - dis - po - zish - uhn

Sentence: Having spent many hours over many days and months in trance and dental meditation, Ora Ghami had achieved a state of total juxtadisposition, at peace with the world and himself and finally and absolutely contented with his life, though still asking no one in particular, "Can't we all just get a bong?"

Etymology: Blend of juxtaposition, 'an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast' and disposition - 'the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude'

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COMMENTS:

love it - very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-27: 11:00:00

Good one...he achieved NERVEana! - Nosila, 2008-06-28: 00:03:00

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: COPAcetic+ZENIC

Sentence: I had just gotten a promotion, my son got into Harvard, my foreign investments were hitting the roof, but everything was still not copazenic.

Etymology: COPAcetic+ZENIC Copacetic: completely satisfactory, satisfying. Zenic: related to figuring out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: yoo-no-pee-ah

Sentence: he knew exactly what to do, how to do it and when it should be done...clearly he was in uknowpia

Etymology: know, utopia

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COMMENTS:

Nice! - artr, 2011-03-29: 18:41:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: co-ince-i-dill

Sentence: The coinicidyll immediately preceded the big bang.

Etymology: coincide + idyll + ideal

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COMMENTS:

you're never coincidle. - galwaywegian, 2007-04-20: 07:34:00

Maybe not, but I have been know to relaxynchronise. - petaj, 2007-04-20: 07:57:00

excellent word Petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-20: 16:56:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: koz-mi-rite

Sentence: Trudy felt such cosmiright that day, so much so that if she died tomorrow she'd die a happy woman.

Etymology: cosmic + right

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Created by: Bonta

Pronunciation: koj'-i-jam

Sentence: Trying to figure out what to do was a total cogijam.

Etymology: Latin: cogi (consider) + jam (to cause working parts to lock)

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