Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: shang ree lat tee tood

Sentence: It was as if the Gods had conspired and picked Rosalee to experience a shangrilatitude on Friday June 13, 2008. Everything her heart desired was fulfilled that day. She arose early to check her voicemails and received one from her boss saying he was giving her the next 3 weeks off with pay, as he had eloped with the love of his life. She enjoyed a leisurely breakfast on that sunny warm day on her terrace,checked her lottery numbers in the newspaper to discover she had won a fair sum and got a big bouquet of flowers delivered from "a secret admirer". Her shower had hot water for the entire shower and she was able to finally fit into that cute new dress she had bought before starving herself for the past few weeks. She decided to go out and headed straight to her travel agents and thought she'd check out a quick getaway for herself. She lucked out on a deal to Maui and flew out that night, upgraded to first class due to overbooking. On board, she was seated by a gorgeous hunk of a man, who as it happened, was single, rich and in search of a wife. They "clicked" and when they landed spent a glorious week getting to know each other in the island paradise. Before flying home, they went straight to a jewellers and bought her a honking big diamond ring. Rosalee's bliss knew no bounds. She called her family to invite them to her big celebrity garden wedding and was suddenly jarred back to reality by the customer lined up at her till in Walmart asking if there was a further discount on the Prada-like shoes she was buying for $7.38? Oh well, thought Rosalee, next time I get a shangrilatitude, I really should lie down before I dream!

Etymology: shangri-la (any place of complete bliss and delight and peace; imaginery paradise on Earth)& latitude(freedom from normal restraints in conduct)& attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)

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COMMENTS:

Shazam! Same thing happened to me once.....but it was from too much cheap wine. Good word!! - Mustang, 2008-06-27: 02:00:00

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-27: 11:03:00

Great word! And I was gonna say I want Rosalee's life, until "our" bubble was burst. ha - lumina, 2008-06-27: 11:32:00

Great word, love your stories. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-27: 18:02:00

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Created by: urbanwookie

Pronunciation: however you like

Sentence: In a moment of denihil it is eminently possible to make something out of nothing...

Etymology: de + nihil - also has a nice synergy with "denial"

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: pih/vot/vil

Sentence: Pivotville is a place you reach when deep in sleep where worlds and ideas collide and everything makes sense

Etymology: pivotal (climactic, critical) + ville (city)

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COMMENTS:

Also Square Dance City. - petaj, 2007-04-20: 08:01:00

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Created by: artgoddess80

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: Vertias is truth. Vertex is intersection.

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Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: la-la-land

Sentence: Everything is always perfect in lalaland.

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Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: Zen-you-foreea

Sentence: He was the handsomest man in the room and when she loked at him she had the zeneuphoria of seeing him smile and start walking towards her

Etymology: Zen- philosophy of equilibrium. euphoria- joy

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈθɛksəs/

Sentence: At a thexus, all of today's verboticisms would be correct.

Etymology: From the- (as in thesis, theory, theorem, and theology) + nexus

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COMMENTS:

But how can they all be right? That's impossible... - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:19:00

Not at a thexus. All truths are valid, even false ones. As Malaclypse the younger once said, "I don't know man, I didn't do it." - ErWenn, 2007-04-20: 15:04:00

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: noo-DAL-uh-tee

Sentence: Jeff finally stopped resisting his mysillium, and let his karass guide him to his ultimate noodality. He realized that he could be a Rotarian, naturist, a good Anabaptist, and worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster with no contradictions! It was all such fine granfaloonery!

Etymology: noodle, node, modality, reality, nude

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COMMENTS:

If Jeff was also a good naturist too, then your etymology could include 'nude'! - petaj, 2007-04-20: 07:55:00

done! - Alchemist, 2007-04-20: 08:51:00

Wow, creative collaboration! Dan Pink would be proud of your group kayveeisms. - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:27:00

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Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: dig-dang

Sentence: It was like niravanna! It was diggdang moment when Roger knew everything! When he could digg every dang thing in the universe. Unfortunatley it was a little too much for his head to hold, and it exploded.

Etymology: like the big bang theory, only backwards...

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COMMENTS:

I hope this word can sit in the thexus with coincidyll -- a "thank you" to petaj for the inspiration. - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:56:00

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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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