Verboticisms

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: bill-ee-pill-grim

Sentence: Marsha had a BillyPilgrim when she realized that she was the hub of her own universe and that everything was connected.

Etymology: Billy Pilgrim is the main character of "Slaughterhouse 5" and I was feeling lame today.

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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: 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: rikboyee

Pronunciation: poiynt-ov-vyew-toe-pee-ah

Sentence: for the first time ever, our family get together had not disentegrated into a slanging match, and everyone left feeling amiable....it was as if we had been in some sort of pointofviewtopia

Etymology: point of view, utopia

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COMMENTS:

Is that like being at the point of utopia, but not quite actually getting there? - petaj, 2007-04-20: 07:21:00

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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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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: fact/a/see

Sentence: Clarence laughed at Shoshana when she came home with her pair of Prada's from Walmart. He knew she was gullible but $7.38? She didn't care what he said or thought. She knew it was just another one of her factasies coming true! It was just one of many that day.

Etymology: Fact:an event known to have happened or something known to have existed. asy: derivative of fantasy: mythology and folklore

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COMMENTS:

good one! - reverb, 2008-06-27: 12:48:00

She should live on Factasy Island! - Nosila, 2008-06-28: 00:00:00

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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: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: con-junct-shure

Sentence: Today felt like no other day because everything came together in a conjunctsure like she'd never seen before and she knew that everything would be perfect. Feeling sure and confident she went shoe shopping. Perhaps today she would find those special shoes that were both cute and comfortable.

Etymology: conjuncture: a coming together of events or circumstances, often at a critical time -- some scholars think that the Star of Bethlehem was a triple conjuncture of the planets + sure: certain, impossible to doubt, infallible

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COMMENTS:

Jimmy Choose me! - Nosila, 2009-11-06: 22:35:00

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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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: para/dax/ee/um

Sentence: After many months of meditating, Jenny was able to slip into the state of paradaxiom.

Etymology: PARADAXIOM - noun - from PARADISE (a place of extreme beauty, delight, or happiness) + AXIOM (a self-evident truth that requires no proof)

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