Verboticisms

Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: I-dill-you-mate

Sentence: Wal-Mart is thought by some to be an Idyllumate.

Etymology: from Idyll- an extremely happy, peaceful or picturesque episode or scene. from Consummate- complete or perfect. Epitome.

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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: Osomatic

Pronunciation: spiff tast icity

Sentence: When a state of spifftasticitiy is reached, all will be revealed. Such as what happens to the belly button lint.

Etymology: spiffy, fantastic

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Created by: artgoddess80

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology: Vertias is truth. Vertex is intersection.

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Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: Me-pif-an-ee

Sentence: The clothes, the shoes, the tiny chihuahua nestled in her purse - they all coalesed into a mepiphany. She grinned in spite of herself and screamed "I *ROCK*!".

Etymology: Me + epiphany

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Created by: thefreewheeler

Pronunciation: mee dee um rehg you lar

Sentence: Adams attributed his perfect score to a momentary seizure of mediumregular.

Etymology: medium and regular: both equilateral and equiangular

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: pi/vot/all/vill

Sentence: Pivotallville is the only place in the world where every concept is turned upside down and everything falls into perfect order.

Etymology: pivotal (crucial, significant) + pivot (turn) + all + ville (place)

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Created by: emmyb2

Pronunciation: Pan- veh-ra

Sentence: I try to achieve Panverra, but to no avail.

Etymology: Pan= all Veri=truth (Terra=earth)

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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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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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