Verboticisms

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: 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: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: la-la-land

Sentence: Everything is always perfect in lalaland.

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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: 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: 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: daisy

Pronunciation: nir-va-na-fe-nom

Sentence: A Dukes of Hazard marathon, and now bag of pork rinds he didn't even know he had - this was definitely a nirvanaphenom.

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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: Rutilus

Pronunciation: seh-rend-veh-ree-time

Sentence: Clarice had stumbled upon a utopian place in time. The perfect shopping mall, stumbling across designer clothes at bargain prices, getting looks of amour from men and jealousy from other women. She was the best looking, best dressed woman in town; it was so apparently true.

Etymology: serendipity - act of stumbling upon pleasant surprises; verity - truthfulness; time - a moment or period

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: i-klek-TROOTH-ik

Sentence: Friday night's Happy Hour was an eclectruthic time for Bob and his best mates, Sizza and Kuz. With the Tetley's Smoothflow, Moosehead, Foster's and a few other brands of "truth serum" flowing freely, all kinds of truths fitted together ecumenically. And, as the evening rolled on, this tried-and-true trio: a Kiwi, a Ruskie and a Yobbo, in perfect harmony and absolutely right about everything, solved the problems of humanity in just under three hours.

Etymology: ECLECTIC: selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas; TRUTH: faithfulness, quality of being true.

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COMMENTS:

eclectic blend of words - impressive - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-27: 11:03:00

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