Verboticisms

Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: kiss/mesh

Sentence: I knew it was kismesh when the toast fell on the floor butter side up.

Etymology: kismet (destiny) + mesh (coming together)

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COMMENTS:

very clever pinwheel - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-20: 13:30:00

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Created by: Jaxies

Pronunciation: /sheet-uh-luk/

Sentence: "It was pure shytaluk that he'd asked her out on the same day she'd received a bonus at work and the pair of Jimmy Choo's she'd been eyeing dropped down to the lowest price ever."

Etymology: Shyte + (a) + luck

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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: artr

Pronunciation: yoōtōpēə

Sentence: Yes, that*s right. You are correct. In fact you are correct about everything. You are perfect. It is youtopia! And then the alarm clock goes off.

Etymology: you (pronoun used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing) utopia (an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect)

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COMMENTS:

You Knowpia! - Nosila, 2009-11-06: 22:34:00

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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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: para/dax/ee/um

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

Etymology: paradise + axiom

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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: 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: 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: 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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