Verboticisms

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: proff-fit-ter-or-ist

Sentence: Profiterrorists are making a bad name for those conservation groups that actually have a legit cause to defend.

Etymology: profiteer+terrorist

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Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: gloom/gam/ing

Sentence: Gloomgaming is a surefire way to keep young kids off the street and empty their parent's pockets.

Etymology: gloom +gaming

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: fake emotions

Sentence: they are playing with fakemotions

Etymology: fake ande emotions.

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: ha-bin-gain-er

Sentence: Reverend Wilkes found that donations to the collection tray generally increased after his more doom-laden sermons. He was wary of being seen as a harbingainer, but the way he saw it more funds to mend the church roof was hardly proheteering – it was to the benefit of his entire flock, after all.

Etymology: harbinger (a thing which tells of the onset of something) + gain (to obtain to one's advantage)

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COMMENTS:

good one - Nosila, 2011-01-21: 07:59:00

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Created by: bobditty

Pronunciation: shoe-blob-e-um

Sentence: I always get emails from shoeblobiums.

Etymology: shoe blob- something that is really anoying but you don't try to get rid of it.

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Created by: riflesandkids74

Pronunciation: Keh-pok-uh-list

Sentence:

Etymology: Apocalypse - Capitalist

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: hOly-cost

Sentence: The preacher hailed fire from the pulpit. Telling his flock to donate money to his cause, or they could be damned for eternity. He uses the old holycost trick to extract money.

Etymology: holy, as in religigous/holocaust, devastation or destruction/cost, as in money

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Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: flee-mong-er

Sentence: The fleamongers always call just as you sit down to dinner.

Etymology: flea + monger (a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way)

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: mor-al-tear-or-ist

Sentence: Jackie was a moralterrorist using fear and please of decency to appeal to her audience.

Etymology: morals + terrorist

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ärməgetn

Sentence: Earth End, Inc. is armagettin it while they can. Their ”Repent now. Pay less later” t-shirts have done well but their best seller by far has been the fire-and-brimstone-proof cash box.

Etymology: armageddon (the last battle between good and evil) + getting (acquiring)

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