Verboticisms

Created by: ooosofia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I didn't realize my whoopsage until a fellow partygoer asked if I needed help turning up my hearing aid.

Etymology: whoops! + age

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Created by: boviex

Pronunciation: embrej alt. embrAge

Sentence: She was embraged when she discovered that her age was no secret. When she saw the number of candles on the cake, her heart filled with embrage.

Etymology: Take your pick. Embarass(ment)/Age/Umbrage/(En)rage

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: grav tit tee

Sentence: The gravtitty of the situation was brought home to her when she went to the pool with out her industrial strength lycra swimsuit and the lifeguard thought she was being attacked by a pair of demented seals.

Etymology: gravity, titty

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COMMENTS:

Roaring with laughter. No one could keep from giggling when using or hearing this word and the images it brings to mind! Great sentence, too! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:24:00

so funny!! - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-05: 09:40:00

haha - bookowl, 2008-02-05: 13:11:00

clever & funny, luv the word too! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:12:00

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Created by: sean30

Pronunciation: Morti-fe-ons-cious

Sentence: Ive never felt so Mortifeonscious recently, after i was caught out over my age while taking my junior cert exam. I think growing a beard might have contributed to unmasking my true age!

Etymology: Mortify - Self-conscious

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COMMENTS:

Liked the 'eon' in there, too! When his fiancée found out his true age he was even more mortfeonscious! Neat creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:02:00

to hard to pronounce - purpleman, 2008-02-05: 16:51:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌkutˈfɛs/

Sentence: Before my so-called friends could sell me over the hill, I decided to cut my losses and cootfess that this was actually the 10th anniversary of my 29th birthday and not my actual 29th birthday.

Etymology: cootfess - from "coot" + "(con)fess" sell over the hill - from "sell (down the river)" + "(gone) over the hill"

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COMMENTS:

Was it the hootfest over his real age that made him cootfess? Catchy word! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 18:29:00

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: shaym-fajd

Sentence: Goldie wishfullied and prevaricaged she was in her 20's. She was outrajeoned and hoaryfied by those courageous enough to treat her like the forty-something she was. Their realizageshuns bombaged her and left her shamefaged.

Etymology: A play on being shamefaced when forced to admit one's real age ... shamefaged.

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COMMENTS:

so many good words - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-05: 09:42:00

Verbountiful! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:22:00

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Created by: novaspectyr

Pronunciation: an/TIK/wiss/ment

Sentence: The memory of their brief flirtation caused her such antiquissment that she could barely look him in the eye.

Etymology: antiquity + embarrassment

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: yoda/ling

Sentence: His yodaling was heard for miles when he was outed at his 90th birthday.

Etymology: yoda + yodeling

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COMMENTS:

Funny! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:23:00

wow nice combo - purpleman, 2008-02-05: 19:11:00

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Created by: seniouxa13

Pronunciation: trik-eyj

Sentence: This trickage is getting on my nerves that I'm getting more wrinkles on my forehead!

Etymology: From trick and age, literally to trick about the age

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: lie oc you lar dee jen er a shun

Sentence: Lothario loved the ladies. They were always first on his AGEnda. Seeing his silvery roots, gold-in-teeth with their age gaps, along with his lead bottom, ladies guesstimated his age breakit was in the 80's. The ladies gave him the cold shoulder, placing him in the ice age, making him start another lies age. Despite his best efforts, the laides considered him beyond the age of consent. Lothario, not only suffered from red-eyed macular degeneration, he suffered from red-lied lieoculardegeneration.

Etymology: Macular Degeneration - disease that can come with aging. Lie - to refrain from the telling the truth, particularly about one's age. Ocular - of the eye and sight which sometimes is not fooled. Degeneration - deterioration, not only from aging, but also social deterioration from embarrassment over age. Generation - another synonym for age.

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COMMENTS:

Lothario eventually met his perfect match ... lies age Delielah. - silveryaspen, 2008-11-28: 01:19:00

This one is quite a mouthful... :-p - logarithm, 2008-11-28: 01:48:00

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