Verboticisms

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: sem-eye-cript-AHL-oh-gee

Sentence: Jim looked up as his wife hung up the phone. "What time," he sighed semicryptologically, "is your mother coming for dinner?"

Etymology: semi + cryptology

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Created by: riflesandkids74

Pronunciation: cahn-floo-shun

Sentence: "If you would really listen to me, we could easily avoid such conflusion."

Etymology: confuse + conclusion

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dy al log

Sentence: Eddie knew by the diallog that his wife Pat was having on the phone that they had already been selected for a free Bahamas cruise. Okay, all they had to do was pay for their airfare and expenses to fly from home to Miami and they would be liable for their hotel room and all other costs, but they had won a free trip!! I mean, how often could that happen???

Etymology: Dial (what used to be on telephones) & log (a record of messages sent or received), Wordplay on Dialogue (a conversation between two persons)

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Created by: Mirandala

Pronunciation: oh-ver-hee'-re-see

Sentence: When Jack secretly listened to Sharon's phone call and concluded that she was having an affair, but that was just overhearesy.

Etymology: overheard + heresy

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COMMENTS:

Well, I would have prefered overheresay, but I always prefer old english pronounciations =) You get a point anyway, it's a cool word! - allwise, 2007-01-18: 03:45:00

Well, I would have prefered overheresay, but I always prefer old english pronounciations =) You get a point anyway, it's a cool word! - allwise, 2007-01-18: 03:46:00

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Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: ass-may-kur

Sentence: Wendy, overhearing her mother on the phone, arrived at quite a gory assmaker.

Etymology: from "assume = make an ASS out of U and ME"

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Created by: galwaywegian

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: hem-eh-sneer

Sentence: Willard would often listen to his wife Wanda as she would chat with her pals on the phone and more often than not he would hemisneer at what he perceived the gist of the conversation to be.

Etymology: Blend of prefix 'hemi' (half) and 'sneer' ( smile or speak in a contemptuous or mocking manner)

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Created by: socks

Pronunciation: carv-i-tude

Sentence: I know now, from yesterday's carvitude, that she's going to drop me!

Etymology:

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: wənvərsāshən

Sentence: According to the oneversation Jill was either planning a surprise party for her friend Nicky or the covert overthrow of Nicaragua though the latter would seem less complicated.

Etymology: one (the lowest cardinal number; half of two) + conversation (the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words)

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Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: eerz-drah-ping

Sentence: Dave: "Did I just hear you say to Erica you're going to the Dane Cook show?" Sam: "Were you earsdropping??"

Etymology: Evesdropping + ears, because you do it with ur ears (on the phone) not from the eves....

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