Verboticisms

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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Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: Stu-fa-conc

Sentence: I think it's a stufaconc, I made

Etymology: STUpid FAst CONClusion

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Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: hen nee pe nal i sis

Sentence: Don't worry, and please stop with the hennypennalysis. You totally misinterpreted what you overheard.

Etymology: Henny Penny (of "the sky is falling fame) and analysis

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Created by: omista

Pronunciation: tela-fela-nE

Sentence: steven, who barely ever listens, jumped to conclusions by commiting another act of telephelony

Etymology: telephone + felony

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like Steven relies on telephelony (i.e. he only half-listens) 100% of the time. - wordmeister, 2007-01-18: 07:53:00

haha, thats a very good one - ToblerOne, 2007-01-18: 10:21:00

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Created by: crissxross

Pronunciation: semiloozhun

Sentence: I came to the semilusion that her father's a pre-teen. Isn't in vitro fertilization amazing?

Etymology: semi + conclusion

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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: Carla

Pronunciation: wun-duh-ring

Sentence: Whenever she rang her ex, Paul would hover behind her, obsessively onedering what they were talking about.

Etymology: one + wonder + ring (to call)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: miss-call-cue-lay-shun

Sentence: he burst out of the bedroom wearing nothing but a christmas hat only to find her whole family in the room sipping warm cocoa....obviously he'd made a massive miscallculation

Etymology: call, miscalculation

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COMMENTS:

This part is just perfect for Hugh Grant ... lovely! - egonschiela, 2007-01-18: 10:36:00

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Created by: Kirubeza

Pronunciation: kohn-ver-ee-akt

Sentence: Having secretly eavesdropped on Melissa's side of her chat with her best friend Jane (about her recently deceased hamster, Toby), Martin completely converreacted and wholeheartedly believed that he was being rejected...

Etymology: Conversation and Overreact mashed together :)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: heer hur say

Sentence: Phonecia talked to her friends and relations constantly on the phone. George, who had neither friends nor relations, could not do the same. Therefore he tended to listen in on those half conversations and got his exercise jumping to conclusions. He always incorrectly assumed they were discussing him. He was half right. Especially the night he overheard Phonecia talking to her cousin, Vinny, who was an exterminator. Although it was hearhersay, George was pretty sure the pest control solution was meant for him. And he was right...RAID!

Etymology: Hearsay (heard through another rather than directly;gossip;assumption) & Hear Her Say (Hear a woman say, as opposed to hear what she hears).

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