Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: or/all/mx/ay/shun

Sentence: The auralmixation was understandable considering his predispostion to shredded newspaper

Etymology: aural (percieved by the ear)+ mix (mixed up) + oral fixation

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COMMENTS:

love this one - petaj, 2007-01-21: 03:22:00

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Created by: mdschermer

Pronunciation: fohn-JEK-cher

Sentence: After eavesdropping on the conversations his roommate had on his cell, he phonejectured that the guy and his friends were planning to blow up faculty, while they were actually planning a surprise party.

Etymology: "phone" from telephone + "conjecture", inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence.

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COMMENTS:

Good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-18: 07:49:00

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Created by: Filthy

Pronunciation: i-ˈma-jən-fərn(t)s

Sentence: Quite the confabulation artist, Shirley made the imaginference that coffee had caused her daughter's allergy to rats after she overheard snippets of doctors' telephone conversations.

Etymology: imagined [ to form a mental image of (something not present) OR to form a notion of without sufficient basis] + inference [the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former].

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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: 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: onceinabluemoon88

Pronunciation: thank - seas

Sentence: thankies for that pencil

Etymology:

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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: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: sell/ah/no/mah

Sentence: His advanced stage of cellaknowma, worsened by listening exclusively to one-sided conversations meant that he always jumped to the wrong conclusion - which was very dangerous on the subway

Etymology: cell + Know + melanoma

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Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Grievesdropping on his girlfriend's conversation only made him more paranoid than he already was.

Etymology: grieve + eavesdrop

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: eevz-chop-in'

Sentence: His eavesdropping led to the eaveschopping that Sandra was in cahoots with the forces of uncertain evil.

Etymology: From "eavesdropping" and "chop". Suggests a blunt analysis (geddit? ne'ermind)

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