Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: A conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of, one-half of a telephone conversation.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Converassion
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: con-vur-ash-un
Sentence: After hearing her on the telephone with her friend, he had come to the converassion that she had participated in a 2- to 3-hour whirlwind affair in a pastel-pink shower, involving lots of oil, lotion and 10 women, plus one who was "quite a bit rounder around her belly."
Etymology: conversation + ass (for assume, and for what the eavesdropper looks like once confronting the converser with their outlandish assumption)
Pshyconclusion
Created by: Rossco
Pronunciation: Sigh-con-Cloo-shun
Sentence: After apologising for his comments at dinner, Charlie explained that he had come to a premature psyconlusion
Etymology: Psycic + Conclusion
Eavesdropduction
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: eves-drop-duction
Sentence: Eve was a naughty girl who like to drop suggestive words into her telephone conversations because she loved to see Adam's reactions to his eavesdropductions.
Etymology: eavesdrop + deduction
Hictomagnet
Created by: dancer002013
Pronunciation: hic-toe-mag-net
Sentence: She didnt understand the hictomagnet.
Etymology: German
Evesdropping
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eeevez drop ping
Sentence: adam was constantly evesdroping, so eventually his worst nightmare came true and ironically, he thought she was booking a colonic at the time.
Etymology: eavesdropping, Eve's dropping.
Semiphonics
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: sehm-ee-FAHN-ihks
Sentence: Alex thought that Semisonic was going on a world tour, but it was only a case of bad semiphonics from his girlfriend's phone conversation with her linguistics prof.
Etymology: semi- + phone + logic + semantics. And it sounds like "Semisonic". :D
Goalist
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He should be feeling better not being such a goalist
Etymology:
Overherring
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: oh-vur-hair-ring
Sentence: Sue inadvertently threw Bob an overherring when he heard her say to the caller that she "hated him", not knowing she was referring to her boss.
Etymology: overhear, red herring
Surmoiety
Created by: tatterdemalion
Pronunciation: sur-MOI-i-tee
Sentence: Jack's surmoiety left him hurrying to the hospital after he thought he overheard his friend talking about their friend, Herb, having an bad accident, only to find out that his friend was only talking about "Herbie," his wife's VW Beetle.
Etymology: surmise + moiety (Middle English for "half")
