Verboticisms

Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: miss-sal-you-ate

Sentence: Alexander had a tendency to missaluate, but didn't realize how strange it was until he himself was hailed and embraced by someone he'd never seen before in his life.

Etymology: mis- + "salve", the Latin greeting + verb ending -ate

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Created by: bettyann9

Pronunciation: doo-fuss-trayht

Sentence: I'm such a spaz! I totally thought that dude was Jim and I dufustrated him!

Etymology: dufus-an inept or stupid person

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Created by: deannewby

Pronunciation: Hello-Oh-No

Sentence: I did a classic helloono yesterday, I was walking down the road and I saw Fred, shouted hello, and realised that it wasn't him - the man looked at me and crossed over to the other side of the road.

Etymology: Hello, for the greeting. O, for the realisation. No, for the embarrassment.

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Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation: rec-on-bare-ess-ed

Sentence: I'm so reconbaresed, I thought you were someone else.

Etymology: recognized+ embaressed

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: grong

Sentence: I gronged that undercover-police-guy today with a loud: "How's the H today ?"

Etymology: greet + wrong . ...... ......... .... ... ... .......... greeting the wrong person

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COMMENTS:

nice, clever simple - wordmeister, 2007-05-13: 13:55:00

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: greet-slip

Sentence: Joana had a greetslip as she asked Fred up for tea; but now they are living together, so it all sorted itself out nicely.

Etymology: greeting - to welcome. + slipup - accident

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COMMENTS:

I like it! - jedijawa, 2007-03-15: 06:50:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: random act of blindness

Sentence: Just as well Shelly had a superiority complex, as her randomactsofblindness meant that a lot of strangers thought she was totally nuts.

Etymology: random act of kindness (this could conceivable involve loud friendly greetings to randomly met strangers) + blind (not being able to see who you are really talking to)

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Created by: chatty

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: (Mes-greet-ng)

Sentence: She was surprised when her amorous greeting was given to her english teacher!

Etymology: "Mistaken" (incorrect, inaccurate), and "greeting" (sign of welcome)

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Created by: chercherlalun

Pronunciation: dop pel hi

Sentence: I thought I was going up to Bobby to give him a hug, only to find myself giving a doppelhi to a sweaty guy.

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