Verboticisms

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: em-bar-as-men-tal

Sentence: Soon after Jill yelled across the dance floor, she realized the man she thought she recognized is a perfect stranger that thinks she is perfectly strange and the embarrassmental Jill races to find a dark spot in the bar to hide.

Etymology: embarressment/mental, as in mental case

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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: 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: 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: erasmus

Pronunciation: stray ngee side

Sentence: Tarra was always committing strangicide when trying to wave at her friends. I think she needs some new glasses.

Etymology: from stranger and suicide which is how small it makes you feel when you get someones identity incorrect.

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: how-dee-DOHNT

Sentence: Heavily jetlagged, I howdydonted half the airport before I finally found my pen pal.

Etymology: From "howdy-do", reconstruing "do" as "don't"

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Created by: DavidLMyers

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COMMENTS:

The combination of being flustered and feeling frustrated. - DavidLMyers, 2007-03-14: 15:39:00

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Created by: nikkii27

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: wave-off

Sentence: Julie had to waveoff by acting nonchalant after embarrassing herself when she called out to a friend of hers who turned out to be someone else.

Etymology: waveoff (take back or abort a greeting)

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