Verboticisms

Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: hack a tack

Sentence: His sudden hackattack shocked the restaurant diners. Some of the surprised onlookers noticed his sudden spasm of churling coughs froze; while a few others acted swiftly to aid the man whom they mistook for choking on a piece of steak. One onlooker, obviously either a doctor or first-aid graduate, began applying the h-manoeuvre to the man. He resisted violently with a shout “Whhwaat r u dewing? I ave a orrible cold and need to eat!”

Etymology: From hack (to cough in sudden, uncontrollable spasms) and attack (to act on something with violence or vigor).

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COMMENTS:

EXCELLENT word! I wonder if one can apply the Heimlich Manoever in REVERSE? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:42:00

Yes, that would be a good manoever for this particular guy! - splendiction, 2009-03-12: 22:10:00

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Created by: kalex

Pronunciation: m-yoo-ka-lep-tick

Sentence: My brother is a muculeptic, he spontaneously and perpetually spits all over the place.

Etymology: Muc-derived from mucus; leptic-to compulsively and persistently be afflicted VERB:Muculactate

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: in hoss pit abel

Sentence: anyone that inhospittable was always going to end up in hospittle

Etymology: inhospitable spit

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: spew trid

Sentence: When people cannot converse without being spewtrid, I avoid them like the plague.

Etymology: SPEW - to spit forth from the mouth. PUTRID - disgusting; spoils everything.

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COMMENTS:

Life is nicer when things are just ducky ... not yucky! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-12: 00:58:00

I actually met a person last week who kept spitting on me when they talked so this brought back memories and I, too, just couldn't stick around very long!! - mweinmann, 2009-03-12: 08:18:00

Moral of the story - never stand in a corner at a party - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-12: 12:15:00

Clever word! - splendiction, 2009-03-12: 15:56:00

Ick! Good word! - Mustang, 2009-03-13: 06:06:00

"spewtrid"-ific! word there Silveryaspen! spewtrid + terrific :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-14: 22:50:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: spit-uh-sawr-uhs

Sentence: The staff of the retirement home were finally able to track down their resident spitosaurus. They followed the trail of brown-tinted phlegm globs to the room of a retired baseball pitcher, Johnny "Spitball" Johnson. Apparently a family member had given him a gift of chewing tobacco.

Etymology: spit (to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate) + saurus (lizard: used to form the scientific names of certain genera of reptiles/dinosaurs)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: mew/cus/tu/mur

Sentence: Sally looked out the window in dismay as she saw Mrs. Smith heading toward her fine linen shop. Mrs. Smith was such a mucustomer that she had become a liability.

Etymology: mucus + customer

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COMMENTS:

clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-12: 14:16:00

Very ominous vignette. We like! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:38:00

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: rah SPYU tum

Sentence: I don't really enjoy eating with my brother-in-law or sitting anywhere with him for any length of time, because he chews tobacco and seems to think it's OK to spit anywhere, at any time. I'm always worried that he's going to accidentally/on purpose spit into my drinking cup at dinner. Worst of all, Rasputum, as I like to call him, somehow got my sister to pick up his nasty habits, too.

Etymology: sputum + Rasputin (a person who is felt to have an insidious and corrupting influence)

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COMMENTS:

love it! - Nosila, 2010-09-24: 02:05:00

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: shoot - um - spu - tum

Sentence: Clint and Dirk were both heavy spitters.... They could generate bucket sized quantities on a good day. Their sputum was copious and frequent but what irritated their friends was the shootemsputum that landed in places where no one would expect or intend.... Every day for them was a spewtemup at the OK Coral.

Etymology: Shoot, ShootEm and Sputum

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COMMENTS:

terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-12: 12:14:00

Mind- numbing grossology! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-12: 16:37:00

Now, loogie here pilgrim, we don't want no trouble here on the ranch. There's no place for lungfighters at the OK corral. - petaj, 2009-03-13: 06:24:00

Very funny. Yuch, yuch, yuch! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-14: 02:45:00

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Created by: Menotyou

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He has a problem he always spits he has spirettes.

Etymology:

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: spi FOON

Sentence: A lot of young women at my university don’t like anyone to know that they smoke. These women sit on the toilet and smoke their cigarettes so no one can see them. Part of the spifoon ritual in their cubicle spittoons is to spit on the floor while they smoke. It is really gross and disgusting.

Etymology: BUFFOON: a gross and usually ill-educated or stupid person SPIT:

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COMMENTS:

Excellent word choice! Oh and about those washroom puffers, they're in denial; others will know they smoke even if they try to spit off the stench! - splendiction, 2009-03-12: 22:15:00

Terrific sentence and word. Agree with you and splendiction ... no matter how much they spit, kissing them would still be like cleaning out an ashtray! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 19:18:00

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