Verboticisms

Created by: bailandi

Pronunciation:

Sentence: "Oh man, did you hear Tom and Mary at the office yesterday, I thought they were talking about work but when I listened closely, it was more obfuscationshipspeak than anything else!"

Etymology: Using the word Obfuscate, meaning to make unclear and relationship, to indicate it's between two people. adding "speak" to indicate a new type of language comes from Orwell's 1984.

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: bun-nee-ban-tur

Sentence: Jill and Jack's bunnybanter was thinly veiled flirtation.

Etymology: bunny - (i.e. cute) + banter (i.e. talk)

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Created by: babel

Pronunciation: flur-tiv

Sentence: Anna knew John only wore his pink glasses when he was feeling particularly flurtive

Etymology: flirt+furtive

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: seks i kon

Sentence: Barry & Meredith had fallen in love at work. Since fraternization was frowned upon,and they were both partnered with others, they had to develop their own "Code of Conduct", to allow themselves stolen moments at work. It was their sexicon. "Catching up with my filing", in the filing room had a whole new meeting. As did "getting supplies" and "doing a donut run". But their greatest fears were realized when "going to the reproduction centre" became true.

Etymology: Sex (all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses; activities associated with sexual intercourse)& Lexicon (a language user's knowledge of words; a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dee sy for

Sentence: The 2 cryptographers at the remote intel-gathering outpost in Canada's wilds were in the business to decypher enemy codes. When they fell in love, it was very hard for them to desighfor anything!

Etymology: Decipher (convert code into ordinary language: & Sigh For (yearn after)

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Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: cripped a more

Sentence: He tried not to be overly defensive, but his sentiments for her were obvious in his cryptamoric rationalizations.

Etymology: crypto + amore

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Created by: kaenif

Pronunciation: [ˈɛrəglɒs] /EH-ruh-gloss/

Sentence: Their erogloss is becoming so subtle it is hard to understand, but they seem to be enjoying the decoding game.

Etymology: Ancient Greek ἔρως Eros - sexual desire γλῶσσα Glossa - language

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: luv-er-cuv-er

Sentence: in order to organise where they were going to hook up after the work function they needed to apply some lovercover

Etymology: from the italian 'loverco' and the french 'ver'...both of which mean 'to attempt to build a sand castle with dry sand'... so clearly this word is inappropriate

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COMMENTS:

I LOVE the etymology! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-13: 19:09:00

super etymology, and bonus for rhyming!! - Alchemist, 2007-02-13: 19:13:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sek-spluh-ney-shuhn

Sentence: When the Marketing Director and the Sales Director were caught in the supply closet together they had to come up with a quick sexplanation. Nobody really believed that they were looking for white-board markers.

Etymology: sex (coitus) + explanation (a mutual declaration of the meaning of words spoken, actions, motives, etc)

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Created by: wordnerd

Pronunciation: snee-ki-tee-us

Sentence: Those two are suffering from sneakitius!

Etymology:

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