Verboticisms

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: what us eeee

Sentence: their use of whatusi was wearing thin, he had already allegedly helped her remove something from her eye twelve times that week.

Etymology: wha us? watusi

| Comments and Points

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ədôrəbabəl

Sentence: John and Jill (she apparently dumped Jack) are just the cutest couple. They are slightly embarrassed to talk about their intimacy so they speak in adorababble sounding ever so much like a couple of toddlers.

Etymology: adorable (inspiring great affection) + babble (talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way)

| Comments and Points

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: fling-o

Sentence: Although each of them denied it, it was quite obvious from their flingo that Bob and Sue were collaborating on more than the project.

Etymology: fling, lingo (slang for language)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Great word! Reminds me of a pink bird (heh heh) - Alchemist, 2007-02-13: 06:56:00

I cant beat this word.. its just too good. - erasmus, 2007-02-13: 08:22:00

Cool! I've been making some verbombs lately. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-13: 13:07:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: dancemonkey

Pronunciation: In-FAT-Chew-Speak

Sentence: Katie and Arnold's infatuspeak got annoying, especially since the entire office knew what they'd done in the break room.

Etymology: From the noun infatuation and the verb to speak. Like you needed that explanation.

| Comments and Points

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: ko-deit

Sentence: They said they were just a team, but everybody could sense Dave and Ann was codating; the way they snickered when they talked, how they appeared at work at the same time every day and of course the strange sounds from the locked copying-room.

Etymology: code + dating/ co-working

| Comments and Points

Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: They chatted briefly in front of their colleagues about the temperature of the coffee, but it was mere jabberstraction from the rising heat between them.

Etymology: From: Jabber meaning to chat Distraction meaning to confuse and divert attention

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Good! I wonder what jabberwocky thinks about this? - wordmeister, 2007-02-16: 00:18:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sinyoōendō

Sentence: They had only been dating for a couple of days but they already have developed an entire vocabulary of sinnuendo. They can get each other charged up with the most common of phrases. It’s gotten to the point that that many in the office are uncomfortable if they speak to each other at all.

Etymology: sin (an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law) + innuendo (an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

in you end? Oh! great word - galwaywegian, 2011-02-09: 07:31:00

Beats youth in Asia... - artr, 2011-02-10: 12:09:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: spEEch-pass-ol-ogy

Sentence: David and Jill made passes in the speech pathology lab, using speechpassology.

Etymology: speech pathology/pass

| Comments and Points

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

----------------------------
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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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.

| Comments and Points