Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: v. To identify so strongly with character from a book, show, or urban legend, that you become convinced that the story is actually about you. n., A person who believes they are a fictional character in wonderfully tragic and heroic story.
Verboticisms
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Transmogrifancy
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: tranz - MOG - ruh - fan - see
Sentence: While reading fantasy stories Mary Beth would often transmogrifancy and actually come to believe she was the heroine in the story.
Etymology: Transmogrify + fancy (fantasize)
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COMMENTS:
Anyone that takes a root word from Calvin and Hobbes has my automatic vote. - Banky, 2008-01-24: 15:35:00
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Transforminator
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: transfôrmənātər
Sentence: Billy has no personality of his own. He is a transforminator. Whatever "super" character is presented in a movie, TV show or video game he becomes. When he saw Star Wars he was convinced that the force was with him. He re-named the family sheepdog Chewie. When the Matrix was released it was a long trench coat and shades. There was a lot of snarling and grunting emanating from Billy's room when the Hulk was in the theater. His mother doesn't know what to expect if they make a live-action version of Wonder Woman as rumored.
Etymology: Transformer (Transformers is a 2007 live-action film adaptation of the Transformers toy franchise) + Terminator (The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction/action film directed and co-written by James Cameron. It features Arnold Schwarzenegger
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COMMENTS:
nice combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-17: 12:56:00
VERY thorough mocking. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-19: 20:15:00
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Proletagonist
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: prohl-tag-oh-nizt
Sentence: Despite his convictions that he could easily clean the Augean stables, woo the heart of Estella, or lead the Joad family to the fruitful valleys of California, James was just your average proletagonist working the day shift at Kinko's.
Etymology: prole - short for proletariat, the working class, protagonist (- pro) - the primary character of a piece of fiction
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COMMENTS:
Alas, poor James. :) - yellowbird, 2008-01-24: 15:18:00
James is probably not your average prole, if he's working at Kinko's! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-24: 16:11:00
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Biobliophile
Created by: loxhobabl
Pronunciation: by-o-blee-o-file
Sentence: You know she's a biobliophile if she clicks her heels together when she's homesick.
Etymology: biography + bibliophile
Hollylusional
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: Hol/ly/lus/ion/al
Sentence: With each new blockbuster movie, Jimmy becomes Hollylusional taking on all the characteristics of one of the main characters.
Etymology: Hollywood + delusional
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COMMENTS:
Perhaps it's time he was prescribed "blockbusters!" Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-24: 16:21:00
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Hollylusional
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: hoe/lee/lew/shun/al
Sentence: With each new blockbuster movie, Jimmy becomes Hollylusional taking on all the characteristics of one of the main characters.
Etymology: Hollywood + delusional
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COMMENTS:
I think I know Jimmy. - Mustang, 2008-11-17: 22:49:00
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Spydentifies
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: spy dent if fyez
Sentence: Under the clever disguise of a humble sales associate at Home Depot, Sean Moore spydentifies better with his hero, James Bond. Ever vigilant, his imagination in overdrive, he sees KGB agents lurking in Paints...why do they really need fourteen gallons of red paint? Personally Sean prefers his paint shaken, not stirred. That shifty foreign character over in Electrical, is he really buying a new doorbell or parts to build a dirty bomb? And that glamorous femme fatale in Tools...she probably has gotten her marksman accreditation with nail guns and power tools. Sean would like to nail her. And when he goes into the Outdoors Dept., he likes to practise his fencing moves. Touche! Sean stays in top form until the day he will get the call to serve his country and save the world...in the meantime, someone needs mousetraps in aisle 3!
Etymology: Spy (a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors;a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people;secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage) & Identifies ( recognizes as being; establishes the identity of someone or something;considers (oneself) as similar to somebody else)
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COMMENTS:
Some idiot always needs mousetraps. Cute word. - artr, 2010-04-14: 12:17:00
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Dejalieu
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: day-ja-loo
Sentence: Unfortunately, when Sandra read The Metamorphosis to her rodent friend, he experienced such a strong feeling of dejalieu that he turned into a large roach and had to be smashed immediately.
Etymology: deja vu (a familiar feeling) + in lieu of (in place of, or instead of)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Dougalistic. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-01-25: 11:30:00
Everyone got me-deep into this definition!
As a veteran daydreamer, I can tell you that hallucinations ARE real. The good ones, anyway.
Today's definition was suggested by Dougalistic. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James