Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: stoōpərnōvə

Sentence: Ralph’s baseball team drafted him to fill in as catcher. He didn’t completely understand the need to wear a hard helmet along with the mask. He also didn’t understand that you shouldn’t lean forward as a pitch comes in. He now understands, or he will as soon as he comes out of his state of stupornova.

Etymology: supernova (a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass) + stupor (a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility)

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:) - galwaywegian, 2010-09-02: 09:55:00

stupornovel word - Nosila, 2010-09-02: 19:17:00

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Created by: kapnmurphy

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: star-spangld-BANG-ehr

Sentence: When the stars were whirling around his head and he heard the 'music' playing after rapping his head very hard on a low overhang Verne said aloud to no one in particular, "Whoa...that was really a starspangledbanger."

Etymology: Substituted 'banger' for 'banner' of Star Spangled Banner.

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Created by: rogueybear

Pronunciation: Par - kah - king

Sentence: "Hey dude, I'm really parcarking over here, I think I like it"

Etymology: From the common spoonerism of 'car park', especially the confusion that one feels after saying it.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon kus stel lay shun

Sentence: When the craniologists were experimentinmg with head blows, they were surrounded by a concusstellation.

Etymology: Concussion (an injury to the brain caused by a blow) & Constellation (a configuration of stars)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: Ass tro leea olo gee

Sentence: Dr. Sara Brum and Dr. Cy Napps were doing research into the newly emerging field of Astrogliaology, which they had stumbled on by accident in their lab and immediately filed for patent. Their experiments were based on the theory that if the brain were subjected to enough blunt trauma that one could cross dimensions and grant one divination by the constellations. In other words, you could see stars. Loosely based on the Zodiac, these inner stars would be renamed: Pisces=Pia; Aries=Axon; Taurus=Temporal;Gemini=Gyrus; Cancer=Cortex; Leo=Lobes; Virgo=Ventricle; Libra=Limbic; Scorpio=Skull; Sagittarius=Suprachiasmatic; Capricorn=Cranium & Aquarius=Amygdala. The possibilities were endless...the good doctors envisioned millions of suggestable people paying large sums to have the stars in their heads read. Their Astrogliaology Techniques could be taught at Star Trek Conventions and Pschyic Fairs. The only downside to their theorum was the fact that one-too-many trips to the inner galaxies might leave some of their clients even more brain-dead than they already were...

Etymology: Astroglia (a type of glial cell that supports neurons;tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells in the brain) & Astrology (a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon)

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So far in and yet so far out! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:24:00

I think this may be your BEST yet! Perfectly scientific mology. Would you consider being my holistic healer? - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:47:00

Why not? It couldn't hurt (me that is) could it? - Nosila, 2009-02-28: 00:23:00

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Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: bawnk-mose

Sentence: Just as Newton was inspired to study gravity by being bombarded with apples, and Einstein encouraged to investigate the relativity of time by being forced to fill out dreary piles of paperwork in an office, so too was the the young Carl Sagan influenced by an outside event. After banging his head on a low shelf, he saw a personal 'bonkmos' of amazing brightness and detail, which led him to a career in science and experimentation with certain herbal supplements, all in an effort to recreate the 'little twittery cosmos' he saw on that long ago day.

Etymology: bonk + cosmos

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Brilliant and lyrical! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:37:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon kus sent ing

Sentence: Drs. Wham & Bang regularly conked each other on the noggin with a baseball bat to test their stamina and duration of head trauma. At some point the mere violence of this act, and its affect on wht was left of their brains, became an act of love for them. Their results were not scientific, even though they were the acts of concussenting aduilts.

Etymology: Concuss (to injure the brain) & Consenting (as in adults having consent to do something)

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Created by: ctman56

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Sentence: After a friend hit Bob on the head with a basketball, he saw smackstars for a few minutes.

Etymology: Comes from the words smack and stars.....duh!

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: con/cus/tell/ay/shun

Sentence: Sally was a huge astrology buff and was disappointed to realize that the advent of tiny new planets in her peripheral vison was really just a concustellation, an unfortunate result of running into a tree head first.

Etymology: concussion + constellation

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COMMENTS:

heh! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-19: 05:47:00

the 2nd syllable (cuss) is what might happen after a concustellation! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:28:00

very clever.. - mweinmann, 2009-02-20: 08:02:00

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