Verboticisms

Created by: Dougalistic

Pronunciation: Sokk-in-hell

Sentence: Where the sockinghell is my other sock? More to the point where has Ben gone!??

Etymology: Used in a derogatory manner without actually cursing. Can be used to describe anything that has gone missing like socks usually do in the wash. Sockinghell is also where your flatmate goes when he says he will be 5 mins in the Kitchen.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: darn blak hole

Sentence: "Why oh why", cried Sylvia,"does that darnblackhole in the dryer only take the sock that you didn't put your big toenail through"?

Etymology: darn (mend socks) & Black Hole (cosmos)

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Created by: indelible1

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: dis-SOK-uh-peyt

Sentence: Oh, sweet mystery of life, where do dahlgrens go when they dissockipate? Perhaps, to some strange Abyssockery? Maybe there should be a "duhrection," "clodicil" or even a "dillertive" on socks warning the naive and uninitiated that one will always "dissockipate!" What is it about this unexplained unithorlosity? Darn it, sixty years on, I'm still looking for the smallest thread of evidence of their wearabouts.

Etymology: Blend of SOCK & DISSIPATE: to scatter completely; to disperse & to disappear; used especially, of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. DAHLGRENS: an expensive brand of socks. THORLO(S): an expensive brand of socks.

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Unbelievable diverse dissertations spawned by this verbal lint-trap today. The compound creativity boggles my mind. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-06: 12:07:00

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: STICKS-uh-cull (alternatively: stick-SIGH-cull)

Sentence: Flo and Eddie drove down to the local Sudz-O-Mat with some trepidation. Flo didn't trust Eddie's laundry skills, and Eddie knew he'd suffer a tumble-dried fate worse than death if he lost just ONE of Flo's imported Mohair/Alpaca blend custom knitted reinforced-toe foot garments. After gently front-loading the best machine with Eco-friendly low-phosphate clinical-action detergent, Flo lovingly inserted her beloved socks and set the washer to "ultra-gentle". Flo positioned SweatyEddie on a folding chair right in front of the porthole and went next door to the pizzeria. Sure as shootin, when they opened the evil machine's greedy maw, Flo's coddled sockettes were riding solo, unpaired and unloved, traumatized victims of the mysterious STYXCYCLE which spelled the end of another modern relationship. Flo had insured her collection to the hilt, but although her temperment was set to NORMAL, she took Eddie down to the river and beat him on a rock in an effort to make him "come clean"...

Etymology: STYX+CYCLE=STYXCYCLE.....STYX:the principal river of the underworld in Greek mythology in which the Gods did their laundry;Latin Styg-, Styx, from Greek.......CYCLE:an interval of time during which a sequence of events or phenomena is completed < wash cycle,spin cycle> a course or series of events or operations that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point.

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http://www.oldewash.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-11-06: 11:33:00

hopefully they went to heaven where choirs of angels sing hose/anna in the highest - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-06: 12:11:00

Today's challenge has spawned a cornucopia of creativity that's going to make voting VERY difficult. What a crew! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-06: 12:14:00

http://www.myspace.com/floandeddie - metrohumanx, 2008-11-06: 12:20:00

Don't know when I've had so many laughs reading the stories behind the words!!! Didn't know there was actually laundry being done in the underworld!! - mweinmann, 2008-11-06: 13:22:00

NOBODY escapes washday :) - metrohumanx, 2008-11-06: 15:45:00

Terrific imput as usual. Perhaps the wayward siocks are trying to escape eternal darnation. Nice combo by use of 'Styx" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-06: 17:41:00

Styx and stones...it's great therapy to hear everyone discuss their sox lives... - Nosila, 2008-11-06: 22:05:00

Good one!! - Mustang, 2008-11-06: 22:18:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SOK-uh-biss

Sentence: Brenda was convinced that there was a sockabyss somewhere in the bowels of the laundromat because every time she did laundry for her husband Rob, one or more of his socks would come up missing.

Etymology: Blend of 'sock' (a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle) and 'abyss' (a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm)

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: dis-SOK-uh-peyt

Sentence: Oh, sweet mystery of life, where do dahlgrens go when they dissockipate? Perhaps there should be a "duhrection" on socks warning that one will almost certainly "dissockipate!"

Etymology: Blend of SOCK & DISSIPATE: to scatter completely; to disperse & to disappear; used especially, of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. DAHLGRENS: an expensive brand of socks.

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nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-09: 10:45:00

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: sok/oh/pathy

Sentence: The sockchopathy of lost socks has long been debated but remains a sockratic mystery.

Etymology: psychopathy + sock + path

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Be-lawn-derd-try-ang-el

Sentence: Carla wished that she could solve the mystery of the belaunderedtriangle, but as she sat and looked at the huge pile of odd socks that she had accumulated over the past few months she knew that it was highy unlikely.

Etymology: See Bermuda Triangle(a region of the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean in which mysterious disappearances often occur)

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I'll bet Carla caught a lot of static for that... - metrohumanx, 2008-11-06: 11:50:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: lawn-dra-sun-der

Sentence: He was her perfect match, her solemate; but the pair became laundrasunder by forces beyond their control. Although she tried desperately to keep their union from fraying it was obvious that their happiness was wearing thin. She tried to put a good spin cycle on it; however, one day the whole thing went down the drain and he disappeared with a cheap pair of nylons. "Darn it"! she cried, "I guess it all comes out in the wash."

Etymology: laundry: place to wash clothes + asunder: part with; separate in time or space

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