Verboticisms

Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: THING ah ma THROB

Sentence: When you moved "Lucy" into the house I didn't complain, and when you took the door off so you could see her from the dining room while we ate, but your thingamathrob is not coming on our holiday with us. She...I mean it...is a lawnmower!

Etymology: THINGAMABOB:thing and HEART THROB: love

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COMMENTS:

nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-19: 15:43:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kar - door - ashun

Sentence: Jesse spent every free moment in the garage tinkering with and talking to "Carissa", his '67 Plymouth Barracuda. His cardoration was causing problems in his marriage. "You love Carissa more than me" his wife would cry...."it is plain that you cardore her". Jesse decided to invite his wife to the classic car exhibit in San Antonio this year. Perhaps she would enjoy taking a trip with him while he showed Carissa off....Jesse decided to think about whether that would help their relationship or cause further problems.

Etymology: Car (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine) + Ardor (feelings of great warmth and intensity) + Adoration (worship: a feeling of profound love and admiration)

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COMMENTS:

love/ly - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-19: 15:49:00

You could land an airplane on the rear window of a B-B-B-Barra-cooda! - metrohumanx, 2009-01-19: 15:52:00

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Created by: youmustvotenato

Pronunciation: meh-can-nil-ling-gus

Sentence: Hunched in the corner, Robert was enamoured in mechannilingus over the new features of his new iPhone.

Etymology: mechanical+cunnilingus

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Created by: naxos22

Pronunciation: in - ana - mo - phile

Sentence: An inanamophile treats inanimate objects ashuman beings or interacts with them as if they are alive.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: spin fat yu ay shun

Sentence: Carl loved his car, in fact you could say he had a bad case of spinfatuation. His favourite book and movie had been Stephen King's "Christine", so when he first took her out for a spin (or as he called it, on their first date), he named her Christine. His spinfatuation was automatic and he spent many hours learning auto repair, because he did not want all those grease monkeys down at the local garage touching her sleek chassis, never mind looking under her hood. His time alone with her in the garage soon became a fixation. His mother was worried, but found it hard to torque to him about it. She tried to steer him towards other activities (or even appliances), but he refused to shift and always yelled back at her, until she was exhausted. Her concerns were further fueled by his talk about marrying Christine. She argued that this love was not the wheel thing and their age differential was too great. His mother almost had a hemi one day, when she discovered that Carl had left a note saying that he and Christine had eloped. The next day, Carl walked home, leaking eye fluids, without the lovely Christine. His mother saw that he was ready to blow a gasket and asked him what happened. Carl broke down and said "I have made a complete axle of myself on my wedding night!" He told her that he had found out when she had made a transmission, that Christine had had some "work" done on her before they met, she was really a convertible... she used to be known as Christopher! She became the little engine that couldn't. Carl lost all his inhibitors and committed battery first and then vehicular homicide. He had come home to look for his cables...the jumpers. We knew it would all end in gears...Oh, the heart brake!

Etymology: Spin (a short drive in a car) & Infatuation (an object of extravagant short-lived passion;foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: muh - SHEEN - eer - ee

Sentence: Erwin had a serious case of machineerie for his cars and garden machines that was a strange sort of superstitious infatuation.

Etymology: Blend of machine and eerie

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COMMENTS:

I do find this car infatuation a little spooky - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-27: 11:55:00

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Created by: spotthecat1

Pronunciation: giz-moh-FEK-shuhn

Sentence: His wife, for the sake of the children and their marriage, tried to be understanding but at times there were arguments. Every Sunday morning he'd rush out of the house to lavish attention on her. When the water was just the right temperature he washed her gently. The special soap he bought for her foamed luxuriously and he rubbed her everywhere. He paid special attention to those hard to reach places. After the wash came the massage therapy. Hours and hours of rubbing and sweating paid off when the glow of satisfaction shined all over her. He laid back admiring her and happy over a job well done. With the sun heading towards the horizon, he cleaned up, put away the toys he had used on his lovely and closed the garage door. He headed back into the house as his wife shook her head praying that doctors would come up with a cure for his gizmoffection.

Etymology: WWII U.S. Navy/Marine slang: gizmo + (a)ffection [Middle English affeccioun, from Old French affection, from Latin affectiō]

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Created by: GlobalGallery

Pronunciation: Ped-al-filli-ya

Sentence: Although he lives in the inner city Martin's pedalphilia drove him to spend eight thousand dollars on a state-of-the-art carbon fibre mountain bike with dual racing suspension and titanium components. It remains indoors in 'as new' condition, having being ridden once in five months.

Etymology: 1.pedal - a foot operated lever on a bicycle. 2.philia - a fondness, craving or affinity for something.

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COMMENTS:

Great use of irony in your sentence. Your word too, in more ways than one. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-19: 18:54:00

Love it! - Nosila, 2009-01-20: 22:03:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /muh-KAN-uh-miz-um/

Sentence: 'Janice seems to really love her new food processor,' mused Charles as he left her apartment. She'd invited him over for dinner, but then she'd spent most of the evening in the kitchen with it. He was sure he'd heard Janice humming and cooing to it everytime she switched it on, and she would meticulously clean it between and after each use, admiring the sharp, shiny, new blades. As he got into his car, Charles told himself that he wasn't jealous, but this was surely a case of mechanimism, and he began to wonder about Janice's sanity. "Oh well," he thought, patting the dashboard of his Porche, "that just means more quality time for us, right Katrina?" (the car was named for her stormy personality).

Etymology: Mechanical - having to do with machinery (from Greek, mekhanikos "an engineer") + Animism - the belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects (from Latin, anima "life, breath, soul")

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COMMENTS:

I was going to use 'Mechanthropomorphism' but that seemed a bit too long... - Tigger, 2008-03-27: 07:29:00

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Created by: logarithm

Pronunciation: mE-shin-ni-ae-lih-ti

Sentence:

Etymology: From 'machine' and 'bestiality'.

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