Verboticisms

Created by: Jasmine

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Created by: Morwen

Pronunciation: In-BIN-ee-date

Sentence: When I was naughty, Mom would Inbenedate me by telling me Dad would be home soon.

Etymology: 'bene' means good in latin. (seen in the word 'benefactor') 'bene' is placed in the middle of 'intimidate'

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Created by: Hjason

Pronunciation: Hair-ripca-jole-ist

Sentence: Your hairpcajolist ways won't get you anywhere, missy.

Etymology: hair-rip-cajole

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COMMENTS:

- Hjason, 2006-12-19: 13:38:00

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Created by: Lyokia

Pronunciation: Ver-bu-salasity

Sentence: She used her favorite verbusality to get her kid to do her bidding.

Etymology: verbal-abuse

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Created by: squashy

Pronunciation: waren-curraj

Sentence: she warencouraged me that if i didnt tidy my room she wouldn't tell the easter bunny which kind of eggs i liked

Etymology: warn and encourage

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Created by: ancientSept

Pronunciation: sub-spy-ur

Sentence: She supspired Johnny to do his homework.

Etymology: sub - meh. spire- took it off of inspire.

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Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: wet-noodle

Sentence: Jane was reluctant at first, but I wetnoodled her into doing my will.

Etymology: From the phrase "10 lashes with a wet noodle."

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Created by: nikdudnik

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Etymology: fix+saturate

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Created by: camel

Pronunciation: Sack-row-tort

Sentence: We'd sacrotort the poor fellow into cleaning our leather jackets after nights of Crisco twister with the scare of using him as our leather underpants.

Etymology: Sacro (holy), extortion

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COMMENTS:

clever! - jrogan, 2006-12-19: 02:34:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: gōdəvāt

Sentence: Sarah was always told that it is better to get people going with a carrot rather than a stick. Her take on this is to goadivate her workers by occasionally slapping them upside the head with the carrot.

Etymology: goad (a thing that stimulates someone into action) + motivate, stimulate someone*s interest in or enthusiasm for doing something)

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COMMENTS:

Goad word! - Nosila, 2009-12-23: 08:16:00

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