Verboticisms

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: bay-bee-bug-a-boom

Sentence: Here it comes again, Zoe sighed at the core of her heart, the nucleus of her being. Things really seemed to be coming full circle. She was referring to all the babybugabooming in the news lately: North Korea, Iran. Now her boss was entertaining ideas for marketing it and here was this crazy guy in front of her. They...whoever they were... had to keep fear in the mix and at bay, she supposed. It was enough to make you inert. However, she thought, as her creative juices started flowing, little children the world over might enjoy a BabyBugaBoomerang!

Etymology: From slang for worry, BUGABOO + BABY BOOMER referring to those born between 1946 and 1964 and grew up during the Cold War. Emphasis on BOOM!

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: al ahrm ah gedd ohn

Sentence: alarmageddon, when vocalised, is usually met with armagedouttahere

Etymology: armageddon, alarm

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COMMENTS:

astute observation, readily apparent meaning, right on the definition, great originality. Exceptional verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:32:00

can always count on you to diffuse a scary concept - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:41:00

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Created by: MissB5

Pronunciation: (v) poly-mal

Sentence: The nuclear war will cause polymal. The apes will attack with their nuclear warfare.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: nookleefeer

Sentence: Every news report about Iran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb adds to Walter's nuclefear.

Etymology: nuclear (pertaining to or involving atomic weapons) + fear (a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc)

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Created by: chaiandallthatjazz

Pronunciation: dub-ul-u-m-dI-e-tee

Sentence: Approaching 2012 there's an air of WMDiety amongst the peoples!

Etymology: WMD (weapons of mass destruction) + anxiety (worry, apprehension) + deity (God, divinity)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: the/big/bang/feer/ee

Sentence: Stu equated thebigbangfeary to all the nations on the planet giving ultimatums and counting to ten. It was inevitable that someone would push the button. Even balloons bursting caused him to break out in a cold sweat.

Etymology: The Big Bang Theory + fear

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COMMENTS:

Clever! - TJayzz, 2009-02-04: 07:30:00

terrific choices in your etymology for captures the feeling that sometimes the end of one thing is the beginning of another, even though we don't know what or if that may be. Your verbotomy will live forever in my memory along with hope. Super in the nth degree! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:47:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: ka-boom-uh-feers

Sentence: Gallon Greensplane, was sure that he could ease the kaboomafears of the others...as he explained how safe the new G.S.O.N.C.B.'s are. (*Global Swarming Organic Nuclear Cold Bombs)

Etymology: Kaboom -is an onomatopoeia representing the sound of an explosion. A Fear- A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: nu kleer and prez ant dayn jer

Sentence: Adam Bomber was the top sales rep for Gone Fission...the Nuclear Product Company whose sales targets were not bang-on! Adam Nuisance is what the Military Buyer, Dr.Oppenheimer, called him, because he was after them every week selling add-ons. "Yes, for this week only we are offering a BOGO on Pogo (a Buy One, Get One nuclear armaments sale, where you could wipe out the island of Pogo. What Adam did not realize was that POGO was an acronym for Project On Government Oversight, an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government.) You could say that his sales pitch bombed, his profits would not mushroom, he was a nuclearandpresentdanger to his peers and his targets imploded. People were not surprised to read in the Society columns that Mr. Adam Bomber would soon be marrying Miss Eva D. Struction were spending their honeymoon in Nagasaki Japan!

Etymology: Nuclear ((weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy) & Clear And Present Danger (Play on a Title of a Tom Clancy Novel, made into a movie)

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Awesome! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-05: 13:08:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: re ak tor re ak shun

Sentence: After the professor gave his lecture about nuclear proliferation and its destruction of our world, Enola had a reactoreaction. She worried that her nuclear family would not understand and would be in con-fusion if they knew about this disaster. Their fission vacations would change, no more gathering mushrooms and they would have a chain reaction to this news. She decided not to alarm them and to instead just Fermi la bouche!

Etymology: Reactor ((physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements) & Reaction (a process in which one or more substances are changed into others & an idea evoked by some experience)

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: fyoo-shun (like fusion)

Sentence: A frission of anxiety ran through Amanda as she read the magazine article on the H bombs. She did not know that is was a publication of the conspiracy theorists, and was soon in a complete state of fussion.

Etymology: fusion (a type of nuclear reaction) + fuss (worry) Frisson (a shudder of emotion) + fission (another type of nuclear reaction)

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