Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: glad vers it tee

Sentence: Ruth was excited when the Feds came and picked up her partner, Les, for fraud. She thrived in gladversity over his finally being caught, especially since she was the anonymous source who tipped them off. Sure with him out of the partnership, she would be free to rename their business and start afresh. I mean, who wanted to work somewhere called Ruth Les Collections Agency???

Etymology: Glad (showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy;feeling happy appreciation) & Adversity (a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; a state of misfortune or affliction)

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COMMENTS:

Well done! "Ruth Les Collections" - hilarious! - splendiction, 2009-10-09: 21:55:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: yip-ee-vul

Sentence: after he finished his happy dance he couldn't help but feel a little yippeevil

Etymology: yippee, evil

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COMMENTS:

sounds a bit like Hoorateful - petaj, 2007-03-23: 03:12:00

I think his dance was the pox trot. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 05:49:00

followed by the tangotohell.. - rikboyee, 2007-03-24: 01:41:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: mel-uhn-jol-ee

Sentence: Joyce had a case of menanjolly when she heard that her major rival was being let go over a conflict of interest issue. The fact that she had presented him with the opportunity to do so pinged on her conscience just a little, but she got over that quickly.

Etymology: melancholy (depressed, sad) + jolly (laughing, joyful)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: glee - morse

Sentence: Frowning on the outside, giggling on the inside, Lucinda was thoroughly enjoying her waves of gleemorse as word circulated around the office that her social superior and tormentor, Elvira, had been diagnosed with genital herpes and was suddenly being shunned by all the single guys in the department.

Etymology: blend of glee and remorse

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COMMENTS:

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:32:00

Sounds like you have invented the gleemorsecode - Nosila, 2008-06-16: 19:22:00

Love it! Good one! - lumina, 2008-06-16: 22:35:00

Fantastic. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 02:54:00

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Created by: Loreshai

Pronunciation: shah-den-fy-yurd

Sentence: Jill felt slighty guilty that she was happy about screwing over her best friend in order to get a promotion at work. Jill felt Schadenfired.

Etymology: Fired - to be removed from employment + Schadenfreunde - german term to be happy when bad things happen to your friends.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: con-dole-ite

Sentence: Kerry was conflicted when her nemesis was infected with anthrax. She visited her in hospital to condolight with her.

Etymology: condole (express sympathy) + delight (pleasure)

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COMMENTS:

very nice Petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-23: 11:05:00

great word!! - porsche, 2007-03-23: 14:58:00

Inspired by Jane Austen - all those in Meriton who wanted to condole with the Bennetts while revelling in the juicy gossip about Lydia's elopement. - petaj, 2007-03-25: 04:12:00

Oh... And here I was looking for the Rice ref..(Condi, not Anne...:-) - Alchemist, 2007-03-25: 09:33:00

a word you might find in a Jasper Fforde novel - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-26: 09:06:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: foh - moshun - ul

Sentence: Genevieve felt foemotional when Sally lost her job. Even though she was her colleague, Genevieve did not like her and pretended to be sad when she cleaned out her desk...

Etymology: foe, emotional

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kulp a bili glee

Sentence: Faith could hardly suppress her culpabiliglee when her boss fired Edwin for sexual harrassment. She had hated the guy from day one, especially since he had failed to find her attractive and ask her out. Her manipulations and far-fetched victim's tale had finally forced her boss to remove her enemy.

Etymology: Culpability (state of guilt) & Glee (malicious satisfaction)

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /kahr-muh-LEV-uh-lents/

Sentence: Almost all of the women in the office thought Dean, the assistant manager, was a cheauvanistic jerk — he was just a creep. When he was eventually fired, he was escorted out of the office by security, his box of belongings in-hand. As the door closed behind him, everyone exchanged surprized glances, but a couple of the women recognized the look of karmalevolence on Jennifer's face. She was ecstatic that he was gone, but she suddenly wondered if any of her complaints to HR had anything to do with it... and if he had any kids. 'Oh well', she thought, as she marked a big smiley face on today's date on her desk calendar.

Etymology: Karma - in Buddhism, the sum of a person's actions in one life, which determine his form in the next (from Sanskrit, karman "action, fate") + Malevolence - feeling of ill will toward another person or thing (from Latin, malevolentem "bad wish")

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COMMENTS:

Great blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 02:55:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: simp/ah/thy/five

Sentence: It was difficult to sympathighfive with her colleague as she was escorted to the door by security guards.

Etymology: sympathize + high five

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