Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: park/tic/you/lar

Sentence: A parkticular person will circle endlessly until they find the perfect spot.

Etymology: park + particular

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: hatch-bak-trak

Sentence: Emily drove at speed to her destination, noting all potential spots (bonus if she could park face out), before violently cranking the gear into reverse to hatchbacktrack to the closest space.

Etymology: hatchback (a type of vehicle) + backtrack (to go back over the same route)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: bəmpərstôkng

Sentence: Joyce is an expert at bumperstalking. As people leave a store she will pull in behind them to follow them back to their car. She creeps up so close to some people that they jump and scream when she brushes the back of their legs. Once they pass the 5th car in line she drops them like a bad habit and circles around for another victim.

Etymology: bumper (a horizontal bar fixed across the front or back of a motor vehicle to reduce damage in a collision) + stalking (pursue or approach stealthily)

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: stal-king-lot

Sentence: Marta expertly circumnavigated the stalkinglot on Black Friday morning. She knew that finding the best parking spot would take cunning and patience. She watched and waited for her quarry, shoppers who have been feeding on the sales, to come out of the mall, tired and loaded down with bargains. Her strategy was to follow them to their place, closely, but not too close, to claim their space. Idiling quietly she would wait for them to tuck away their booty while displaying her turn signals to fend off any other spot hunters lurking nearby. Posessing skill and a trained eye, she caught the small movement of a car with its backup lights up in the front of aisle J and began to position herself to intercept their place as soon as it was vacated. She waited calmly and turned on the signals to warn other drivers that the space was hers. The people took forever to settle down their toddlers and find their sunglasses, but the wait would be worth it. Finally, the vehicle backed slowly out of the space and she was about to claim her prize, when out of nowhere, a white minivan with the requisite soccer magnet appeared and boldly pulled into the space, right in front of her, denying her the victory. After a blast of the horn and some choice words and gestures, the spacehunter began to cruise the stalkinglot once again, waiting for another opportunity to catch the perfect space.

Etymology: stalking: to persue by tracking stealthily; to follow and observe + parking lot: a place you drive around in to lose your mind and/or religion on Black Friday, putting you into the proper disposition for the holiday season.

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /pahrk-SNIK-i-tee/

Sentence: On their sixth lap around the parking lot, Lois decided that Mike was just too parksnickety. They'd been driving in circles for almost ten minutes now, but it would have taken little more than a minute to walk across the entire parking lot. Mike had passed up every empty spot further than ten spaces away from the front door of the department store, and cursed every time someone else pulled in before he could get there. She just sighed and rubbed her temples again — Mike never won at Parking Lot Bingo, and she knew that asking him to park further out would only start an argument.

Etymology: Park - to place or leave a vehicle in a certain location (from Old English, pearruc "paddock") + Persnickety - requiring painstaking care; overparticular; fussy (extended form of Scottish, pernicky; of uncertain origin, possibly from 'particular')

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COMMENTS:

like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-15: 16:19:00

A word I can use in the future!! - Mustang, 2008-07-15: 19:45:00

Lovely. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-16: 06:56:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kərbvänə

Sentence: Ralph is always looking for the perfect parking spot. He is constantly seeking curbvana. Like a vulture circling some roadside carrion he will stalk shoppers as they returned to the parking lot. Some shoppers are so un-nerved by him creeping along behind them that they will forget where they parked or will return to the Mall to have a security guard escort them to their cars.

Etymology: curb (a stone or concrete edging to a street or path) + nirvana (a state of perfect happiness; an ideal or idyllic place)

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COMMENTS:

cute - Nosila, 2009-11-20: 01:15:00

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Created by: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Sir-Kum-Park-A-Lies

Sentence: Anne spent more than ten minutes circumparkalyzing just to avoid getting wet in the rain

Etymology: Circumnavigate; Park; Analyze

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Created by: grahaff

Pronunciation: sharp park

Sentence: The IKEA parking lot was huge. We then saw the perfect sharppark and settled in.

Etymology: sharp (smart) park (park)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: moto ry ot ee

Sentence: Mustang Sally, guess you better slow your Mustang down. Mustang Sally now Baby, guess you're known for your motorioty. All you wanna do is drive around, Sally... drive, Sally, drive. One of these early mornings,you gonna be wipin' those weepin' eyes, cause some other dude will park in your favourite spot and that's no lies. Mustang Sally, now Baby, get up early and beat that dude there!

Etymology: Motor (travel or be transported in a vehicle) & Riot (disturb the public peace) & Notoriety (the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality) Play on the tune "Mustang Sally", by Wilson Pickett...sorry, mrskellyscl, for planting another oldie in your head!!!

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Created by: petersn1

Pronunciation: lay-z

Sentence: I can't walk too far because of my laheyz ass.

Etymology:

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