Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: twist/tort

Sentence: Johnny when opening a tight lid on a ketchup bottle is able to twistort his whole body, especially his face, to help him open the bottle.

Etymology: twist + distort

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Created by: leechdude

Pronunciation: pick-ul-jam

Sentence: Man, it's darn hard to picklejam this thing!

Etymology: pickles, jam (stuck)

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COMMENTS:

hello - leechdude, 2007-11-08: 21:07:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: rice pudding with a speech impediment rythe-pudding

Sentence: Yet again, Andy resorted to writhepudding to extract his dessert from the tin without a can opener. But it was a fruitless exercise. His strength was already depleted from the contortellini to obtain his first course.

Etymology: rice pudding + writhe

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: her-nee-ya-met-ic

Sentence: Roger needed surgery due to a pickle jar that was herniametically sealed because he wanted to prove to Carol that he was still virile. As he lay panting and in pain on the ground, Carol held the jar under running hot water, tapped it once or twice with a knife and it opened without effort. Then she called an ambulance.

Etymology: hernia: rupture or protrusion of an organ of the body or part of the body structure through the wall that normally contains it + hermetic: completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air; impervious against outside influences or interference

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COMMENTS:

cute word - Nosila, 2010-02-25: 11:12:00

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Created by: Whittier

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: boch-al-iz-uh m

Sentence: Whenever Harry tries to display his machoism, like when asks him to open a jar of pickles, it quickly turns into a case of botchalism.

Etymology: botch (to spoil by poor work; bungle) + ism (a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice) play on botulism

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Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: kən-Tawrk

Sentence: As I watched my girlfriend contorque to open the jar of peanut butter, I thought to myself, “This is not 'good' naked.”

Etymology: Latin contorquēre Latin torques

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Created by: bzav1

Pronunciation: o - pan - yer - izm

Sentence: John felt screwzy after nearly having an openeurism trying to get a pickle for Maggie. Several minutes gherkinating on that jar had left him exhausted.

Etymology: open + aneurism, screwzy - woozy from trying to unscrew something, gherkinating - the action of twisting the lid off certain types of pickle jars.

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COMMENTS:

I preferred gherkinating, butn you get my vote. - galwaywegian, 2007-10-30: 08:15:00

Ha ha ha!! Great word!! - libertybelle, 2007-10-30: 10:27:00

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Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: S

Sentence: Henry, despite all his schroucherization, could not budge the cap from Helen's bottle of nail polish remover.

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Created by: gcolton

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