Verboticisms

Created by: looseball

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Sentence: He looked so dang funny swartsnagering that jar of salsa.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: rivôltng

Sentence: It\'s bad enough that the pickle jar is nearly impossible to open but somehow the juice acts like glue to reseal the jar worse than before. The situation is revaulting.

Etymology: revolting (cause to feel disgust) + vault (a secure room in a bank in which valuables are stored)

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Created by: iluvenglish

Pronunciation: sroo-hard

Sentence: he has been srewharding onto that bottle of gatorade for the past fifteen minutes for exercise.

Etymology: screw, hard

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: maw-choh-GOT-cha

Sentence: Having always considered himself to be very manly and virile, Hector's self confidence suffered a major case of machogotcha when he failed at all attempts to open the jar of pickles at the office picnic.

Etymology: Blend of 'macho' (an assertively virile, dominating, or domineering male) and 'gotcha' (the fact of having beeen caught or defeated)

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COMMENTS:

Rolls off the tongue nicely - artr, 2008-09-26: 07:35:00

I like it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-26: 18:17:00

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Created by: retoricaljoe

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Created by: NeuroGlyph

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: jahr-CHAH-chah

Sentence: Bob found himself totally in a jarchacha, when in front of Mrs Sanchez, who he wanted to emundorosape perfectly, even to her love of Latin-American dancing and body-building, he couldn't, despite straining every muscle, open a jar of gerkins.

Etymology: Blend of Jar & Cha-Cha

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funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-26: 15:00:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: jär-p'ə-lěp'sē

Sentence: Walter's eyes were nearly bulging out of their sockets, his lips pulled back in a rictus snarl, red-faced and snarling, and Sue could see the veins sticking out on his forehead when she walked into the room -- she nearly turned and ran until she saw the pickle jar he was trying to open, and realized it was just a case of jarpilepsy, and his machochistic need to show her that he could pull out his pickle.

Etymology: jar (Middle English jarre) + epilepsy (from Gk. epilepsia "seizure")

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Created by: veranadine

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Sentence: He began to emascujarggle with assembling the new bicycle, to no avail.

Etymology: masculine, emasculate, jar, struggle, juggle

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Created by: zxvasdf

Pronunciation: Cir cum fail urence

Sentence: When the vein in his head popped out of place after a long bout of circumfailurence, he handed the jar to his wife who opened it easily. "I loosened it for you," he boasted.

Etymology: Circumference (the size of something as given by the distance around it) & failure (not successful)

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COMMENTS:

love the sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-26: 15:06:00

Happens everyday in households round the world... - Nosila, 2008-09-26: 20:21:00

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