Verboticisms

Created by: XMbIPb

Pronunciation: /as-tral-ob-se-shen/

Sentence: “Just like after the car crash that killed Princess Di, Jenny’s astralobsession almost drove her to suicide after Michael Jackson O.D.’d on propofol.”

Etymology: “astrum” n., – (Lat.), star “obsession” n., - compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or emotion often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety

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Created by: beccafuller

Pronunciation: Smutt-mon-ger

Sentence: If you weren't such a smuttmonger we'd have cornflakes in the house!

Etymology: smutt monger

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COMMENTS:

A monster of a verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 10:06:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fan ad dikt

Sentence: Emily was an absolute fanaddict when it came to celebrity news. She could not wait to get her daily fix on movie stars, tv entertainers and the Royal Family. She ignored her own family to read up on the daily gossip surrounding the rich & famous. She could name you all of Liz Taylor's eight husbands, but often had trouble remembering her own...

Etymology: Fan (an ardent follower and admirer) & Addict(someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction) & Wordplay on Fanatic (a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

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Created by: lindseyhamrick

Pronunciation: Sen-seb

Sentence: Annie has a sencebtion with celebrities. She belives she can be just like them.

Etymology: Sen: Holy Ceb: comes from celebrity

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Created by: ianbkk

Pronunciation: Pri-ohr-ti-LU-sionist

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Etymology: Priority - something important, delusion - believing in something despite all the evidence to the contrary.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: speer/i/tu/a/list

Sentence: In the States now there are so many crazed spearitualists that it is impossible to get through the day without being bombarded by her escapades. These people really believe she is a close friend.

Etymology: Britney Spears + spiritualist

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COMMENTS:

Had to vote for it! - galwaywegian, 2008-02-15: 07:52:00

Do spearitualists get speared? The 'spear' of it has so many connotations! So appropos at this time! But best of all ... hysterically funny! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 09:53:00

Ah, the religious order of Spearitualists. A scary thought. Great creation! - Tigger, 2008-02-15: 22:24:00

Three britneyspears for a great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-17: 16:21:00

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Created by: Maxine

Pronunciation: si leh bree ayt

Sentence: Celine, ever celebriated, lives in the two-dimensional world of popular magazines and gossip websites, neglecting to raise her head regardless of whether her phone rings, whether her dinner burns, or whether her frail father falls harshly down the stairs.

Etymology: celebrity, inebriate

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COMMENTS:

Indulgently good creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 10:47:00

I like your description of celebriation as a "two-dimensional world." Very insightful. - Tigger, 2008-02-15: 22:07:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: səlebseshən

Sentence: Jill has such a clelbsession that she finds it hard to leave the house. First, because she might miss some news about one of her favorites. Secondly, she has been known to squeal and faint at the sight of a local celeb in the form of the local TV weatherman who shops at her neighborhood grocery.

Etymology: celebrity (a famous person) + obsession (the state of being preoccupied with someone or something)

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Created by: Banky

Pronunciation: vahp-ah-rot-see

Sentence: The cubicle walls appeared to waver and then fix, and spots began to appear at the edges of Robert's sight. The worst headache of his life was beginning to effect his vision. He tasted blood in his mouth and realized he had nearly bitten through his lip. A peal of shrieking laughter washed over the wall from the adjacent cubicle. "I can't believe she left Ryan Phillipe! He's so cute!", squealed a nasally laser voice. "And did you see Kirstie Alley got dropped from Jenny Craig for getting fat again." the other gasped with breathless exhileration. Robert had done all he could; he had taken the issue to his supervisor, to HR, to the anonymous complaint line, but no one seemed concerned with the fact that the mind-splitting caterwauling day in and day out had prevented Robert from finishing the same report for three weeks straight. He swore he could hear their giggling in his sleep, and as his bloodshot eyes flicked aimlessly around the cubicle, the fabric walls beginning to get closer, as he looked desperately for a way out. A day later the headlines would declare "Lesbian Network Support Pair Found at HP in Apparent Murder-suicide". Photographs showed the Blade server unit used to bludgeon Marie, and the ethernet cable Darlene had managed to hang herself with. As he wiped the last traces of the tawdry note he had left at the scene from his thumb drive, and demolished it with a hammer, Robert thought that the two vaparazzi would be proud. Instead of reading sensational headlines, they were now making them.

Etymology: vapid + paparazzi

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COMMENTS:

Frightfully good sentence. Your sentences make me wonder if you are a professional author of mysteries and murder mysteries! Vaparazzi is so fun to say and evokes lots of mind play! Excellent etymology and creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 11:33:00

Thanks for the compliment, but I'm just a scientist...I obviously do enjoy writing the stories, though. Quite possibly as much as making up the words, as witnessed by this exceedingly long Tolstoy (in length only, not quality) - Banky, 2008-02-15: 12:19:00

Your colleagues are in for a treat if you write your scientific papers as interestingly and excitingly as you write here! I was stunned you are not a professional author of fiction! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 20:36:00

Like a modern-day Edgar Allen Poe. Creepy, but ultimately satisfying story. Great Verboticism too! - Tigger, 2008-02-15: 22:38:00

Great word and tale! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-17: 16:53:00

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Created by: ahem85

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