Verboticisms

Created by: guyspeller1919

Pronunciation: grand-and-toy-i-toe-tis

Sentence: I had

Etymology: grand and toy a brand of paper

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COMMENTS:

nice job el diablo. impressive. - leechdude, 2007-11-08: 20:20:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: REP-robe-seshyn

Sentence: Felicity was overwhelmed by a nagging reprobsession with her emails, office correspondence and other kinds of on-line data and she compulsively printed out everything and sometimes made double copies to 'be sure' she had it covered.

Etymology: Blend of 'reproduce' (To make a copy of) and 'obsession' (the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc)

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Created by: serickson

Pronunciation: sub stan shull yate

Sentence: "But it will get lost in the ethers of cyberspace, which is only a fantasy world after all," grumbled Kyle when his boss told him he'd have to pay for the paper he used if he kept on substantialating his email messages. "At least this way I have something I can hold on to. Email messages aren't really real - You don't even have to be a magician to make them disappear. Look at this," he continued, nodding towards the stack of papers that were bowing him down," I can touch these...pant...pant...pant."

Etymology: substantial - solid, heavy, and real. substantiate - to verify that something is indeed something.

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Created by: looseball

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Puh-PIE-ruhsh

Sentence: Leighann knew that CDR media was totally reliable to store hundreds of her digital documents for years, but sadly they never gave her the same papyrush as the fresh smell of laser copies and printouts.

Etymology: Papyrus: classic Egyptian paper + Rush: an intoxicating wave of euphoria.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: reh-prob-SESSD

Sentence: Millicent is reprobsessed, burdened by a perceived 'need' to print out everything from her emails, office correspondence, on line bill payments, and other kinds of on-line data that she is inundated with daily.

Etymology: Blend of 'reproduce' (To make a copy of) and 'obsessed' (the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea)

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Created by: zxvasdf

Pronunciation: print pul sion

Sentence: When Bob became smitten with printpulsion, his apartment quickly became a recycler's paradise.

Etymology: Print (to print with an electronic printer) & compulsion (impulse to act regardless of rationality)

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COMMENTS:

nice combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 12:00:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Ey-fawr-REE-uh

Sentence: As copy after copy poured from Roxie's printer, fellow worker worried that her afourrhea would become dendricidal. Indeed, sadly, many years previuosly, her mother had succumbed to documentia.

Etymology: Blend of A-FOUR sized paper - the most commonly used paper for printing & RRHEA: a flow, a current.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: puhlp-lif-uh-rey-shuh n

Sentence: Joanne doesn't trust her computer. As many times as it has rebelled against her will and done what it logically wants to, she prints out all of her email. To add to the pulpliferation she proofreads each one, corrects grammar and spelling and prints them again.

Etymology: pulp (any soft, moist, slightly cohering mass, as that into which linen, wood, etc., are converted in the making of paper) + proliferation (a rapid and often excessive spread or increase)

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Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: Pul-Pish-O-Feel-E-A

Sentence: Margot's pulpishophelia was starting to get out of hand, since she became the office comptroller.

Etymology: Pulp-makes paper ish-is type of, relating to ophelia-is a hot chick

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