Verboticisms

Created by: Banky

Pronunciation: mas-kuh-raid

Sentence: Agnes peered out at the world through narrowed eyes shielded behind cat's eye eyeglasses. She shifted her weight and raised her copy of Atlas Shrugged a little higher, so it could easily be seen over the divider between the booths in the coffee shop. Pretending to stare intensely at her masqueraid novel, she instead glowered out at all of the other patrons, the sheep, who sat there reading their John Grisham tripe or their Danielle Steele fluff. No one had the good taste thus far to come over and compliment her on her sublime taste in literature, so she surreptitiously slipped her copy of "On the Road" out of her oversized shag carpet purse, split the book open around the halfway mark, and began her charade anew.

Etymology: masquerade - a social gathering invovling people wearing masks or costumes + aid - something that assists in a task

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COMMENTS:

Good sentence--er, paragraph - ErWenn, 2008-02-14: 10:08:00

Yeah, sorry...I'm a scientist by trade, so verbotomy is my sole creative outlet some days :( - Banky, 2008-02-14: 13:53:00

Love your words and sentences. Cura masqua! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-14: 17:07:00

Your verbot is r-aid-iant! It shines! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-14: 18:26:00

Banky - you should be writing on the side! I love the way you can draw pictures with words. What a great imagination you have! - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-14: 19:40:00

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Created by: iwanttodirect

Pronunciation: carrot-tope-eeon

Sentence: Everyone at the office hates Rick and his carrotopian ways. "If I find one more fake spilled coffee, plastic thingy from Rick I'm going to poke out his eyes!"

Etymology: Carrot Top: prop comic. Uto(pian): I could be wrong but I do believe the Latin root pian is to live.

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COMMENTS:

Strange word -but I like it. Deo carrot topus! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-14: 16:30:00

They did carrot at all! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-14: 18:28:00

The word has a good sound to it. - ErWenn, 2008-02-14: 22:34:00

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Created by: Dougalistic

Pronunciation: Non-con-for-mest

Sentence: (Thinking about this - Give me a few hours.)

Etymology: Nonconformist - Unconventional, somebody who does not conform to an accepted pattern of behaviour. Messed - somebody or something in a confused, dirty, or untidy state.

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COMMENTS:

Excellent verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-14: 13:54:00

He's a few brainstormers to think about Dougie: malfessance, omnifessible, fessidressivore, dysoculafessic, fessumbulate. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-14: 17:18:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: garb/gair/ee/us

Sentence: Colin was garbgarious when he had the appropriate prop in hand, an ipod, or book, or was wearing an outrageous t-shirt in order to break the ice in new situations. Otherwise he slinked along avoiding all contact.

Etymology: garb + gregarious

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COMMENTS:

Clever blend. Seems Col meet with more than a few garbacles! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-14: 16:55:00

The ice-breaker angle is very appealing! Very nice verbot! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-14: 18:53:00

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Created by: bambam

Pronunciation: garment/tuous

Sentence: The guy over there was so garmentuous because he wore an orange shirt and rainbow pants

Etymology: garment + spontaneous

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COMMENTS:

Speaks volumes! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-14: 18:57:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈtʃædəˌlɪst/

Sentence: While the chatalyst did its job by starting conversations, they usually didn't consist of much more than "Why are you wearing a plunger?" followed by "To start conversation!" It just goes to show both that there's an art to choosing a good conversation crutch and that one cannot compensate for a complete lack of personality.

Etymology: From chat + (cat)alyst

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COMMENTS:

Outstanding word. - Banky, 2008-02-14: 13:52:00

wonderful word and funny sentence erwenn - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-14: 15:07:00

He was pestischatial, Great word; luv the sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-14: 16:33:00

Cana a chatalyst induce chatelpsy? Fun creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-14: 18:35:00

Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-14: 19:23:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: bliss el toe

Sentence: It never got old. Every Christmas, whether at work, a party or social function,heck even while Christmas shopping, Ronnie donned his blisseltoe. He was famous for it. People that had never seen it thought it funny and those who had seen it a hundred times were reminded it was funny. You guessed it...Ronnie hung a big sprig of mistletoe on his belt buckle. It was in the hopes that some girl would kiss him under the mistletoe. As he always said, it's worth it if it even happens once!

Etymology: Bliss (a state of extreme happiness) & Misletoe (Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas)

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COMMENTS:

I certainly hope I don\'t run into Ronnie! - artr, 2010-05-04: 12:15:00

Luckily for you, he's my brother-n-law in reality, not yours...you can pick your nose but not your relatives! - Nosila, 2010-05-04: 22:12:00

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Created by: Ryanosaur

Pronunciation: laɪs-brey-ker

Sentence: You could tell by how he held himself, in the corner of the party, with his rubber chicken, snakeskin flatcap and Winnie the Pooh shorts, Harry was, and always would be, a vapid licebreaker.

Etymology: Lice (irritating bloodsuckers with little-to-no individual personality) & Breaker (Citizens Band Radio Slang. a person who indicates a wish to transmit a message, as by breaking in on a channel.)

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Created by: LibbyR

Pronunciation: sat-ire-ical

Sentence: Jim has gone beyond 'ironic' - his nerd-cool specs are totally sattirical.

Etymology: attire (clothes, costume) + satirical (indulging in irony or parody)

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Created by: wileycount

Pronunciation: /prɒp/(tiss)(-tik)

Sentence: Since he was young boy, Jerry couldn't let go of his novel nuggets of stuff, for his fear of words was only warded off by the presence of an obvious token of meaning. His teachers, however, were indisposed to pity the proptistic lad. Or: Of all developmental disorders, proptism has remained an unrecognized and untreated tormentor of the socially disabled.

Etymology: prop (a person or thing giving support, as of a moral or spiritual nature: [related to Middle Dutch proppe vine prop; compare Old High German pfropfo shoot, German Pfropfen stopper])+ suffix -tism. The suffix "-ism" implies a disease or defining attribute of a person or a thing. The additional "t" makes "proptism" cognate to "autism".

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