Verboticisms

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Muh-ther-Smuth-erd

Sentence: At home, I play a game of "Mother, May I" constantly. Due to my mom's fears, she has ruined the game, by making her answer always the same: "Mother says you may not!" Mother says I can't join the school band, for she doesn't want me playing around. Mother says I can't join science club, chess club, or a bridge club because she doesn't want me going to the clubs at night! Mother says I can't play baseball, volleyball, football, or basketball. She says "Who knows what you'll catch playing with all those balls!" It is nice to be mothered, but I need help. I've become a none in this motherhouse. You've heard of Mother Hubbard. Mine is MotherSmuthered.

Etymology: Mother and Smothered and a play on Mother Hubbard = MotherSmuthered. Mothered: loved, cared for, and protected Smothered: overly suppressed

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COMMENTS:

> She says "Who knows what you'll catch playing with all > those balls!" — Now that sounds like something a Sexcavator would say. - Tigger, 2008-02-22: 02:48:00

Are you related to Tom and Dick, the smothered brothers? - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-22: 10:13:00

Wouldn't that be neice? - silveryaspen, 2008-02-22: 14:42:00

Great word play! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-25: 19:09:00

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Created by: davem

Pronunciation:

Sentence: If you abominablesnowrabbit that child, he will have a bad first day of school.

Etymology: Eponymous to the character in a 1961 Warner Brothers Cartoon in which Daffy Duck and Buggs Bunny take a wrong turn on vacation and find themselves in the Himalayas as candidates to be the new pet of the Abominable Snow Rabbit, a giant yeti who "will love

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COMMENTS:

Novel concept: children as pets! Superb etymology. Fantastic eponomy! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-23: 16:49:00

Your ephonymous verboticisms have inspired other verbotimists to create some great eponymous verboticisms. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-23: 16:57:00

Mistakenly, I thought an epononym was any word that contained part of a name; a name with a syllable or prefix added to 'wordify' it as more than a name. But I was wrong!!! It is a name, and only the name, no additions, that is a true epononym. While I think you have inspired name-based creations, which are not true eponyms, it seems that (at least for the short time I've been playing) that you are the only one who has created a truly eponymous verboticism, in the strictest sense of the definition. Wow! Thank you for piquing my curiosity enough to researth this out. Any one else curious about the strict meaning of eponym might find this link helpful http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/eponyms/index.html - silveryaspen, 2008-02-24: 14:18:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: gwan tan am oth hur

Sentence: Her Guantanamother scared her girlfriends and terrified her boyfriends. she came downstairs on prom night to find her date hooded, naked, standing on a stool, while her mother made doberman noises.

Etymology: guantanamo, mother

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COMMENTS:

Thanks Galway - you exorcised Love Shakle but now I'm stuck with 'Guantanamera, guajira, Guantanamera' - sing it purple!! - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-22: 10:09:00

wantanamera, theres only wan tanamera - galwaywegian, 2008-02-22: 10:27:00

One ton o' mayo! Might heal ya, one ton o' mayo... - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-22: 10:48:00

You three guan and on ... singing your little hearts out! Guanatanamother is so farfetched it just hangs right out there, drawing us to it like a magnet! Fun one, galwayegian! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-22: 13:12:00

Loved it, galwaywegian, you GITMO better every day! - Nosila, 2008-02-23: 00:05:00

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Created by: ekky99

Pronunciation: pur-dah-d

Sentence: The purdad hid his daughter from the gaze of the lecherous youths. Shut away in a curtained room, she paled into insignificance.

Etymology: purdah + dad

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COMMENTS:

Good sentence. Kudos for being able to come with two words and only change one letter to blend them! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-23: 16:33:00

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: pii-thon-iiz

Sentence: So sad, she had a father that pythonized her all the time.

Etymology: python+ize

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COMMENTS:

Wow! Emotionally powerful! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-23: 16:42:00

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Created by: diyan627

Pronunciation: angz-i-covet

Sentence: Ben's last anxicovet was enough to swear him off women for a while. Now he just spends his nights online or at the bar and with whomever will hang with him for a while.

Etymology: anxiety + covet

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COMMENTS:

Very Unique! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-23: 16:31:00

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Created by: Niktionary

Pronunciation: ahb-sess-i-fye

Sentence: When my father bought the plasma tv he'd saved for for months, we thought he would obsesify over it; but we never thought he would make us do a background check before Superbowl Sunday to watch it!

Etymology: obsess+objectify+possesses

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COMMENTS:

Interesting choice of words to blend. Clever sentence! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-23: 16:45:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: bow/fik/see/ate

Sentence: Jenny's insecurities and need to totally control and dominate all aspects of his life causes her to beauphyxiate any relationship.

Etymology: beau + asphyxiate

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COMMENTS:

Is she the beaustrangler of Boston? Great ingenuity! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-22: 14:09:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: cat-astra-fixia-fobe

Sentence: Melanie was gasping for breath after her catastrophyxiaphobic father had hidden the keys to the murcielago her husband gave her as a birthday gift.

Etymology: catastrophe + asphyxiate + phobie

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COMMENTS:

Interesting choice of words in your etymology! Innovative Blending! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-23: 16:40:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /SHAP-ur-own/

Sentence: Charlotte had been constantly chaperowned; when she went to the mall on Saturdays, her father insisted on staying with her; when she wanted to go to a school dance, she had to bring her older brother as an escort; and her mother picked her up from school each day and take her straight home. It's no wonder that she snuck out one night, ran away and became a porn star.

Etymology: Chaperon (also chaperone) - someone whose purpose is to ensure propriety or restrict activity (Old French for "hood, head protector"; related to 'chapeau' "hat") + Own - [in the sense of] to have complete control over (Middle English, agan "to have")

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COMMENTS:

Good one, Tigger...is that different from chaperleasing or chaperrenting? - Nosila, 2008-02-22: 02:01:00

Ownerous parents! Brilliant! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-22: 13:08:00

"My mama told me, you better chaperown" — (Shop around; Smokey Robinson and The Miracles). Since Jabberwocky's singing again, there's music in the air... - Tigger, 2008-02-22: 15:22:00

And purpleartichokes and galwaywegian are singing too, I see. - Tigger, 2008-02-22: 15:41:00

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