Verboticisms

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree kehrring

Sentence: these hangovers were a recerring problem

Etymology: recurring erring

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Created by: Trystera

Pronunciation: air-IN-ee-ull or ur-IN-ee-ul

Sentence: Duane errennially spent his weekly pay on lottery tickets.

Etymology: Err + perennial

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COMMENTS:

Ok, so it's neither of the suggested parts of speech. I like it anyway. - Trystera, 2007-06-07: 17:56:00

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Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: day-zsha-dum

Sentence: It's dumb to hammer your thumb but when you do it again and again, it's dejadum.

Etymology: déjàvu + dumb

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Created by: hatman003

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Henry! thats the third time you didn't lock the airplane door are you just making a frodulerg?

Etymology:

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Created by: Katoch

Pronunciation: com-PID-iocy

Sentence: With the police edging towards him and his friends, the pre-teen downed the alcohol as an act of compidiocy to hide the evidence.

Etymology: compulsive: Compelling: Enforces a need to take urgent action, usually an irational one. idiocy: Stupidity: Willful ignorance or unintelligence. Inacted together to form the somewhat cringeworthy yet humourous act of compidiocy.

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COMMENTS:

Cringeworthy ! Hahahahaha ! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-31: 00:44:00

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: Miss pete

Sentence: He mispeat the misspelled word.

Etymology: mis - wrong peat - tail end of repeat

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Created by: gdread

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Alice trails the handsome, tattooed stranger, blithely ignoring her unfortunate tendency toward romantic redundergoofs.

Etymology: redundant + goof (both in the sense of "error" and the slang epithet for "stupid person")

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Created by: ekath

Pronunciation: re-dumb-dan-cy

Sentence: Sharon just broke up with another one of those scumbag boyfriends of hers. Ya know I think she needs to address her redumbdancy issues before she goes on the wanted list of the Scumbag Association of America.

Etymology: from redundancy + dumb

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: ree-dum'-duntz

Sentence: Donna was in a good mood - she had just hooked up with a new boyfriend. She'd been visiting her last boyfriend, in prison, when she'd met Spike, just being released on parole. But when Donna called sister to tell her about Spike, her sister said it was another act of 'redumbdunce.' Her last ten boyfriends had all been convicts and criminals.

Etymology: A combination of the words; Redundance (repetition of the same meaning, but using different words), Dumb (lacking in common sense) and Dunce (a person who is stupid or slow to learn)

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COMMENTS:

Happy New Year everyone! - Tigger, 2009-12-31: 01:40:00

And Happy New Year to you! Alas, poor Donna is a creature of conviction! - Nosila, 2009-12-31: 11:01:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: reh-PET-eh-gaf

Sentence: Being intensely dense, Leonardo quite frequently would ignore the fact that he'd made a silly mistake and would repetigaffe again and again.

Etymology: Blend of 'repetition' (n. the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated) and 'gaffe' (n. a noticeable mistake)

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