Verboticisms

Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: de-măn'ə-fĕ-stā'shən

Sentence: Today was the 1 year Anniversary of Polly's demanifestation. This time last year, her Groom to be decided that a last minute sky-dive over the bayou was a good idea. Needless to say, the Gator won. At least she had new croc-pumps to remember her poor Jack with.

Etymology: "De" (absent,seperate) + Man (male humanoid) + "manifestation" (An indication of the existence, reality, or presence of something)

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: frag plus point

Sentence: When the ship of dark shadows finally caught her she simply knew that she reached the fragpoint where all her dreams were BFG9000t to pieces...

Etymology: .Frag. from fragmentation, fragmented aka blasted to pieces plus .Breakpoint. the worst case for a point of no return ||| together FRAGPOINT. After that you feel SOULFRAGGED.

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: DEV-a-start-shun

Sentence: When I found that the turkey had burned to total blackness - that was when the devastartion sank in... out I went to buy a new turkey.

Etymology: A play on the word DEVESTATION - only with the word 'START' replacing the STAT in the middle to reference starting over.

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: blun-der-struk

Sentence: Right as he was about to complete his assignment, he became horribly blunderstruck

Etymology: blunder, thunderstruck

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: DUH-pif-anee

Sentence: Rodger had worked on his presentation for weeks. Everything hinged on his ability to explain his radical new concept to the executive committee. The fact that he was in a room full of knodding heads didn't prepare Rodger for the duhpiphany moment that was heading towards him at break-neck speed. One properly-placed stupid question was about to send him back to square one.

Etymology: Duh: (as in DUH!) combined with epiphany: (a moment of sudden revelation or insight)

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /kəˌlæpˈsɪfəni/

Sentence: As the hard drive made a grinding noise and the faint but unmistakable smell of an electrical fire began emanating from the case, I suffered a collapsiphany.

Etymology: From collapse + epiphany

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Created by: whipspeak

Pronunciation: i-poof-uh-nee

Sentence: And in that moment, in a sudden epoofany, Kim acknowledged that Don preferred men.

Etymology: epiphany: a sudden intuitive perception or realization + poof!: used to express or indicate a sudden disappearance

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COMMENTS:

poof positive - Nosila, 2009-12-03: 01:39:00

wonderfully clever - mweinmann, 2009-12-03: 08:50:00

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Created by: kensiesfate

Pronunciation: Ping-ty-tis

Sentence: a pingitus just hit me, I have to go, I am going to have to start over.

Etymology:

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: en-BLI-ten-ment

Sentence: The note from her fiancé saying "I'm so sorry" led to Fiona's enblightenment - two hours before her wedding was to go ahead.

Etymology: enlightenment (state of understanding) + blight (plague or curse)

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Created by: heartnsoul

Pronunciation: brick/face/WALL/o

Sentence: "She was reviewing her PowerPoint presentation for tomorrow's meeting when it hit her like a ton of bricks. In that brickfaswallow moment she saw her assistant had used outdated statistics in a critical section of their research."

Etymology: brick-wall + face + wallow = "it's time to swallow"

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