Verboticisms

Created by: alybliss

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Sentence: Henry had every intention of carrying out his changeaname scam, as he knew his high maintainance wife would not approve of a primark bed spread

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Do you think his wife will discover Henry's alias when she busts his changeaname scam? Interesting! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-03: 22:48:00

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Created by: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Eego-frip-per-ree

Sentence: The old forms of Macaroniism, Foppery, Self-promotion, Beggar thy neighbour, One-upmanship and Self-aggrandising house names, have now been superceded by the use of falsified consumer goods and status products in a blatent case of Egofrippery.

Etymology: Ego- I'm better than You! / Frippery - Empty or meaningless showing -off.

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COMMENTS:

Strong word choices ... Strong creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-03: 09:18:00

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Created by: TCalhoun

Pronunciation: Ver to sanc ta no min

Sentence: Despite the man's blatent vertosanctanomin, people thought he had rich tastes, but he really had just spraypainted a wheelbarrow.

Etymology: Vert- (turn) Sanct- (holy) -Nomin (name)

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Created by: BIANCAGRAY1

Pronunciation: ad-come-bus

Sentence: You are adcumbous.

Etymology: ad-to cumb-to lie ous

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Created by: hyperborean

Pronunciation: plā' bul

Sentence: Paul knew he would have to playbel the necklace into the distinctive blue box because "Breakfast at Walgreens" just didn't sound right.

Etymology: PLAY, to pretend to be: play cowboys + (LA)BEL

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Created by: 584642

Pronunciation: sub- leb-ing

Sentence: He was clearly sublabing when he tried to sell the knock off subaru when it was clearly of phillipian brand.

Etymology: sub- below lab- to take, sieze ing- the act of

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Created by: 711235

Pronunciation: sued-so-mat

Sentence: The man bought his pseudsomat car in another country

Etymology: Pseud - fake Somat - body

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: crap/sim/i/lee

Sentence: Most products from that particular country are a crapsimile of the original product.

Etymology: crap + facsimile

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COMMENTS:

Very good! - Mustang, 2008-03-03: 18:44:00

This one put a 'simile' on my face when I read it. Nice! - Tigger, 2008-03-03: 21:54:00

Great sentence! Great word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-03: 22:38:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree low gow ay ted

Sentence: His relogoated hyundai coupe with the dancing horse on the bonnet drew lots of attention, but for all the wrong reasons.

Etymology: relocate, logo

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COMMENTS:

Choice words, logistical blending! Very nice word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-03: 08:52:00

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-03: 12:17:00

Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-03: 18:34:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: lam bowr wee neee

Sentence: he put hios foot down and it immediately became obvious that the only horses under the hood of his lamborweenie were on the way to the knackers yard

Etymology: lamborghini, weenie

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COMMENTS:

Jolly good word! - silveryaspen, 2008-12-26: 10:17:00

It's a weener! - Nosila, 2008-12-26: 18:50:00

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