Verboticisms

Created by: JoePeacock

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The overwhelming monodrome was sweeping across the city: on this one day of the year travelling by car was simply not an option.

Etymology: mono- from the Greek for the number one; -drome from the Greek dromos, meaning running, or race.

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Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: fluk

Sentence: It was great fun to do their jogging in the middle of of the city at rush hour and as a fluck they couldn't be ignored! people slowed down or stopped their cars to let them through.

Etymology: amalgamate of flock and truck

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COMMENTS:

Fluck as in "what the fluck? Get out of the way!!!"? - Discoveria, 2007-03-01: 11:13:00

I'll be using this word to describe a lot of annoying groups of things. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 11:59:00

.. and not just "groups of things". Some of those runners are flucking egopists takeing up half of the road! - w5lf9s, 2007-03-01: 13:21:00

How about the always present fluck of movie-goers ever-so-slowly ambling out of the theater? Makes me want to scream "Fire!" - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 18:30:00

..or that fluck of ants, in single file no less, going in and out of your pantry.. - w5lf9s, 2007-03-01: 19:11:00

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Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: floor/it

Sentence: The group of runners in their little silky shorts ignored the traffic signal. She grinned as she gunned it and said "Yeehaw, a group of floorits!"

Etymology: Floor: Put the pedal to the medal. It

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: jog err nawt

Sentence: He could tell by the flash of dayglo on the horizon and the faraway sound of panting that the joggernaut had hit the outskirts

Etymology: jogger juggernaut

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Created by: Snark

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Created by: mrspadgett

Pronunciation: ig-nor-undle

Sentence: That ignorundle just went through a no walking light!

Etymology: ignorant (uninformed or unaware) + bundle (a collective number of individuals)

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: stom-PEED

Sentence: While trying to cross 5th Avenue I was nearly taken out by a taxi, a bus, and then a stompede of fitness freaks.

Etymology: stomp stomp stomp oh no, there they go!

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COMMENTS:

Simpler than mine...here's my vote! - Discoveria, 2007-03-01: 05:20:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: so shee o path leetz

Sentence: Every Saturday you could see them running through the neighborhood. The 8 of them called themselves The Marrythoners, as they had all met while in marathon training and ended up marrying each other. We however called them the Sociopathletes. When they set out each weekend, they travelled as one and ignored traffic rules and basic mores of society. They thought they were Kings of the Road but we thought they were Things Needing Towed. They set race relations way back...

Etymology: Sociopath (someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') & Social (a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity;marked by friendly companionship with others) & Athletes (a person trained to compete in sports)

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COMMENTS:

If everyone were a sociopath what would normal be? - artr, 2009-09-21: 11:29:00

nice:) - galwaywegian, 2009-09-21: 14:30:00

hehe, like it... - mweinmann, 2009-09-23: 08:57:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: shu/klux/klan

Sentence: After dark, on a rain slicked road the shoekluxklan, reflective stripes glowing eerily, thundered past, eyes forward, a single goal in mind - burning calories

Etymology: shoe +Ku Klux Klan

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COMMENTS:

scary but funny - porsche, 2007-03-01: 10:59:00

Best word of the day! Funny and pokes fun at runners and racers and racists - multi-layered humour. Now what's a good word for multi-layered intelligent humour? How about 'bantier'? - Stevenson0, 2007-03-01: 11:47:00

how about witfulness? - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-01: 13:26:00

Whimsiwhizwit. Naw, looks Russian. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 14:05:00

looks like you might get snowed in again purple - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-01: 16:16:00

Thanks for the warning Jabber. Looks like freezing rain and a melting of the snow. My sump pump will be getting a good workout. My state's weather motto - we put the "vain" in Pennsylvainia. (My spelling, of course.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 18:27:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: stamp-hurd

Sentence: The concrete was supposed to last for years but it is no match for the stampherd. Their daily footfalls have caused the city to replace crumbled sidewalk several times in the past few years.

Etymology: stamp (to bring the foot down forcibly or smartly on the ground, floor, etc) + stampede (a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses) + herd (a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock)

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