Verboticisms

Created by: JoePeacock

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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: erasmus

Pronunciation: her dah ling

Sentence: the team ran so close to each other they were herdaling together.

Etymology: from herding and hurdling

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: trak/pak

Sentence: The trackpack parted the crowd like Moses parting the Red Sea

Etymology: Track + pack

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Created by: rickki

Pronunciation: amaurotang is a mixture of amaurotic which means blindness and gang. said like am-or-o-tang

Sentence: "Gosh look at that amorotang mum!"

Etymology:

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌdʒɑɡˈʃtɑlt/

Sentence: The optimum size of a jogstalt is between four and seven runners. Larger groups tend to stretch and then splinter unless the sidewalk is very wide, and runners in smaller groups retain too much independence.

Etymology: From jog + gestalt

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COMMENTS:

Too obscure, perhaps? - ErWenn, 2007-03-01: 01:28:00

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Created by: iwasatripwire

Pronunciation: jog-lahm-er-ut

Sentence: The joglomerate was heading straight for us, and we ducked into an alley just in time.

Etymology: jog+conglomerate

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COMMENTS:

Well done. Lot's of stiff competition this time. - ErWenn, 2007-03-02: 09:00:00

I can spell "lots" properly. I must've been distracted by a passing joglomerate or something. - ErWenn, 2007-03-02: 09:02:00

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Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The cross-country runners quickly formed a group of stampedestrians at the beginning of the race, promptly mowing down a dogwalker, a small child, and a squirrel that was in their path.

Etymology: stampede + pedestrians

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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: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: jog/hogs

Sentence: As the joghogs approached the intersection, three cars rear-ended one another, two LOLs out for a leisurely stroll shook their index fingers, and one burly basset hound without a leash waddled along after them.

Etymology: jog + hogs

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: a-MEEB-dash

Sentence: The frantic crowd panicked, breaking into a run to form an amoebdash. From the helicopter above it looked like a giant amoeba oozing through the city streets taking traffic and pedestrians in its path.

Etymology: amoeba (a single cell organism characterised by a jelly-like mass of cytoplasm that forms temporary extensions) + mob (crowd) + dash (run fast)

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