Verboticisms

Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation: Herd-Jog

Sentence: That herdjog almost got run over by a tractor trailer.

Etymology: Herd + Jog

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: egotrippers

Sentence: they are a bunch of egotrippers

Etymology: ego and tripping as in beeing totally in yourselve.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: antīhōlistikmisəl

Sentence: The group of runners move in perfect unison, step for step as they careen toward the finish line, not thinking or caring about the condition of any of their members. Like an antiholisticmissle they streak across the landscape incurring blisters, cramps, dehydration and near stroke conditions, jettisoning weaker runners like spent fuel, all to show how healthy they are.

Etymology: anti (opposed to; against) + holistic (characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole) + missle (a weapon that is self-propelled) A play on anti-ballistic missle

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COMMENTS:

What are they running from?? - Nosila, 2009-09-21: 12:29:00

SCUDs - artr, 2009-09-21: 17:51:00

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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: 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: magenta

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Swarmenemies are my sworn enemies when I'm trying to drive to work

Etymology:

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Created by: kateh

Pronunciation: dem-uhl-crash-ik

Sentence: One of these days I'm going to run over one of the members of this demolcrashic that runs down this street every Saturday morning when they are taking over the road.

Etymology: demolish (to ruin or destroy) + demographic (the statistical data of a population) + crash (to collide, especially violently and noisily)

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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: 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: 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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