Verboticisms

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: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Stam-peed-est-tree-ans

Sentence: Traffic came to a standstill after a collision in which a truck clearly had more momentum than the stampedestrians it bowled over.

Etymology: Stampede + pedestrians. Bit of a near miss, since the definition calls for a collective noun...

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: stam ped o fyls

Sentence: The Stampedophiles were galloping en masse down Fourth Avenue. Their goal was to get to the Calgary Stampede after having watched the Stampeders get trounced by the Eskimos (again). Like the bison who used to roam this area, they trampled everything in their way.

Etymology: Stampede (a headlong rush of people on a common impulse) & Pedo (Greek:of on foot/on soil/about children) & Philes (Greek:attracted to;Loves)

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: Jorg like Borg. [Jogmob was the first and nearly logical association i had with this definition, but bruce-unfortunate-lee i was some weeks late...)

Sentence: "Walking is futile" was the last thing i heard before i joined the Jorg.

Etymology: Jogging Mob + Borg = Jorg.

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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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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: Guthlaf1

Pronunciation: HER-da-THON

Sentence: I was walking my dog this morning when a herdathon ploughed into us - and then were shocked when three of them tripped over the dog-leash!

Etymology: 'herd' - a group of (often-) mindless beasts '-thon' - as in 'marathon'

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: jopg gur nawtt

Sentence: The joggernaut appeared large and quite formidable as it came down the road. It was amazing how one small(cranky) pitbull could cause such a massive effect.

Etymology: juggernaut, jog

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COMMENTS:

good word...run with it! - Nosila, 2009-09-21: 12:26:00

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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: aj3131

Pronunciation: Raffic

Sentence: There was a lot of raffic on the street this morning.

Etymology: R(unning)+(Tr)affic

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