Verboticisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: shu/klux/klan

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

Etymology: shoe + Ku Klux Klan

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Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: hey-suhn-hohrd

Sentence: A hastenhorde is as real a danger in urban areas as a herd of startled wildebeest is on the Serengeti.

Etymology: simple compound of "hasten" meaning "hurry" and "horde" meaning "a moving pack or swarm of animals"

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Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: zown-croud

Sentence: Rachel was locked in a zonecrowd of runners toward the end of the marathon.

Etymology: zone, crowd

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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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: jedijawa

Pronunciation: ped-oh-tawn

Sentence: The marathoners ran in a pedoton which moved like a phalanx through the streets and traffic of the city.

Etymology: ped (foot) + peloton (cycilng pack)

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COMMENTS:

This is a very good word which I think runners will like... even they do roll over a few of the slower moving peds. - wordmeister, 2007-03-01: 00:15:00

Yes, I thought peloton would be good too, but liked the image of the way amoeba move. - petaj, 2007-03-01: 04:57:00

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