Verboticisms

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: Ez-zE-strI-ders

Sentence: David and his gang of easystriders set out to accomplish the runners high, stopping at nothing, and stomping anything in their path.

Etymology: easy rider/ stride, a runners motion

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COMMENTS:

Good one Toad! They are kinda like those bike gangs. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 08:38:00

very good word toadstool57 - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-01: 13:50:00

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Created by: Filthy

Pronunciation: /SKTLPK/

Sentence: The scuttlepack of joggers training for the upcoming mini-marathon clogged the streets downtown, causing me to be late to work.

Etymology: Scuttle + pack Scuttle conveys both the movement of the runners and the destruction they wreak through their pack-like running style.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: jog gur naught

Sentence: The joggernaut ran over two miles, four hundred metres and three buggies.

Etymology: juggernaut, jogger

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COMMENTS:

I need to find a joggernaut stompede to help me deal with my woeful caloregret. Darn Girl Scouts! (you got my vote!) - Alchemist, 2007-03-01: 07:47:00

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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: mweinmann

Pronunciation: street - fleet

Sentence: The Mount Prospect runners group had become a streetfleet. There were now 25 of them running togehter and darting in and out of traffic.... They were fast, but they were dangerous.

Etymology: street, fleet (moving very fast; "fleet of foot,A group of vessels or vehicles)

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COMMENTS:

good one - galwaywegian, 2009-09-21: 14:31:00

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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