Verboticisms

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: wash-warp

Sentence: Water conservation officials consider washwarps one of their biggest threats, whereas some haircare manufactures have cited an almost 50% increase in sales due to this phenomenon alone.

Etymology: wash + timewarp

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Created by: IneffableDawn

Pronunciation: con-dish-on-eez-ee-ya

Sentence: She had just shampooed and conditioned her hair, but forgot that she did in an extreme bout of conditionesia.

Etymology: Condition (derived from 'conditioner') Esia (from 'amnesia')

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: hygiene-ATE-us

Sentence: Harry had shut off the water and brushed his teeth before he realised that a higienatus had occurred and he was still head to toe in lather.

Etymology: hygiene + hiatus

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COMMENTS:

One thing you can say about Harry: he is a clean eater! Good blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-16: 18:38:00

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Created by: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I do not understand why thes unpowernaps occur whenever there is something I need to remember

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Created by: kingofthespill

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COMMENTS:

That's what some people drink that results in brain damage. - petaj, 2007-08-17: 02:48:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: kog-jam

Sentence: Bob often stayed far too long in the shower. And when he did cogjam set in and instantly he travelled, in his imagination, to Lapland and thought that he was Santa Claus. In reality his split-second cerebral sojourns, were nothing more than mental minyips, where this confused chronoclot didn't know the difference between shaving cream and shampoo.

Etymology: Cogjam: based on "logjam". Blend of "cog"(cognizance:awareness)+jam:(become stuck); Minyip:blend of "min"(imum)& "yip": hitch. Chronoclot:"chrono"& clot(blockage or fool)

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COMMENTS:

Eating a clock often causes time blockage. - Kyoti, 2007-08-16: 10:06:00

You've got to watch out for that. Got any gear to clear such a blockage? Maybe some figjam will do it. - petaj, 2007-08-17: 02:59:00

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Created by: Metalflower

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Sentence: When Gina was having the most fun at the party, she went pale, because she simply couldn't remember, if she hed fed the fish. The mindgap cruelly set in again!

Etymology: mind, gap

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COMMENTS:

Gina mindgap was cruel: the life of a fish is ova before it begins. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-16: 18:35:00

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: dis-kuhn-teg-ruh-NAY-shun

Sentence: Marissa had just lathered and rinsed, but not repeated, when she felt as if she'd been sucked through a wormhole, which destabilized her shower routine and left her with a pronounced feeling of discontegrination.

Etymology: Disconnection (as in "off the hook") + Tegrin (medicated shampoo that causes tingly sensations) + disintegration (like soap bubbles bursting under a jet of water)

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like she had a cosmic shower. - petaj, 2007-08-16: 03:55:00

Seems that Marissa found out that taking a shower is a lot like life: one wrong turn and you find yourself in "hot" water! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-16: 18:18:00

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Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: sham + fyoog

Sentence: Darlene noticed that people at work were looking at her funny all morning, but it wasn't until she visited the ladies room after her third cup of coffee that she figured out why. Apparently she had suffered a shamfugue during her morning shower and forgotten to rinse. Her hair had dried into the tufty mohawk she usually sculpted in lather. The instant she looked in the mirror, her head began to itch unbearably.

Etymology: shampoo + fugue (a period during which a person suffers from loss of memory and upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase)

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Created by: scorpio6000

Pronunciation: [koh'-muh koh'-muh la'-voh

Sentence: My hair does not look greasy! Can I help it if there was a comacomalavo three mornings in a row?

Etymology: n. [L. "coma," lethargic state; + L. "coma," hair; + L. "lavo," wash or clense.

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