Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: shrink/orr/age

Sentence: Shrinkorrage is the the painful and sometimes bloody result of the twenty five minute ordeal I go through every time I buy a new CD.

Etymology: shrinkwrap + shrinkage + hemorrhage

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COMMENTS:

ouch!! kinda gross but a great description - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-15: 09:22:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: boōbērap

Sentence: Jerry bought a new video game. It turned out to be a boobywrap. He cut up his fingers so badly getting the package open that he had to wait a week to try out the game.

Etymology: booby-trap (a thing designed to catch the unwary) + wrap (cover or enclose)

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Syk-o-pak-tik

Sentence: After many hours trying to open the new CD he had bought without success. He eventually became so psycopacktic that his wife was left with no choice but to call the doctor, who then decided to sedate him before he got any worse.

Etymology: Psycho(psychotic) + Pack(package) + Tic(a nervous muscle spasm) = Psycopacktic

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Created by: DaddiezGyrl

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I opened it carefully, to avoid getting shrinkcut.

Etymology: Combo of shrink+cut

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: PLAS-teh-slash

Sentence: Just about every time Lucille tried to open any of the newfangled packages sealed in the hard plastic she'd end up with a bloody plastislash, either cutting herself with the knife or lacerating one of her digits on the sharp edges of the plastic itself.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'plastic' and 'slash'.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: shrink/orr/ige

Sentence: Shrinkorrhage is the the painful mental stress and sometimes bloody result of the twenty minute ordeal I go through every time I buy a new CD.

Etymology: SHRINKORRHAGE - noun - from SHRINKWRAP (a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise) + HEMORRHAGE (a profuse discharge of blood; any uncontrolled loss, including sanity, when dealing with shrinkwrapped CD's)

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: PLAS-ti-stun-ed

Sentence: I was desperate to listen to my new CD, but after fifteen minutes of wrestling with the shrink wrap I just sat on the floor plastistunned for a while and stared into space.

Etymology: Plasti (from plastic) + stunned (shocked or knocked out)

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Created by: wordguy120

Pronunciation: De-wraper-tate

Sentence: my fingers where derapertated by that stuff

Etymology:

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: inka - rap - eh - taat

Sentence: Marcy managaed to incawrapitate herself on the "Microsoft Money Matters Most" software container. She messed up her fingernails, cut her hands and mortally wounded her pet monkey when the container went flying across the room.

Etymology: incapacitate (disable), wrap

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COMMENTS:

that's a wrap - Nosila, 2009-11-30: 21:57:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: shrink/orr/age

Sentence: Shrinkorrage is the the painful and sometimes bloody result of the twenty five minute ordeal I go through every time I buy a new CD.

Etymology: Etymology: shrinkwrap + shrinkage + hemorrhage

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