Verboticisms

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: yoo-yarn

Sentence: Jill contemplated her youyarn which was how she saw her self connected to everything else around her ... like a big skein of yarn.

Etymology: you + yarn

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Created by: ArtistInTraining

Pronunciation: sow -shawl -tahk

Sentence:

Etymology: social - from socail, communicate talk - talk

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: um/bil/i/cal/card

Sentence: All the important deatils of her relationships were stored on her umbilicalcard which she played sometimes to her advantage

Etymology: umbilical cord + card (agenda)

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: cat/ur/pil/r/ees

Sentence: The caterpilaries of her life continued to metamorphose until she became completely tangled up

Etymology: caterpillar + capillary (tiny hairlike tubes that connect arteries to veins)

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COMMENTS:

Ooo yes! Very good. - pinwheel, 2007-04-19: 11:05:00

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: mi-SIL-e-um

Sentence: Sandra thought by shaving her head and moving to Angola, she could escape her mysillium. Silly Sandra immediately fell in with Burta, a member of her karass, who quickly enrolled her in a new smuggling adventure.

Etymology: mycillium, silly

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COMMENTS:

That's the thing! It doesn't matter where you go, you are always stuck with yourself... - wordmeister, 2007-04-19: 10:06:00

yep. and that sticky stuff is... - Alchemist, 2007-04-19: 12:03:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /fənˈdɪbjulə/

Sentence: One's fundibula are not invisible, though we are often disinclined to see them.

Etymology: From Vonnegut's chrono-synclastic infundibulum. The way I see it, the place where everyone's personal fundibula meet is a chrono-synclastic infundibulum.

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COMMENTS:

I was very close to selecting the word "fundilia" without reference to Vonnegut, but then I realized how close it was to infundibulum that I couldn't not steal it. Incidentally, I'll be very disappointed if tomorrow's definition is not "those places where all the different kinds of truths fit together." - ErWenn, 2007-04-19: 08:04:00

I'm hoping that tomorrow's definition will be "a proud and meaningless association of human beings". Nice word by the way... - wordmeister, 2007-04-19: 10:12:00

Thank you. - ErWenn, 2007-04-19: 16:00:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: tao-pess-tree

Sentence: on his deathbed he looked back on his rich taopestry and was pleased with what he saw

Etymology: tao [the way or the path] tapestry

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COMMENTS:

very taotful - galwaywegian, 2007-04-19: 05:53:00

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Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: Hue-man-ah-may-trix

Sentence: We are all part of a vast, living, breathing humanamatrix.

Etymology: Humanity + matrix

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: em pat ressss ez

Sentence: her empatresses bound her loves and life to her, plaited together like the vines around an amazonian hardwood.

Etymology: empathy, tresses

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Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: si-noo-ka

Sentence: Dr. Hoenikker himself was no doubt a member of my karass, though he was dead before my sinookas, the tendrils of my life, began to tangle with those of his children.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.

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