Verboticisms

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: so-shuh-bab-ul

Sentence: Mandy's office was often pretty noisy in the mornings, when her colleauges were merrily sociababbling.

Etymology: sociable (enjoying the company of other people) + babble (to talk foolishly, incessantly)

| Comments and Points

Created by: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Brain-Drills

Sentence: You can't see them, but your braindrils connect you to everyone around you

Etymology: Brain; Tendrils

| Comments and Points

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

| Comments and Points

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kon - nekt - werk

Sentence: Polly had her family, friends and then there was her connectwork, HelloYou. Polly found a kinship of people there through threads of common interest. She had 25 friends in FarmerTown that she really didn't even know, except that they all liked to plant crops and harvest them.

Etymology: connect, network

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

connects for me - Nosila, 2009-11-05: 19:51:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

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

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: θəmyoōnəkāshən

Sentence: Joyce*s friends are worried. Ever since she acquired her Blackberry she has stopped talking. Many of her friends haven*t seen her in months. She thumbunicates with them on a regular basis, sometimes dozens of times a day but can*t seem to manage a real world interaction. For all they know she is squirreled up in her mother*s basement with a case of Cheetos and several six packs of Rockstar. An intervention may be in order.

Etymology: thumb (the short, thick first digit of the human hand, set lower and apart from the other four and opposable to them - the primary tool of text messaging) communicate (share or exchange information, news, or ideas)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Thumb's up - Nosila, 2009-11-05: 19:32:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: the/brade/ee bunch

Sentence: Thebraidybunch is a new dating network which selectively chooses people with long hair.

Etymology: braid (weaving together of hair, starnds etc) + the Brady Bunch (popular 70s sitcom)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Good one, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! - Nosila, 2008-06-26: 23:02:00

Clever & funny. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-27: 17:58:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: mesh/ence

Sentence: John was expelled from school simply because his meshence comprised of friends that his parents described as 'bad influences'.

Etymology: Mesh (an interwoven structure) + essence (one's basic character)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

nice -- the mesh is the meshage - wordmeister, 2007-04-19: 09:51:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: christinepucser

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Created by: Trystera

Pronunciation: sole-LAT-tiss

Sentence: After noticing all the subtle strange coincidences, I felt attuned with the great soullatice, the spiritual matrix underlying and fortifying all concrete reality like metaphysical rebar.

Etymology: "Soul" + "Lattice," a framework made of crossed, overlapping strips.

| Comments and Points