Verboticisms

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: 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: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: KITH-beems

Sentence: Kithbeams sometimes radiant; at other times frowning, chilled by the clouds of doubt and the bitter winds of mistrust; but like the sun affecting our lives every second.

Etymology: Kith, n. [OE.& AS. kith,] native land; friends, acquaintances; kindred. Meaning 1. & 4. archaic. BEAM:n. [ME. OE?]:A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. (Fig.): A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.

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COMMENTS:

how poetic - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-26: 10:58:00

Hugths & Kithes! - Nosila, 2008-06-26: 23:27:00

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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)

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COMMENTS:

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

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: so-sir-tchu-al-i-ty

Sentence: Jenna networked with her friends so much that she developed her very own socirtuality where everthing revolved around her and what she thought and felt. She communicated constantly with her bffs and developed a relationship with a really cute boyfriend -- at least his avatar was cute and he sounded really cute in his texts. She was so busy with her MySpace page, her Facebook page, her tweets and her second life that she forgot about her first life and real relationships. It got so bad that her family had to text her when her grandmother died.

Etymology: society: totality of social relationships among humans + virtual: existing in essence, but not in it's actual form + reality: the quality or state of be actual or true

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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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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: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: WEEV-ehn-ness

Sentence: When his girlfriend slipped out of Alex's weavenness, it was as if he fell through a hole in a hammock.

Etymology: weave + evenness : The weave that keeps you even.

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: stimu like in stimulate, rounding like in surrounding.

Sentence: Your experience is cheavily spinfluenced by your stimurounding. The stimurounding was bad for her, i had to get her out of this city quickly...

Etymology: stimulous + surrounding = stimurounding.

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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

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COMMENTS:

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

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