Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fy ber op tim izim

Sentence: Zoe decided that her destiny rested on the fiberoptimisim of those around her...where she fit into the great skein of things. Spun like the rich tapestry of her life, many people stood out like like gold and silver threads...sew rich in character, shining examples, sterling in their influence and adding value and sparkle to the lives of others. Others were more basic and filled in the background and sketched the pattern, woven with little flair, but constancy and predictability and a good yarn from time to time. Then, of course, there were others, like Uncle George, who became unravelled or frayed if he got needled and always needed to be mended and kept in stitches. Oh yes, Zoe decided, I am going to hoop it up, because if you didn't give a darn,it could be a crewel world out there!

Etymology: fiber (the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions) & optimisim (a general disposition to expect the best in all things;the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well) & fiber optics (the transmission of light signals via glass fibers)

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COMMENTS:

Excellent word - TJayzz, 2008-06-26: 06:40:00

A fiberopticism....I like it. - Mustang, 2008-06-26: 08:10:00

nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-26: 10:56:00

Terrific word and sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-27: 17:57:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: vill aj peep hole

Sentence: In our little town many years ago, no one had a telephone except for the drugstore at the bottom of the street. The pharmacist was next to the butcher's shop. Long ago, some clever person decided to drill a peephole in the side wall between the two shops. The butcher had a packle of kids and the family lived above the shop. Whenever a call came in for someone up the street, the pharmacist would yell through the hole who the call was for and the butcher would dispatch one of the brood to go get the recipient. This social network system was called the villagepeephole and was used constantly, until the day that phones became more affordable to the town's people. Eventually the shops were knocked down in the name of progress and to divert the youth of the town, a recreation centre was built and you guessed it, the villagepeephole gave birth to the Y.M.C.A.!"Young man, there's a place you go..."

Etymology: Village (little town) & Peephole (hole cut in something to peek through;spyhole) & Wordplay on Village People

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COMMENTS:

heehee! - galwaywegian, 2011-03-25: 04:57:00

The funniest part is that is a true story... - Nosila, 2011-03-25: 22:48:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SO-shyl-ite

Sentence: Elsie believed her circle of friends to be the socialight of the times, a useful network wherein all matters relating to everyday life could be resolved or heightened.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'social' and 'light', play on the word 'socialite'.

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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: 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: emmyb2

Pronunciation: in-ter-cre-cents

Sentence: When I went to college, I was amazed at the intercrescents in my life; all my courses seemed connected!

Etymology: inter - between cresc- growing

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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: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Brain-Drills

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

Etymology: Brain; Tendrils

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Created by: patb

Pronunciation: twit-ter-fAs

Sentence: Michael used his skills at twitterphacing to find the lowest cost viagra clone on the internet. It was great! But unfortunately he didn't have any real friends.

Etymology: twit, twitter, facebook, interface

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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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