Verboticisms

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: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: dub-uhl-klik

Sentence: Paul innocently double-clicked that he liked cheese whiz on the webpage, when suddenly he was inundated with emails and IMs from his newfound doubleclique! Cheese Whiz party this weekend!! BYOC (crackers)

Etymology: Double-click and clique

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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: 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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mesh/er/gy

Sentence: When I walk into a classroom full of students, the obvious meshergy that is taking place because of their interweaving thoughts, ideas and backgrounds, makes me feel that their school day may be worth while afterall.

Etymology: mesh + energy

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COMMENTS:

Good meshage! - wordmeister, 2007-04-19: 09:59:00

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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: ArtistInTraining

Pronunciation: sow -shawl -tahk

Sentence:

Etymology: social - from socail, communicate talk - talk

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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: AnnieChandon

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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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