Verboticisms

Created by: bunnyhm

Pronunciation: poppy-bee-buz

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Etymology: something too mainstream or like pop song is stuck like a bee buzzing inside of your head

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Created by: jpmikkers

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Etymology: music stuck

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: en-sink-KRON-uh-kyood

Sentence: It started in the shower, went through breakfast, all through rush hour, into the office, and well past lunch before Lance began to notice he was so Nsynchronicued that he was wearing two different shoes, a Kerokerokeroppi tie, his suit coat was inside out, and that singing "Hit Me Baby One More Time" in the men's room was drawing mixed interest from onlookers.

Etymology: N'Sync (boy band) + chronic + cued (ready to play, as in a record or CD)

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Created by: mythman

Pronunciation: SPEER-zish-ness

Sentence: In a fit of spearzishness, she offered herself to every breathing person there.

Etymology: Britney Spears, who didn't allow her mental capacity to evolve past high-school, gave us a perfect example of the spearzishness of unattended children.

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Created by: Boronia

Pronunciation: pop'-hi-merz

Sentence: Unlike Alzheimer's Disease, which is more prevalent in people over 65 years old, Popheimer's afflicts the younger set. It is brought on by a steady feeding of pop songs throughout one's day, with entertainment as the goal. In its advanced stages, victims lose the ability even to remember the redundant songs, so they provide an endless stream of them via ear buds and i-pods. In this way, they are able to avoid the realization that nothing of import moves through their grey matter anymore.

Etymology: pop music + Alzheimer's

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: mu-si-eck-O-sis

Sentence: Bob didn't feel well and being a great believer in an alternative healer, named Gleestruck, went to see him. Gleestruck suggested that Bob listen, at least 111 times, to the pop melodyssey, "Macarthur Park". When he returned (or retuned) a few days later the healer asked him, "How are you?" Bob replied, "The song has ended, but the malady lingers on." A few days later,when the annoying pop song would not stop endlessly repeating itself in his mind; Bob, although not wishing to appear a melingerer, sought treatment at his local hospital, where a doctor told him he was suffering from musiechosis or, as it is commonly known, popmentiplay.

Etymology: Musiechosis:musi/c+ech/o+osis:condition Gleestruck-glee(OE)music+struck:smitten Melingerer-mel/ody+ ma/lingerer. Popmentiplay-pop(song)+ment:(mind)+play

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: BUHB-buhl-duhm

Sentence: Alex began to wonder if his romantic failings were the result of a piece of bubbledumb lodged in his head since 1987.

Etymology: bubble-gum (pop music) + dumb

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: breyn-fart-pop

Sentence: She laid awake with the "Popcorn" song from her childhood repeating ad nauseum in her head, which was at least moderatley tolerable. Her boyfriend suffered from brainfartpop too, last week he was dealing with Falco's "Der Kommissar".

Etymology: brain fart (moment of dementia) + pop (as in pop music)

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Created by: sweetclarity

Pronunciation: In-com-pop-tence.

Sentence: They threatened to fire her for incompoptence when she spent her whole workday humming 'Oops, I Did It Again!' instead of answering the phone.

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Created by: scorpio6000

Pronunciation: dōō-rän'dōō-rän'm-nee'-zhuh

Sentence: Standing in line at the Wal-Mart pharmacy, he was overcome with duranduranmnesia after being subjected to thirty-seven minutes of piped-in instrumental pop.

Etymology: n. [English, from Duran Duran, British New Wave musical group, from American English, “Dr. Durand Durand" character in science-fiction film Barbarella; + -mnesia n combining form –s (NL, fr. Amnesia): a (specified) type or condition of memory. Unrelat

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