Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: A state of reduced mental capacity, caused by an inability to think of anything but an annoying pop song, which seems to be endlessly repeating itself in your mind.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Nsynchronicued
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)
Stupiditty
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: stew pid ittee
Sentence: she was pretty such a pity 'bout the ditty induced stupiditty
Etymology: stupidity, ditty.
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Good lyricling. You get my vote. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-18: 18:03:00
----------------------------
Bubbledumb
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
Musiechosis
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
Popsession
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: pahp-seshen
Sentence: I want to drive a spike through my head as the ridiculous Fergie song has become my latest popsession.
Etymology: pop and obsission. could take on other forms: popsessive, popsessive state, popsessive compulsive, popsessing...
Popheimers
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
Tunestruck
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: toon-struk
Sentence: Purpleartichokes got tunestruck when the Meatloaf tune "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" literally did just that.
Etymology: moonstruck, tune
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Yep, that's the current song that has me dittywitted. - purpleartichokes, 2007-08-17: 06:47:00
Poor you...got my sympathy vote! - remistram, 2007-08-17: 09:22:00
I'm being tunestruck at this moment by that terrible tune by Kylie Minogue," I Can't Get You Out Of My Head". Great word- you get my vote. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-17: 19:22:00
----------------------------
Brainstopper
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I cannot get this damn brainstopper out of my head
Etymology:
Duranduranmnesia
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
Dittyditzy
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: dit-E-ditz-E
Sentence: In a strange twist of events, Marcia became the top salesperson of the month at the Hummer dealership. Each time she would be with a customer and start to say "Hummer," she would break into a rendition of the Black Eyed Peas "My Humps," much to the delight of her mostly male customer base.
Etymology: dittty (song) + ditzy (scatterbrained)
