Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: men-sa-twit-a

Sentence: Hearing impaired members of the intelligent society often complain that the mensatwitter at their meetings makes it hard to follow proceedings. But nevertheless they cannot help twittering to themselves as they engage in intellectual exercises.

Etymology: Mensa (qualification for membership of which was a high IQ) + twitter (sound of birds chirping)

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COMMENTS:

Funny! Also sounds like something that "men", rather than women, do. - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 07:48:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sahy-koh-blath-er

Sentence: When Leo gets a tough programming problem he begins to talk to himself and his computer. His psychoblather has been known to send much of the office to an early lunch. Sometimes they will bring him lunch or a large bag of candies just to occupy his mouth for a while.

Etymology: psycho (mentally strange) + blather (chatter, talk a lot)

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Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: MIN-ee-think

Sentence: "And then if Mario jumps over this barrel," Jim minniethought, "he should be able to reach the magic pill ..."

Etymology: Minnie, as in Mouse, + think

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Created by: Carla

Pronunciation: con-tem-plah-lah-late

Sentence: Fed up with his children's complaints whenever he indulged in noisy cogitation, he installed sound-proofing insulation in his study. At last, he could contemplalalate as much as he tralaliked.

Etymology: contemplate + 'la la la'

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: men tahl jim nas teeks

Sentence: They were not ordinary eeks. they were mentalgymnasteeks, but unfortunately the examiner had no sense of perspective.

Etymology: mental gymnastics, eek

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: scat-tic-u-late

Sentence: Jan could tell by the grinding and squeaking noises coming from the study that Paul had begun to scaticulate about the budget.

Etymology: scat: in jazz-- a vocal style where the singer shows vocal dexterity by improvising a melody over the chords or rhythm using sounds or meaningless syllables a la Bobby McFerrin, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway or Popeye + tic: involuntary movements or vocalizations (often seen in persons with tourette syndrome) + speculate: to meditate or reflect on a subject

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COMMENTS:

scategorically good word! - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:56:00

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: skwing-king

Sentence: At work, Frank had a lovely time. Nobody would give him anything to do, because no one could stand his squinking!

Etymology: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ squeek - sound of a mouse. ++++++++++ ++++++ thinking - to constructively use ones brain +++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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COMMENTS:

Leader of the squins! - Alchemist, 2007-01-25: 02:44:00

You beat me to it. Good word, IMHO. - petaj, 2007-01-24: 04:32:00

I love the sound of this one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-24: 13:37:00

Yeah, "squink" sounds funny... perfect! - wordmeister, 2007-01-24: 14:52:00

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: skwink

Sentence: I heard squinking in the room. My roommate is doing his homework for AP Home Economics.

Etymology: squeak + think

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: roōmənoiz

Sentence: Roy isn’t normally one to ponder deep subjects very often. When he does the ruminoise can be deafening.

Etymology: ruminate (think deeply about something) + noise (a sound, esp. one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: smart - ee - kants

Sentence: When Edward Eisen started thinking, we heard the unique and often soprano pitched sounds of his smartycants emerging from the quiet of the classroom, library or whatever room he happened to be using for his study.

Etymology: smarty, cants (musical singing sounds,the jargon of a particular class or subgroup), play on "smarty pants)

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COMMENTS:

Tee hee! Bravo Cantore! - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-24: 07:46:00

cants for the memories... - Nosila, 2009-08-24: 20:57:00

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