Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: miss/ee/vee/us

Sentence: To be missiveous is to play havoc with post-it notes

Etymology: mischievous + missive

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: post-PROWN-ment

Sentence: Bob told his "shrink" to stick it, when he suggested that the solution to his postpronement was to say seven times over: "Sensible scientist Spencer Silver so serendiptious special simple solution "stick-it" stuck."

Etymology: Post (as in Post-it"), prone (apt, liable to, inclined to), -ment (an act or process) To postprone v.intr

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COMMENTS:

There should be a sentence award. It would be all yours today. Great! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-24: 09:29:00

simply splendid - you get my vote - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-24: 15:55:00

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: note-pad-AN-tic

Sentence: Phillip was so notepadantic that he placed post-its on his lunch box to remind himself to eat.

Etymology: notepad + pedantic (to be obsessive about minutia or details)

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COMMENTS:

sorry I missed this - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-25: 13:33:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: noh/tuh/veyt

Sentence: Jenny's yellow stickies posted everywhere keep her notivated and on track to accomplish every deed and detail of the day and of her life.

Etymology: NOTIVATE - verb - from NOTE (something written down to assist the memory) + MOTIVATE (To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel)

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COMMENTS:

Thanks. Now I'm NOTIVATED to go out and buy a ream of them. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-25: 08:36:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: stikēdik sh ən

Sentence: Brenda has a serious stickyddiction. Whatever inane little thought pops into her addlepated mind gets jotted down on a Post-it and stuck to the fridge. There are so many now that there is no surface of the ice box visible. Brenda doesn*t know how many layers deep they go but last week the weight of these little papers sheered off the hinge of the refrigerator door. After a short panic attack and a few deep breaths Brenda duct taped the door back in place and has taken to eating only dry cereal and stuff out of her freezer. Her friends are considering an intervention.

Etymology: sticky note (a piece of stationery with a re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back, designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents and to other surfaces: walls, desks) + addiction (the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity)

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈnoʊtstʌk/

Sentence: There's only one way to cure someone who is completely note-stuck. If you steal the sticky note that's supposed to remind them to buy more sticky notes, then when they run out, they'll never remember to buy more and be forced to face reality.

Etymology: One who sticks to sticky notes is stuck to them, and thus "note-stuck."

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: poe sti cheee

Sentence: She was so postitchy, the company auditors found out her stationery bill exceeded her salary. They sent her a short (yellow) memo.

Etymology: post it. itchy as in trigger happy but without the trigger or the happiness.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: post it too shun

Sentence: We knew Sue's compulsion to plaster her home with sticky notes to aid her poor memory had gone too far. Clawing their way through the rainbow of squares, the health inspectors condemned her home and slapped her with a charge of postitution. Note to self, Sue, consider this an intervention for your 3M addiction.

Etymology: Post-It (brand of sticky notes) & WordPlay on Prostitution (offering sex for pay)

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COMMENTS:

SENSATIONAL - DrWebsterIII, 2012-10-25: 12:54:00

You nailed it! - hyperborean, 2012-10-25: 12:57:00

No, they're sticky so you don't need nails. - Rhyme79, 2012-10-25: 14:41:00

ha ha ha Rhyme - DrWebsterIII, 2012-10-25: 15:53:00

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Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: spa-stik-ee

Sentence: What began as simple postitillation during the early phase of her project, mushroomed to despostism as she became increasingly fanoteical the closer she got to her deadline. On the eve before her presentation, she went completely spasticky and was found the next morning cocooned in her cubicle, and mummified by her own gluey to do lists. She was diagnosed with minor paper cuts and Post-It Traumatic Stress Disorder and sent home to recuperate. The moral: Visual organizers can be good, but beware, my fellow verbotomists, it's a slippery slope...or in this case, a sticky one.

Etymology: spastic + sticky note

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COMMENTS:

Great word. Great sentence! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-24: 09:32:00

I'm stuck on it: great word & love the sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-24: 18:46:00

Stick ‘Em Up - the spasticky's mantra - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-25: 06:00:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kum - pulse - stik

Sentence: Jeremy was positively compulstick about writing down all of his tasks, thoughts, goals and thoughts on all sizes and colors of sticky notes.

Etymology: compulsive (someone who cannot stop repeating an action over and over) + stick (as in sticky notes)

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