Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: der mok ra see

Sentence: Chris sunbathed too hard and always ended up burning and shedding away her skin. She felt this dermockracy made her appear more youthful by having the sun exfoliate for her. Instead she was becoming melabnormal.

Etymology: Derma (skin) & Mock (fool, copy, imitate) and WordPlay on Democracy (the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group)

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Created by: ericsimmons39

Pronunciation: Score-peh-durm-ulls

Sentence: When i woke up in the morning after the long day at the beach, my pillow was laden with scorpidermals and Puerto Rican businessmen.

Etymology: Scorched + Epidermis

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: secks a peeeeel

Sentence: The unfortunate thing was that while the sexapeel method made his bits look younger, they also made them so painful as to preclude anyone from touching them, which sort of defeated the purpose.

Etymology: peel, sex appeal

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COMMENTS:

Good one! It made me laugh! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-17: 09:59:00

good one Galway - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-17: 11:11:00

All is not sex that apeels! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-17: 18:31:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: durma/bearn/shun

Sentence: The new medical procedure dermabairnsion ensures skin as smooth as a baby's bottom.

Etymology: dermabrasion + bairn (baby)

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COMMENTS:

Derma & bairn: great word element blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-17: 18:25:00

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: v: ex-FOOL-ishd n: ex-FOOL-ee-shed

Sentence: v.: Terri exfoolished with a cucumber herb peel that left her smelling like a salad dressing. n: Rodney's exfoolished from his sunburn was neatly stacked in piles sorted by size because of his rampant OCD.

Etymology: Exfoliate (to remove a layer of dead skin) + foolish + Shed

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: skin-vig-or-ayt

Sentence: getting rid of my outer layer left me feeling skinvigorated

Etymology: skin, invigorate

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Created by: AcesOfHearts

Pronunciation: Ten-u-an-um

Sentence: She began to tenuanim her skin as she came back in from the hot sun from the beach outside.

Etymology: Tenu-Stretch Anim-Life

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: skin-so-sloft

Sentence: Everyone thought Marcy had a bad case of dandruff. No one suspected the white stuff on her shirt was SkinSoSloughed.

Etymology: Product by Avon, slough

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COMMENTS:

very funny!! I laughed out loud when I read this one - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-17: 11:09:00

Glad ya got a chuckle Jabber! - purpleartichokes, 2007-09-17: 16:11:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: ex-fol-ee-aged

Sentence: Instead of looking younger, Lucy's skin was so exfoliaged that she eventually started to look like an antique piece of leather, demonstrating the many years of sun-worshiping in her back yard.

Etymology: exfoliate: to remove layers of bark or skin;peel + foliage: leaves on plants and trees + aged: being of advanced age

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Created by: kelseyslack

Pronunciation: slof-ve-ter-derm-a

Sentence: i am suffering from sloughveterderma and it is really painful and i am embarrassed by it.

Etymology: slough-to cast away veter-old derm-skin

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