Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sləfəl

Sentence: If beauty is skin deep, Liz is up to her eyeballs in gorgeous. As she sluffles along through life, she does her best to make to a good first impression but often leaves a bigger impression when she departs. Unfortunately when she gets nervous, she sheds skin much faster than normal. She would have landed the job as the spokeslizard for Geico if she hadn*t shed 3 layers and interviewed looking pink.

Etymology: sluff (slough): shed + shuffle: walk by dragging one*s feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground

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Created by: lulu78d

Pronunciation: mal-tend

Sentence: The older woman had to maltend the skin on her pale face.

Etymology: mal- bad tend- to stretch

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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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Created by: tizher

Pronunciation:

Sentence: No matter how hard she tried, she could not hide her sunscales in the shadows.

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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: joshb316

Pronunciation: corp-o-mil-der-m

Sentence: Because of his corpomalderm, Jorge went in for an appointment, and found out he had skin cancer.

Etymology: Corp:Body Mal:Bad Derm:Skin

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Created by: Jenna

Pronunciation: huhsk-e-durm

Sentence: My mother went to the Spa for a HUSKIDERM, as she felt it give her a new glow. Two days after being burnt to a crisp by the sun, Sally was leaving bits of HUSKIDERM everywhere.

Etymology: Husk-Epidermis

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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: EvelynS

Pronunciation: cur-vehter-derhm

Sentence: Ever since I went to the beach without sunscreen I've started to curveterderm my face.

Etymology: Cur-cure+veter-old+derm-skin

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: re/gen/er/dy/sis

Sentence: To maintain a youthful look in the 21st century, my anti-aging consultant and health specialist, recommends regenerdysis twice a year.

Etymology: regenerate + ecdysis (The shedding of an outer integument or layer of skin)

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