Verboticisms

Created by: muchiny

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Sentence: Upon a long walk through the beach, she started feeling the phengodermabrasion all over the exposed skin.

Etymology: Phengo- from Greek for light, sunlight, daylight, splendor, luster derma- from Greek for skin abrasion- superficial damage to skin

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phengonomenal! - Nosila, 2010-01-25: 15:15:00

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Created by: InuYasha11

Pronunciation: Derm-tend

Sentence: Rebecca didn't put on sunscreen, resulting in her face to dermtend.

Etymology: derm-face tend-stretch

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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: 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: Freepiehere

Pronunciation: Mag-Ni-Male

Sentence: The Oregon Trail quest my family set out on has become a complete MAGNIMALE ever since dad caught dysentery.

Etymology: Magni-Great Mal(e)-bad

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Created by: scaredboy617

Pronunciation: Fur-vuh-less

Sentence: The soup is very fervolus.

Etymology: Boily

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Created by: SnatchRaffle

Pronunciation: Dur mah more foe sis

Sentence: Shelly is so beautiful now that her dermamorphosis has finished. She looks 20 years younger.

Etymology: Derma: skin Morph: to change

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Created by: danibriggs

Pronunciation: ben-A-durm-a-cure-ul

Sentence: My mother thinks by getting a benedermacural she will look twenty years younger and find a new boyfriend. She is so wrong.

Etymology: bene- good derma-skin cur-care

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Created by: delanybug

Pronunciation: vet-er-o-corp-less

Sentence: The veterocorpless lady is thinner and petite each time I see her in the nursing home when I come to visit.

Etymology: old body smaller of

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Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: iks-foe-lee-ayt

Sentence: She realized her attempt to icksfoliate prior to her high school reunion went awry when her old crush noticed that the shaved parmesan on her fettucine was in fact her own icksfoliation.

Etymology: exfoliate + ick!

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