Verboticisms

Created by: SethelMerman

Pronunciation: Dur-muh-dorn

Sentence: To ready herself for her 15 year class reunion, Sunny went through a rigorous dermadorn to get back her youthful glow.

Etymology: From (derma: skin) + (adorn: v to decorate or add beauty to)

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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: 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: enatefox

Pronunciation: skin-sere

Sentence: The sincere doctor skinseared my face with a belt sander.

Etymology: probably mongolian

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: ex-treem-fall-ee-ate

Sentence: The extremefoliator at the spa recommended that Jill should extremefoliate her skin monthly to retain that just boiled look.

Etymology: extreme + exfoliate

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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: Osomatic

Pronunciation: dih + skin + te + gray + shun

Sentence: Through the new process of Diskintegration (tm) you can shed years off your face, or least several layers of skin!

Etymology: disintegration + skin

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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: ysledd

Pronunciation: Heli-mal-skin-ian

Sentence: Because he didn't wear sunblock, he became a helimalskinian with blisters and dead skin covering his face.

Etymology: Heli: sun mal: bad skin ian: one connected with

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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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