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: 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: kyrie

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Created by: phonematode

Pronunciation: mohl-ti-play-cay-shun

Sentence: She attempted to mollify her inner youth worshipper by addressing her times table through moltiplacation.

Etymology: molt (to shed) + placate (to calm, appease), + sounds like multiplication; n. moltiplaques = the flakey bits, from plaque (a flat plate, slab, disk, or patch)

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Be careful when you look for the good of days of your youth through moltiplication, cos you might just find algebra! Love the word and enjoyed the bizarreness of the sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-17: 20:25:00

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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: 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: 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: 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: remistram

Pronunciation: soh-lay-skin

Sentence: It was difficult to get optimal soleilskinning done during the winter months so she would schedule several trips to the Caribbean to make up for it.

Etymology: soleil (sun en francais)+ skin

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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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