Verboticisms

Created by: thedirkus

Pronunciation: Sluhj - Spee - ker

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Created by: crazymuso

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He was a multisyllabadroner - it took him 3 hours to tell me what the time was, whilst I was looking at his watch.

Etymology: Multi + syllable + drone

| Comments and Points

Created by: EonaFrae

Pronunciation: Sp-laud-er

Sentence: If Tom kept splodding along, I would never make the 6:30 reservation.

Etymology: Speak [to utter words] + Plod [the act of moving or walking heavily and slowly]

| Comments and Points

Created by: eddie

Pronunciation: bor/a/toan

Sentence: Steve "The Slug" Jones speaks in such a boreatone manner that he has been known to talk people to sleep.

Etymology: boredom + monotone

| Comments and Points

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: bow ray tur

Sentence: She couldn't understand how such a borator had such a hot partner. Then she thought about it for a looooong time.

Etymology: bore orator

| Comments and Points

Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: lon gwist'

Sentence: My friend Daryl, a gifted longuist, knows how to leave a voice mail message that, while saying very little, is so drawn out it exceeds the voice mail time limit. Starting with a period of silence followed by "Uhhh... heyyy..." just adds to the effect.

Etymology: long + linguist

| Comments and Points

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: ver-bal-laze

Sentence: John is a notorious verbalazer. If he gets the chance to trap you into a conversation, you might as well abandon all hope of being on time for the rest of the day. You're trapped into hearing about his daughter's dance recital and his mother's gallstones whether you like it or not.

Etymology: Verbalize: verbose; express in words + laze: kill or waste time

| Comments and Points

Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: cum.ber.cone

Sentence: Hubert is such a flucking cumbercone! By the time he has told everyone at the office about ... about ... about ... his weekend it's Monday night.

Etymology: cumbersome + cone (as in the shape of a loudspeaker or other orifices put to a similar use)

| Comments and Points

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: com uni co maa

Sentence: Steve had chronic comunicomma, he could'nt finish even a two word sentence within a minute.

Etymology: from communicate and comma and coma. Always putting commas where they are not needed and so slow that he can put you in a coma.

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

that,is, I, think, a, very, good, way...(ran out of commas) :) - Alchemist, 2007-03-02: 06:39:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: drone/prone

Sentence: Pierre Pantperhog was known among family, friends, and foes alike as a dithering "droneprone" dude.

Etymology: drone + prone

| Comments and Points