Verboticisms

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ow ray tor

Sentence: Father Murphy's houratory style had a very wholesome effect on anyone thinking sinful thoughts. After one of his sermons no one could remember what sins they were thinking of committing, not even the ones who remained awake

Etymology: orator, hour

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COMMENTS:

Houray for you! - Nosila, 2009-09-22: 10:57:00

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Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: shprek-en-lah-ger

Sentence: I'm sorry I'm late! Some sprechenlager at the DMV kept me there for two hours while he explained why it's bad to run a red light!

Etymology: Take off on the German for "speak"="sprechen" + "lag" meaning "to delay" + "er" which is the ending for changing a verb into a personal noun in German

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Created by: FreakyDeak

Pronunciation: Crall-drall

Sentence: Once he starts with his crawldrawl the wide awake sleep and the comatose die.

Etymology: Crawl(to move slowly) + Drawl(lengthened syllables)

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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]

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Created by: BuenoCabra

Pronunciation: (JA-bur-fuh'-dul)

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Created by: aj3131

Pronunciation: Talk-u-mentary

Sentence: Everybody want the dude to stop giving us a talkumentary about how he scraped the pimples off his back.

Etymology: talk + (doc)umentary

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COMMENTS:

i really like it but it seems to be more the things the person is saying instead of the actual person...? its good otherwise - ekath, 2007-03-06: 22:16:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: Drag-ing-drawl

Sentence: Southern Slowpoke Sam was such a draggingdrawl speaker...you would want to pull his words out with your hands!

Etymology: Dragging; failure to act with the necessary promptness or vigor. Drawl; to utter in a slow lengthened tone.

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COMMENTS:

Love it, but had already spent my votes! Cheers. - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 00:35:00

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Created by: swallowedbyafish

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Unbeknownst to Billy-Bob, he was a notorious monotorator, which explained why everybody always seemed to space out when he spoke.

Etymology: monotonous/monotone + orator

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: lowgear

Sentence: Just let him talk, he is talking in lowgear

Etymology: low and gear as in gearbox

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈwɚdˌslɑɡɚ/

Sentence: The wordslogger's tenacity might have been inspiring if context hadn't made it abundantly clear what he was trying to say three sentences into his soliloquy.

Etymology: From word + slog + -er

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