Verboticisms

Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: mull-ass-uh-log

Sentence: I'd rather be eaten alive by a wild hog than listen to another Molassalogue.

Etymology: molasses + monologue

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COMMENTS:

Does a molassalogue have a sweet tooth? And always tell a sugar-coated verson? - petaj, 2007-03-02: 20:02:00

Can my 'treaclespeaker' deliver a molassalogue? Nice word! - Discoveria, 2007-03-02: 21:32:00

would you listen in a fog? would you listen with a hog? - Alchemist, 2007-03-03: 07:46:00

Great one! - BMott, 2007-03-09: 00:11:00

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Created by: toralora

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Paul is a typical jabbler. He told a short and unimportant story in 2 hours.

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: drone + stop + uh + bull

Sentence: Oh man, don't get Al Gore going on global warming - he's dronestoppable.

Etymology: Drone + unstoppable. (This isn't really one of my best.)

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Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: verb-uh-snail

Sentence: She itched trying to resist helping the verbasnail seated across from her finish his sentence.

Etymology: Verba: of or pertaining to language. -- Snail: critter known for being incredibly slow.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: slôθmouθ

Sentence: Whenever Tim has trouble sleeping, he goes to his TV and turns on the local government access channel. He has his own name for the reporter who covers the city council. He calls him Yawn Sleeperson. Five minutes with this slothmouth is sure to bring on slumber. If he is lucky he can stumble to bed just before he nods off, otherwise it’s another morning waking up in rumpled clothing with a kink in his neck.

Etymology: sloth (a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws) + mouth (the opening in the lower part of the human face, surrounded by the lips, through which food is taken in and from which speech and other sounds are emitted)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber

Sentence: It took Frank, a classic dallygabber, three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds. It became so frustrating that everyone was finishing his sentences for him.

Etymology: dally + gab + gabber

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COMMENTS:

Is the Dalai Lama a dallygabber? - porsche, 2007-03-02: 10:30:00

I suspect the Dalai Lama is a dilly dallying dallgabber. - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:33:00

oops I meant a dilly dallying dallygabber - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:34:00

A dillying dallygabber? I guess he would go on, and on, and on... Which might be good, unless it was all talk and no action. - wordmeister, 2007-03-02: 10:50:00

I think this has become a silly dilly dallying dallygabber discourse. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:54:00

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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.

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COMMENTS:

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

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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

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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: josje

Pronunciation: lowgear

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

Etymology: low and gear as in gearbox

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