Verboticisms

Created by: apathy42

Pronunciation: ass-PER-sah-vocks

Sentence: It was strange; although in every other way Paul was manic, when talking he definitely had the tendency to be an aspersavox.

Etymology: aspersa - the species name for garden snail, vox - latin for voice

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Created by: rosska

Pronunciation: per-new-sense

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Created by: joelb

Pronunciation: WIND-lag

Sentence: By now I knew the directions, but the windlag wouldn't stop telling me where to find the on-ramp.

Etymology: wingbag + lag

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: stew pour 8 or

Sentence: He was a consumate stuporator, having killed three innocent tourists while giving them directions to the bus depot. in the case of two of them, their heartbeats got slower and slower over the course of two hours until they eventually arrested. Being Japanese, they were too polite to walk away. The third one just lost the will to live, and impaled himself on his umbrella.

Etymology: stupor, orator

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Created by: plan9

Pronunciation: low+qway+ster

Sentence: A true loquaster, Bob never failed to use 1,000 words spoken slowly when 100 uttered quickly would do.

Etymology: loquacious + waster

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: tur-tell

Sentence: Bob was a true turtell. He was so slowquacious that by the time he yelled "Fire!", the garage was nothing but a pile of smoldering embers.

Etymology: turtle, tell

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Created by: Xatski

Pronunciation: Plod/en/dro/mic

Sentence: After he failed to pause for breath for the fourteenth time I reliezed his stories were rather plodindromic.

Etymology: Plod + Palindromic (Relapsing, recurring)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber

Sentence: Frank was a classic dallygabber who three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds.

Etymology: dally + gab + gabber

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Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: DUL - ser - tation

Sentence: Arnie's dullsertation on the chemical compounds used to make modern deodorant was more lethal than his body odor.

Etymology: dull + dissertation

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Created by: noztril

Pronunciation: slaw ther

Sentence: the slothor continued even as his audience snored

Etymology: sloth author

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