Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dya ree ya

Sentence: Dahlia talked on the phone all day about nothing. But then with the advent of the Internet...she carried her blethering unto the rest of the world. The trivial details of her boring life were best expressed on her blog, called "Dahlia Diaryhhea". Her mental constipation also included poor spelling. The one thing positive thing was that Dahlia Diaryhhea made others appreciate how exciting their own lives were by comparison.

Etymology: Diary (daily bog or log of one's activities, no matter how trivial) & Diarrhea (runny bowels; also verbal diarrhea is when people talk way too much...they run on and on).

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COMMENTS:

funny and clever - mweinmann, 2009-10-29: 08:54:00

Good one - karenanne, 2009-10-30: 09:35:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: yak-bair-eee

Sentence: Sue is such a yackberry that she felt the need to call and tell me how many licks it was taking to get the the center of her tootsie pop.

Etymology: yack, blackberry

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: teck-noll-idj-me

Sentence: i am now putting in my sentence to contextualize tecknowledgeme having just completed the pronunciation...which i think went quite well... and after i've done this i'm going to do the etymology..

Etymology: technology, acknowledge me

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COMMENTS:

brilliant sentence! - sunny09, 2007-04-11: 22:51:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: trayht-ig-zist-OI-uh

Sentence: Bob's tritexistoia was so ridiculously out of control that he spent the greater part of his waking hours telling,in the most minutissimic details, anyone who would listen to him of his plans to produce computerised models of the 555 sewing needles in his collection.

Etymology: TRITE. adj:lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale; banal; commonplace ideas. I.T: initialism for Informational Technology. EXIST: vb.:to have an existence, be extant; be alive, -nOIA suffix. In mild form "-oia" may consist in the "strange behaviour" exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks."

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COMMENTS:

sounds like a legitimate ailment - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 13:58:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: twētsikstēn

Sentence: Katie is just sure everybody is hanging on every facebook status update she makes. If she changes the color of her toenail polish, her world of friends knows about it. She recently stepped it up a notch by opening a Twitter account. Her account name is tweetsixteen despite the fact that she is 56 years old.

Etymology: tweet (a post on Twitter) + sixteen (one more than fifteen) Sweet sixteen (used to refer to the age of sixteen as characterized by prettiness and innocence in a girl.)

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COMMENTS:

:-) - CharlieB, 2011-03-17: 04:03:00

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: sad/naws/ee/am

Sentence: Oliver's irritating habit of collecting all of his toe nail clippings and then displaying photographs of them on his blog was equalled only by his sadnauseam descriptions of when each one was cut.

Etymology: sad (no really... very sad!) + ad nauseam (to a sickening degree)

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It's "ad nauseam", just so you know. But good one nonetheless. :) - PythianHabenero, 2007-04-11: 08:36:00

Thanks Pyth', I will edit. I was in a bit of a rush this morning, had to catch a bus at 9.48 and couldn't find enough change... ooops going on sadnauseam again... - pinwheel, 2007-04-11: 10:27:00

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Created by: AnnieChandon

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Created by: CanMon

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Sentence: You can tell when Susan has had a million insignificant things occur in her day--her laptop is covered in blomit.

Etymology: Combination of vomit and blog.

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: tek-tryte

Sentence: If cell phones never existed, neither would techtrite. Theirs is a symbiotic relationship. Most techtriters are proud and therefore speak very loud on their cell phones so everyone can hear them.

Etymology: technology + trite

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ob/cell

Sentence: Jenny would obcell with her best friend about every detail of her life. However, with the new all-you-can-talk plan on her phone, Jenny became totally obcelled, letting everyone know everything she did. This obcellsive behavoiur drove Joe, her boyfriend, to purchase the call display and call block features for his phone.

Etymology: OBCELL - verb - from - TO OBSESS (to dominate the thoughts, feelings, or desires of a person - in this case herself) + CELL ( as in phone)

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COMMENTS:

Ha! Hilarious! - lumina, 2008-06-17: 10:41:00

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