Verboticisms

Created by: nuemj88

Pronunciation: cum-pulse-se-pown-age

Sentence: I totally compusipwnaged that open internet test. He just got compulsipwned in that debate

Etymology: compulsi-a very strong impulse to do something pwnage-The verb to pwn (past tense: pwned, pwnd, pwn'd, pwnt, pooned) as used by the Internet gaming subculture, means to beat or dominate an opponent.

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Created by: Elfie

Pronunciation: rhymes with hate-mail

Sentence: Jenny dictated yet another pratemail to her friend, as her hands were fully occupied.

Etymology: combined from "prate" - to blather on in annoying fashion, and "mail", a missive or message sent electronically or physically to another person.

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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: 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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COMMENTS:

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: sunny09

Pronunciation: pett-scribe

Sentence: I started screening my calls to avoid my friend calling hourly to pettscribe her doings, only to discover she now sends her pettscriptions to my inbox.

Etymology: petty + describe

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: its all a boast

Sentence: It was the sixth time Marcia called me in one day. I looked at my watch and told myself I was only going to give her 5 minutes this time knowing that if I stayed on any longer, she was going to start itsallaboasting again. I mean I love her...but do I really need to know that she just dreamt that she'd was awake?! "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"

Etymology: Derived from the illness Itsallaboutme an illness whose main symptom is boasting.

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: TEK-no-blab

Sentence: The woman in front of me at the curry stand was so busy technoblabbing about buying curry that I finally had to tell her to hang up and pay the man. "Some guy just told me to hang up and pay", she continued, oblivious.

Etymology: techno (logy) + blab (run off at the mouth)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: twit-er-twit

Sentence: Marsha loves Twitter. She will tell her followers about every detail of her life. Yesterday she proved how much of a twittertwit she is when she tweeted "I'm tweeting right now".

Etymology: twitter (Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service) + twit (an insignificant, silly, or bothersome person)

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Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: die-ar-hee-ha

Sentence: Michael wondered if his celluar diarrheehaa was a byproduct of his forced constipsaytion at work, so he called one his friends and chat at his desk... This was a big mistake.

Etymology: diary + diarrhea

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COMMENTS:

everyone i know has this proplem. lol - willster, 2007-04-16: 21:21:00

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Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation: in ter MIN er ate

Sentence: All day, while ostensibly working at her computer, she was interminarating over IM.

Etymology: interminable + narrate

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