Verboticisms

Created by: tvguard

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: hye steer eee aa

Sentence: her highsteria was probably due to something lower down, such as the grass on which she had been picnicking

Etymology: hysteria high

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: ale + ee + en + si + ko + sis

Sentence: Drew was diagnosed with a severe case of alienspsychosis after he came home complaining about the space creatures who landed in front of his car and made him board their ship. Ever since then, he is terrified to be outside with the night sky and a million stars twinkling above because in that endless surface against which all aerial objects are seen from the earth he sees large silent UFOs cruising overhead...

Etymology: Aliens and Psychosis >> aliens (extraterrestrial being: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere) psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted )

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: par-uh-NOR-mya

Sentence: Felicity was again experiencing a severe bout of paranormia, fearing an assault by imaginary objects from above that only she could see and sense.

Etymology: Blend of 'paranormal' (Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation) and 'paranoia' (A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: air/os/is

Sentence: Jody suffers from the heartbreak of aerosis constantly ducking and flinging herself under sidewalk and park benches to avoid being struck by her perceived areonautic space debris.

Etymology: AEROSIS - noun - from AERO (pertaining to flying objects such as aeroplanes) + NEUROSIS (personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety and a degree of social, or interpersonal maladjustment)

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COMMENTS:

Good word, but I got tongue cramps pronouncing it! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:47:00

I can't even say this once slow let alone three times fast ... must need an alien tongue to say this one! Superb tongue twister! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:02:00

I think my comment was supposed to appear beneath "Pedesastrian".....AEROSIS is clever and eminently pronounceable. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 17:23:00

Nice switcheroo stevenson! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 17:40:00

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: u f o fright ing

Sentence: The most recent of Lunar’s ufofrightings came at the time she was searching through a particularly tangled shrub in her garden for what, we can only imagine. Lunar knew there was something lurking in that gaudy intertwine of Hydrangea/Lilac: she could sense a presence waiting to lunge! She pressed her lips together. Her piercing gaze into the shrub was easily interrupted by, high in the distant sky, a luminescent puck, a ufofrighting! It immediately removed her from her paranoidormal search into the greenery. Lunar tore quickly into her tiny kitchen, double-locked the door, pressed her lips together and fixed a piercing ghaze up into the sky...

Etymology: from ufo sighting and fright - to fear the appearance of an unidentified flying object

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: skare + born

Sentence: Todd felt scaireborne by all that he imagined to be airborne.

Etymology: scare and airborne -- scare means to cause fear and airborne -- caused to be moved through the air.

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COMMENTS:

hehe - galwaywegian, 2009-03-05: 08:42:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:33:00

Off we grow...into the wild blue yonder.... - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:37:00

very appealing - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:14:00

Todd, be afraid, be very afraid... - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:28:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: pee ann ik

Sentence: Digger's screams of pianic inevitably ended in a flat minor

Etymology: panic piano

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ewe eff oh miee gawd

Sentence: her constant bouts of ufohmygod led to alienation

Etymology: UFO oh my God

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Created by: kalex

Pronunciation: X-chra-ma-jin-uh-foh-bee-uh

Sentence: Afflicted with xtrimaginaphobia as she was, Evelyn could not leave the comfort of her tiny home. If she did, she would be subject to the assault of any or every UFO within 400 light years (or so she thought).

Etymology: Xtra-as in extra-terrestrial magina-imagine phobia-fear

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