Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: yoo-foh-bee-uh

Sentence: Ginny has a bad case of UFObia. She is afraid of anything she can't immediately identify that is airborne. Just last week she had a screaming hissy fit when a plastic grocery bag blew her way unexpectedly.

Etymology: UFO (unidentified flying object) + phobia (fear)

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: more-TAL-ih-TROM-ih-TRANCE

Sentence: The fireworks were over, and only the smoke remained when he asked if anyone had seen the "flying V"...When the peals of derisive laughter died down, he explained that it wasn't a vintage electric guitar, but an enormous airborne triangular craft. Moments later, the giggles died as their jaws dropped and they stared up at the sky, immobilized by a MORTALITRAUMATRANCE which rendered everyone completely silent.

Etymology: MORTALITY(from mortal)+TRAUMA+TRANCE= MORTALITRAUMATRANCE.....MORTAL; subject to death , possible , conceivable, marked by great intensity or severity ,of, relating to, or connected with death,the death of large numbers (as of people or animals);Middle English, from Anglo-French mortel, mortal, from Latin mortalis, from mort-, mors death.....TRAUMA: a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress or physical injury,an agent, force, or mechanism that causes trauma; Greek traumat-, trauma wound, alteration of trōma; akin to Greek titrōskein to wound, tetrainein to pierce.....TRANCE: stupor , daze; Middle English traunce, from Anglo-French transe death, coma, rapture, from transir to depart, die, from Latin transire to cross, pass by .

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COMMENTS:

Laugh all you want. I'm NOT going back there. http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc673.htm - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:21:00

Q: How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:24:00

nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:35:00

Q: How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?..................A: Only one, but the light bulb has to WANT TO CHANGE. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 13:16:00

Good word. You get a star for the longest word of the day, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:09:00

Could i have a chipmunk sticker instead? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 16:11:00

Sure! lol - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 17:45:00

Oh, metro, your jokes about light bulbs are so incandescent and illuminating! - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:31:00

:) Good one ! - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-25: 14:08:00

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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 efff owe beeee ah

Sentence: Her mother could never understand how her ufobia, prevelant since that summer night in the cornfield at the age of four, never seemed to stop her dating the most extraterrestrial looking dorks and wierdos. Sometimes Mindy worried her deeply.

Etymology: UFO phobia

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COMMENTS:

Great! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-05: 09:26:00

on a roll - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:34:00

Cleverly arcane reference! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:40:00

Out of this world! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:15:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: fan/tas/ee/mag/or/eea

Sentence: Sally suffered from fantasymagoria every time a Star Trek convention came to town.

Etymology: fantasy + phantasmagoria (shifting series of real or imaginary figures as seen in a dream)

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COMMENTS:

Everyone loves a good fantasy! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:12:00

I like the way you think :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-01: 16:40:00

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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: readerwriter

Pronunciation: doomz-dayz

Sentence: It was 1971 and Inertia was too frightened to go out of doors. Doomzdaze, as well as the haze of smoke from a certain dried flower, hung over her like a cloud--a radioactive UFO-shaped cloud. Lately, even the indoors was terrifying. The Paul Klee prints on the walls were alive and talking to her. "Go to the desert," they said. "Wait for the flying saucers to pick you up." Oh, to have the strength to pack the dried apricots and brown rice in the van! Maybe the Ouija board was right: California is falling into the ocean!

Etymology: From DOOMSDAY, a Day of Judgement + DAZE, to stun, stupefy

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COMMENTS:

nice! - galwaywegian, 2009-03-05: 08:41:00

Thanx...some dayz are certainly better than otherz! - readerwriter, 2009-03-05: 11:28:00

terrific word - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:37:00

Hilarious! Makes me miss the festival in Mosport! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:45:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: känstərālēənnāshən

Sentence: Wendell is not allowed to watch Sci-Fi movies. Every time he watches one he is left with an overwhelming sense of consteralienation. Every light in the sky, every unexplained noise he hears is surly extraterrestrial. He is just one step short of wearing tin foil on his head. This wouldn’t look good in his position as CEO of a major corporation.

Etymology: consternation (feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected) + alien (extraterrestrial)

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