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DEFINITION: n. A harmless untruth, intended to comfort simple souls. v. To use a little bit a fiction to smooth over the perplexities and complexities of life.
Verboticisms
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Willorized
Created by: willster
Pronunciation: will-or-iz-ed
Sentence: She was extremely willorized by his touch.
Etymology: Will being in the first person; of his magnificness
Wightlie
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: white - lie
Sentence: "Ah'll be alwight nah fanks" he said, after the good samaritan told him a wightlie.
Etymology: white lie + right
Frib
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: fribb
Sentence: As was his nature, Alexander once again passed along a frib when asked a hard question with a potentially embarrasing answer, a tiny untruth that was told to spare the feelings of his friend.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'fib' (small lie) and 'rib'...to poke fun or make light of.
Solaception
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: solace-ep-tion
Sentence: Lying through your teeth when a girl asks you if that dress makes her look fat is a common form of solaception.
Etymology: solace + deception
Spinnice
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: spin + nice
Sentence: Sometimes you have to just throw out a few spinnices to settle folks down.
Etymology: spin + nice.
Fibonaughtchicanery
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fib/oh/not/chi/can/ury
Sentence: Those wonderful fairytales of childhood are really nothing but fibonaughtchicanery.
Etymology: fib + naught (nothing) + chicanery (deception) + fibonacci
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COMMENTS:
Looks it a tongue twister, but sounds good. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-24: 08:17:00
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Inakurt
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn ah kurt
Sentence: the statement was inakurt but onne understood the gut feeling
Etymology: inaccurate, Kurt
Fibfort
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: fib-fort
Sentence: Clarence told many fibforts to his grandkids just before bed time.
Etymology: fib (lie) + comfort (minus the com)
Totalloss
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: total loss
Sentence: my life my brain my body are all total loss
Etymology: total as in complete Loss as in lost
Comfiberate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: com fib er rate
Sentence: Jessie was able to comfiberate her young son with the lore of Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy to help him understand and look forward to special holidays and events. Finding a comfiberation for Halloween was a lot harder to do, especially when Uncle Les insisted on dressing up as a female, Aunt Dorothy, each October 31st as well as on many other occasions during the year...
Etymology: comfort ( give moral or emotional strength to or a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment) & fib (tell a relatively insignificant lie)& liberate(to free from confinement or ideas)
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COMMENTS:
Great word AND hilarious usage! - lumina, 2008-06-23: 22:54:00
Good word and sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-24: 08:08:00
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Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-04-16: 08:00:00
Best verbotoon ever. So it goes, buddy, so it goes.
ErWenn - 2007-04-16: 08:20:00
Just noticed what was written on the typewriter. Ha!
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
RE: "Best Verbotoon Ever" Thanks ErWenn! However I must say it was all inspired by KV himself. So it goes... ~ James
See the top 4 words of the day at Yeah, I'm in heaven now ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
wurdless - 2008-07-12: 15:23:00
Vonnegut is cool!
reverb - 2008-07-12: 15:31:00
cat's cradle rocks
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James
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