Verboticisms

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

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Created by: AnnieChandon

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Created by: thinkbolt

Pronunciation: san-ta-tude

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: kuhm - fer - lahy

Sentence: Knowing that Mom would be upset if she heard how her son died, the doctor told the best possible comforlie: "Your son is in heaven."

Etymology: Comfort + Lie

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: spin + nice

Sentence: Sometimes you have to just throw out a few spinnices to settle folks down.

Etymology: spin + nice.

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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)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: simp - le - fik - shun - all - iz

Sentence: Since Sally couldn't quite explain the circumstances of her whereabouts, she decided to simplictionalize her story. She felt that it took out the complexity of the situation and put it into a scenario that was better understandable by her family.

Etymology: simplify, fictionalize

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ben/uh/fib

Sentence: To keep their spirits up and help them through the day to complete their tasks, the boss would often encourage his staff with a benefib or two.

Etymology: benefit + fib

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COMMENTS:

Dude, you come up with the best words without making them long and cumbersome. - jedijawa, 2007-04-16: 12:55:00

And people love voting for the obvious ones! ;) - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-16: 15:13:00

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Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: per-jilled-ence

Sentence: granpa always had a perjildance for every question we asked as kids, but he still uses them even tough were in our late twenties

Etymology: perjury( of course, not in the court of law) + child (as in how you're spoken to when lied to in this sense)

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: re/a/blur/ance

Sentence: Her therapist knew she was too fragile for the truth on this night. It was obvious to him that her husband did not really have the ability to give himself a hickey near his belly button. Instead, he offered a little reablurrance hoping he could muster his best poker face.

Etymology: reassurance: the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence. blur: clouding, or fogging. reablurrance: the act of reassuring and blurring the facts a bit when the truth will hurt

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COMMENTS:

cute - Nosila, 2008-06-23: 22:01:00

Nice and comforting! - reverb, 2008-07-11: 12:28:00

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