Verboticisms

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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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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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: sooth/dol/uh/gee

Sentence: In all shaky governments and dictatorships, one of the key posts in the government is the department of psoothedolgy which sends out the media messages to comfort the masses and promote stability.

Etymology: PSOOTHEDOLOGY - noun - from PSEUDOLOGY (lying considered as an art) + SOOTHE (to tranquilize, or calm a person, or their feelings)

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COMMENTS:

Interesting blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-24: 08:13:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ply-see-boh

Sentence: He was happy to soothe her with a simple pliecebo

Etymology: lie, placebo

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Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: pa-tree-cod-el

Sentence: Joe found it easier to patricoddle the man who accosted him daily from the alley asking for two bits, rather than being rude and scaring him away.

Etymology: patri from patronize + coddle (to pamper, or whatever you like) = patricoddle

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Created by: RustyGb

Pronunciation: fib-let (phoenetic)

Sentence: When asked of his whereabouts, Jim loosed a fiblet about a dentist's appointment to preserve the secret of Carie's surprise party.

Etymology: Fib: to lie -let: small one (MF -elet, fr el)

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COMMENTS:

I like it! - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:20:00

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Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: Ver-dih-sept Veer-dih-sept Ver-dee-sept Veer-dee-sept

Sentence: The broken man told a small virdecept to make the young couple feel better.

Etymology: Vir-virtue/virgin/pure decept- deception, deceive

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Created by: lingualx

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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: theDoad

Pronunciation: blank-ah-mewze

Sentence: "I'm sorry, what did you say? I'm afraid I was blancamusing the whole scenario!"

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fab-ri-pley-keyt

Sentence: Sometimes people just can't handle the truth so sometimes it is easier to fabriplacate them with a little white lie.

Etymology: fabricate (to fake; forge) + placate (calm, appease)

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