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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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Liethium
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: lie-thee-um
Sentence: She knew that after the day he'd had, the only thing that would calm him down was some liethium
Etymology: lie, lithium [used to treat depression and such]
Benein
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: BEnign+NEIN
Sentence: The fact that he had Alzheimer's disease justified the beneins we told him to keep him happy.
Etymology: BEnign+NEIN Benign - 1. Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless 2. Showing gentleness and mildness. Nein - GERMAN: no; a word used for denying, disagreeing, refusing etc.
Psoothedology
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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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
Troose
Created by: reverb
Pronunciation: troos
Sentence: Some people thought CEO was stealing money from the shareholders, but troose was that he was just borrowing it.
Etymology: loose truth
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COMMENTS:
seems to fit - reverb, 2008-07-12: 15:40:00
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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
Santootheastorkfairbunnyism
Created by: Sharpedgeshurt
Pronunciation: San-tooth-eest-oark-fayr-buh-nee-izm
Sentence: "I don't care, I'm still not using sleeping pills." The insomniac argued when told by the receptionist that he wouldn't be able to get an appointment with the Sand Man because he was a santootheastorkfairbunnyism.
Etymology: First used in mid 1980's during a drunken round of "Say-all-the-fictional-childhood-characters-that-visit-your-house, in-one-breath game." It has rarely been used since.
Blancamuse
Created by: theDoad
Pronunciation: blank-ah-mewze
Sentence: "I'm sorry, what did you say? I'm afraid I was blancamusing the whole scenario!"
Etymology:
Folkology
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: phool-psycho-ollo-G
Sentence: Bruce-actual-lee i could have used the already existing word "folk-psychology" which already covers the subject. The philosophical best verboticism for this definition is the word TRUTH itself, but that would be less fun... damn... i should have changed to FOOLKOLOGY...
Etymology: folk of fools + El O.G. = foolkology
Flubbish
Created by: mac33
Pronunciation: flub-bish
Sentence: "Fluffy's in Cat Heaven now," she said to little Susie, feeling guilty for feeding her child such blatant flubbish.
Etymology: flub - an instance of botching or bungling; failure (here failure to tell the painful truth) rubbish - nonsense (UK)

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
Live it or live WITH it!