Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: To assert your right-of-way in traffic, even when it's stupidly dangerous to do so.
Verboticisms
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Autostupasia
Created by: Carole
Pronunciation: auto /stewp /azia
Sentence: It was madness to challenge the oncoming truck, but jake suffered from autostupasia, which rendered him totally unable to see the danger.
Etymology: auto/car, stup/stupid, asia/ from thanastos=death.
Wrongofway
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: rong-ov-way
Sentence: too many people these days think they can just take the wrong-of-way whenever they feel like it.
Etymology: a play on the words right of way
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COMMENTS:
Just so we're clear, I created wrongofway before bondfool. Not that it's terribly difficult to conceive, but just so we're clear... - Javeson1, 2007-01-08: 13:48:00
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Stupidicide
Created by: Chunk01
Pronunciation: stew-PID-ee-side
Sentence: Despite all logic to the contrary she continued across the juntion to commit an act of righteously indignant stupidicide
Etymology: Stupid-Suicide=stupidicide
Egomotor
Created by: Apone
Pronunciation: E-go-mo-tor
Sentence: "Why do you always egomotor like that? You'll get us killed!"
Etymology: prefix "ego" (e.g. of egomania) with "motor" meaning to drive
Rightrage
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: RīT-rāj
Sentence: By some severe rightraging, he managed to make his Beetle grow the size of a roadtrain - in his head.
Etymology: "Right-of-way" + "roadrage"
Angautomable
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: ang-graw-toe-maw-bull
Sentence: He was angautomable because he was late to work
Etymology: German
Carageous
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: car-a-geous
Sentence: Peregrine stamped his foot on the accelarator and carageously overtook the truck, despite the thick fog.
Etymology: From car and courageous
Wheelooicide
Created by: vixphilia
Pronunciation: Wheel-oo-*ee*-cide
Sentence: These Brits sure can't drive! Just keep Wheelooiciding and they'll learn to drive on the other side of the street.
Etymology: Wheel + Suicide, with the double O's to emphasize the stupidity of the acton.
Streetknuckle
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: street-nuk-ull
Sentence: Swallowing one's pride and choosing not to streetknuckle prevents many an accident.
Etymology: In a shamelessly lame attempt to appeal to the masses (for votes), the simple streak continues: From "street" and "knuckle". I hate myself.
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COMMENTS:
Shamelessly lame? Simple is better. I like this one...sounds like a word I'd actually use, as opposed to most of the linguistic monstrosities out there. - ErWenn, 2007-01-06: 01:09:00
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