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DEFINITION: v. To get what you wished for, but not exactly what you wanted. n. A wish come true that's a total let down.
Verboticisms
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Wishwreck
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: wuish - rek
Sentence: Oliver was the victim of a wishwreck this week. This often happened to him. He would build up a fantasy about something or someone in his mind and when he finally got what he wanted, reality was often disappointing.
Etymology: wish, wreck
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COMMENTS:
Reality is for those who lack imagination - artr, 2009-07-28: 09:39:00
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Genieatall
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: jee nee at all
Sentence: Norbert was one smart, shy dude, but the ladies viewed him as a geek. One day he found a brass lamp and imagining himself to be Alladin, he rubbed it. A big blue genie floated out of the lamp and told Norbert he could have 3 wishes. Norbert's first wish was to look handsome, but have dark curly hair. Poof he got his wish. His second request was to be able to sing well and play the guitar...Poof, he became musical! His third wish was to have a sense of humour, so that he could talk to the ladies. Poof, he developed a ribald, ascerbic wit! He was so delighted that he went up to the first gorgeous girl he saw and started chatting her up. She reeled back in horror and said, "You're Weird Al Yankovic and you are way too old for me!" Norbert picked up the now vacant lamp and cursed it! "You're no genieatall and why are those Candid Camera people following me?"
Etymology: Genie (a spirit who lives in a lamp. The one who finds it rubs the lamp and gets 3 wishes, before the spirit can be freed from the lamp.) & At All (in the slightest degree or in any respect) Also wordplay on genital (of the sex organs) to which many wishes allude...
Wishboned
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: wishbohnd
Sentence: The young comedian wanted more than anything to make the beautiful blonde in the front row laugh. He was completely wishboned when she started braying like a donkey with hiccups.
Etymology: wish (desire)+ boned (screwed)
Wishysquashy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The drift of his desire was so misunderstood that he ended up getting a wishysquashy reaction.
Etymology: Wish + squash
Desirefluous
Created by: thedreness
Pronunciation: Dee-zigh-err-flu-us
Sentence: To gaze into her yearning eyes longingly was sufficient. To have her boyfriend come from their table to mine to ask me if I had a problem was desirefluous...
Etymology: Desire + Superfluous
Wishwarranty
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: wish/war/an/tee
Sentence: Regretfully, his "wishwarranty" did not cover this unexpected exigency.
Etymology: It's a pity that a "wish", like unrequited love, does not come with a no questions asked money-back guarantee.
Fantaseek
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: fan tass eeek
Sentence: The fantasy became a fantaseek when he tried to undo the bobbles on her bikini bottoms and found that they weren't bobbles
Etymology: fantasy, eek
Dohdream
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Dough-Dream
Sentence: D'ohdream!, not again, I must be due one small dream to come true:(
Etymology: Remming together of 1)D'oh, exclamation of fury, discontent and general indignance made famous by Homer of the Simpsons 2)dayDream Chief activity of Walter Mitty and his decendents (mankind..not womankind mind)
Comments:
ATTENTION ALL PLAYERS: Round One is ending today and we will be declaring the first official Verbotomy winner!
We will start Round Two on Monday with fresh scores -- i.e. everyone starts with zero!
So please cast your final votes for this round's verboticisms today. Good luck!
wordmeister - 2006-11-24: 11:16:00
Good word chris. I have been giftmiffed a few times. Hey, does anyone know what the official title will be for the game winner? They should be able to come up with a good title. How about adding "VbD" to the playername since the winner should be awarded a "Doctorate in Verbotomy".
- 2006-11-24: 11:40:00
The winner (mother?) will be drunk with the power, so how about "Verbloto"?
- 2006-11-24: 11:48:00
Mother drunk?? Never!!! (heavy sarcasm)
- 2006-11-24: 11:50:00
the two styles of drawings seem blended now - very cool
Thanks!
deadpanwalking - 2006-12-05: 11:09:00
My vote's for Mother. Consistently clever. Having said that ... watch your back in round 2!