Verboticisms

Created by: alabaster

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Sentence: I needed a place to stay tonight, but getting arrested for credit card fraud at the hotel was not what I had in mind.

Etymology: frustrated + satisfied

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: dee-SYRE

Sentence: Alex wanted a bunch of dates, and got them--in a loaf of bread from Auntie. He reluctantly ate the object of his desighre.

Etymology: desire + sigh (of despair)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: yurn/spurn

Sentence: His yearnspurn was finally getting promoted to vice president of his company and a big raise, but getting transferred to the Arctic circle office.

Etymology: yearn + spurn

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Created by: joelb

Pronunciation: in-ad-BLERT-ment

Sentence: Jesse provoked Samantha's inadblurtment by consistantly agreeing with all of her likes and dislikes.

Etymology: inadvertant + blurt + statement

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: dis-uhp-got

Sentence: He felt like Fred Flintstone, with that "wah, wah, wah, wahhhhh" sound in the background when she made eye contact with him, but flipped him the bird curtly. He skulked home disappgotten again, but far better than being totally ignored.

Etymology: disappoint + got

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Created by: noztril

Pronunciation: an-tahy-nohm

Sentence: His failure was a result of his antignome ambitions.

Etymology: anti + gnome

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Lep-ruh-KON-suh-kwence

Sentence: The little dude in the green coat and hat seemed so friendly at first, but the leprechaunsequence of asking for "a hot chick" was a bucket of KFC original recipe.

Etymology: Leprechaun (magical being) + consequence.

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: WISH-bane

Sentence: When Bob broke off the larger part of the wishbone, he thought that he was in for a spate of good luck. And, immediately, it seemed that good luck had come his way when Bob - a great wine lover- received news that he had inherited a vineyard from his late uncle. But when he realized that it was sitting on the edge of the Great Australian Desert, and had only ever produced harvests of sour grapes, he began to think that his furculations were nothing more than a wishbane.

Etymology: Based on wishbone and the custom of two people, making secret wishes, tug on opposite end of a furcula of a fowl. For the person who breaks off the larger piece the wish comes true. Bane: something or someone that causes unhappiness or distress.

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Created by: haldean

Pronunciation: WISH-IH-PRO-KAY-SHUN

Sentence: I didn't want him to die, really; it was just a figure of speech! I wasn't counting on any wishiprocation.

Etymology: WISH - desire, want (English) RECIPROCATION - to get what one deserves (English)

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Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: wish-uh-point-muhnt

Sentence: Ken received his wishappointment but the transmission promptly fell out of it.

Etymology: Wish - (to hope for) disappointment - (let down)

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