Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: läjihoōē

Sentence: Whenever Cindy approaches her father with a proposal to buy something he bombards her with logihooey, passionate drivel about how he had to work for everything he has ever owned. To hear him, you would think that, as a baby, he had to work to buy his own diapers.

Etymology: logic (reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity) + hooey (nonsense)

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: er go SEN trist

Sentence: He is such an ergocentrist. Basically, his attitude is, "This is how I did it thirty years ago and it worked for me; therefore, this is how it should continue to work." He says he never gets vaccinations because when he was 17, he got one, and the next day, he broke his ankle. Therefore, he would never get a vaccination again because he is sure it makes people's bones turn brittle. Since then, he has never broken a bone, which just "proves" his theory. But he does get the flu almost every year. (Which he blames on computer viruses, because he never got the flu until he was 18, and hey, that was RIGHT AROUND the time that computers really hit the popular market, so therefore,....)

Etymology: ergo (therefore) + egocentric

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COMMENTS:

ergological word - Nosila, 2009-11-05: 00:24:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: an-eck-dohn-tul-ist

Sentence: for every hair brained sceme i came up with, grandpa had a story that would convince me to forget about it...he was a master anecdontalist

Etymology: anecdote, don't

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COMMENTS:

Clever anecdote! I hope you had a doting grandma, to counter-balance your donting grandpa. - wordmeister, 2007-04-18: 02:54:00

could be a long anecdonta list - galwaywegian, 2007-04-18: 05:10:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ill/us/tray/shun/jist

Sentence: Her dad was the ultimate illustrationgist - he reduced every conversation to taking a walk down memory lane

Etymology: illustration (example) + gist (meaning)

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COMMENTS:

Ooh, this is an interesting spin on the definition. - playdohheart, 2007-04-18: 07:37:00

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Created by: patb

Pronunciation: dis-fay-bull

Sentence: Roger used disfables about his childhood to discourage his children. It worked

Etymology: dis + fable + disable

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: fish-stor-ee-un

Sentence: My dad, the dontor, was a great fishstorian, luring me away from any prospect by telling tales of "back in the day" when he chose that option.

Etymology: fish story, historian

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COMMENTS:

very clever! - wordmeister, 2007-04-19: 04:14:00

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: ăn'ĭk -dŏt'ə-fīl

Sentence: I try to have logical conversations with people who don't read, but they are always such anecdotophiles. They never have any sources for information, just nebulous myths and stories.

Etymology: anecdote and phile (New Latin -philus, from Greek -philos, beloved, dear, from philos, beloved, loving.)

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Created by: paperhoard

Pronunciation: foe-is-towrick

Sentence: When Jim was confronted with the elevated electric bill, he went into a a fauxistoric rampage babbling about human beings being used as batteries...

Etymology: faux + history

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: babel - ojik

Sentence: Cecil's usual babblogic behavior befuddled even the most intelligent person. He was a babblegic in the truest sense in that he could expound a subject for hours and you came away not understanding the point of anything he had said.

Etymology: babble (say or speak incoherently), logic

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: rem-i-nan-i-ty

Sentence: Her dad's constant reminanity drove her to the brink of insanity. She couldn't wait to graduate from school to get away from it. Then one day after she was grown and he was gone, she realized to her horror that she was beginning to do the same thing to her kids. "The bunk stops here!" she thought, and immediately stopped talking.

Etymology: reminisce: to recollect and tell of past experiences or events + inanity: something empty of meaning or sense; lack of intelligence or imagination

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