Verboticisms

Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Remin-iss-no-senz

Sentence: When Laura asked her Father for a new pair of trainers he automatically started to reminisnosense about when he, as a young lad had to have his brothers hand-me-downs and that there was still plenty of wear in her older sisters tatty old trainers that in Laura's mind were only fit for the bin.

Etymology: Reminisce(to think fondly of days gone by) + nonsense(Rubbish, to make no sense) = Reminisnosense

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: the/artful/dred/jur

Sentence: Theartfuldredger is the most unpopular guest at a party.

Etymology: the artful dodger + dredge (as in up from the past)

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: re-PRUFE-fool

Sentence: Gran is a veteran reproofool. Every time my cell phone rings, he starts in about "Walking 20 miles to school, uphill both ways..."

Etymology: reproof, fool

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: man-ik-doe-tul

Sentence: In order to get the upperhand in this argument he was going to need to provide some pretty persuasive manicdotal evidence

Etymology: manic, anecdote

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: ass/in/time

Sentence: John knew he had officially become his father when he told the kids, "You think cleaning your room before you go to the mall is bad? Try getting up at 2, feeding chickens, milking cows, chopping wood, birthin' sheep AND making your own shoes out of the hide you laid out weeks before THEN walking 4 miles to school everyday! THEN come back and tell me again that your life sucks!" Yes, he has become an asintime just like his dad.

Etymology: as: derivative of ass:a pompous fool. "in time" (self explanatory)

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Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: E-go-dough-t

Sentence: For fear of his horrible stories,the youth of the family stayed away from their egodote, great-grandfather.

Etymology: Ego-self dote, from anecdote.

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: back-in-the-days-er

Sentence: Bill was such a backinthedayser with his irrelevant stories about his youth growing up in the "school of hard knocks."

Etymology: some moron talking about "back in the days" when things were better than they can ever be again

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: tan/jent/van/jel/ist

Sentence: My sixth grade teacher was a tangentvangelist who answered every question with a reference to the black plague

Etymology: tangent + evangelist

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COMMENTS:

Probably the best use of "evangelist" outside occult circles (or should that be pentagrams?). - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-18: 12:14:00

Good word. Also made me think of that SNL sketch, "In a vannn down by the rivvver". That guy was a tangentvangelist if anyone ever was. - playdohheart, 2007-04-18: 15:09:00

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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: 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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