Verboticisms

Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: piss/tor/ee/an

Sentence: I don't believe grandpa really lived in a cardboard box and only had stale bread and water when he was a child. He must be a pisstorian!

Etymology: Piss (as in taking the piss) + historian

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Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: \ˈflash\ yak\

Sentence: "Kill me now" little Lisa thought as her Dad spew forth another reason she couldnt get a new computer whilst having another flashyak.

Etymology: Combination of Flash meaning to appear suddenly :an idea flashes into her mind or to move with great speed and Yak: to talk persistently to chatter

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COMMENTS:

good one! - wordmeister, 2008-06-26: 11:02:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: flaw jik

Sentence: When Vanessa asked her father for a new computer, he tried to diminish its value. His flawgic was not understanding that in today's Internet world, his daughter could easily draw her own conclusions, based on accurate data. His daughter was not a silicone chip off the old block!

Etymology: Flaw (add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective) & Logic (reasoned and reasonable judgment)

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Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: re-dile-on-get

Sentence: every time i mention rings, or chappels, my boyfriend becomes a redialongate and tells me about how silver and gold are really a conspiracy

Etymology: redirect + language + elongate

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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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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: MEN-tore-KLACKS-un-ITE

Sentence: Discourajerk Exampalook! Your theory can’t be right. I erred that way And have become a…. Mentorklaxonite.

Etymology: MENTOR: a trusted counselor or guide; Latin, from Greek Mentōr (1616).....KLAXON: trade name used for an electrically operated horn or extremely raucus, attention-getting warning signal, often disorienting.....-ITE: adherent, devotee, or one who espouses a particular philosophy; noun suffix from Latin -ita, -ites, from Greek -itēs

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http://vos.ucsb.edu/ - metrohumanx, 2009-11-04: 04:16:00

Ignore the comment above. http://onemansblog.com/2006/12/01/a-compendium-of-150-monty-python-sketches/ - metrohumanx, 2009-11-04: 06:44:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation:

Sentence: dad was such a nostalgit it was difficult to believe he'd ever had lead in his pencil

Etymology: nostalgic cit

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Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: rang-rang

Sentence: There was a sign around my dead cat's neck. It said, "Meow." I have not seen Krebbs since. Nonetheless, I sense that he was my karass. If he was, he served it as a wrang-wrang.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: lah-men-tor

Sentence: My lamentor warned me that if I didn't stop indulging my dark chocolate passion, I would end up as he used to be - a depraved chocoholic, selling my plasma and collecting discarded aluminum cans in order to get my next "fix".

Etymology: lament, mentor

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COMMENTS:

you lead a very colourful life purple - I always get a chuckle out of your sentences - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-18: 13:33:00

Oh dear. There goes the last vestige of normalcy I was clinging on to. By the way, don't bother searching Ebay for cow manure to feed your purple artichokes - apparently, cows don't poop anymore because there are no listings. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-18: 15:10:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: anti/dote/er

Sentence: Joe was an antidoter who always had an antidote from his wonderful past for his young nieces and nephews as to why they should not to do anything. Because Joe was an antidoter, his family called him Uncle Don't.

Etymology: ANTIDOTER - noun - from ANTI (a person who is opposed to a particular practice, or action) + ANECDOTE (a short account of a particular incident, or event of an interesting, or amusing nature, often biographical)

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COMMENTS:

Good word, his wife must be an Auntidoter! - Nosila, 2008-06-25: 21:49:00

Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-26: 07:01:00

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