Verboticisms

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: 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: 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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COMMENTS:

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: jonobo

Pronunciation: diss - qualify - fighter ;)

Sentence: My dad was the hardest Dissqualifighter in the field.

Etymology: Diss (disrespect) + Disqualify + fighter = Dissqualifighter

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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: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: nik-uhl-oj-ik

Sentence: Quaxor IV had to check his Gygle brain chip to determine what his great great grandfather meant by "Back in my day that coke cost a nickel!!", Gygle informed him that it was an obsolete form of currency used back in his elder's heyday but it didn't say how the boy should interpret the strange nickelogic.

Etymology: Nickel - Logic

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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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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: 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: 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: 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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