Verboticisms

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: petaj

Pronunciation: ab-swerve-ist

Sentence: The repertory group had come to be known as the Theatre of the Abswerve. Since Eugene, a playwright, kept banging on about his past productions, they could not settle on a script.

Etymology: absurd, swerve

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: duuh - bate

Sentence: When I told my brother that I was going to take a little time to travel across the Midwest, he launched into a duhbate about how unsafe it was and roving bands of renegade rodeo stars that wander the streets. He told me he had spent some time there during his own rodeo days and he had first hand experience; i know better- that he's never left the New York Metro area.

Etymology: duh + debate

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COMMENTS:

i wish i could say that this wasn't based on a true story... - libertybelle, 2011-03-24: 10:14:00

Love it...sounds like your brother is a rodeo clown! - Nosila, 2011-03-25: 00:45:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: ID-ee-uht-uhm

Sentence: Alex unwittingly became an idiotom as he trailed off on a tangent of how he was submerged in spaghetti at camp back in the day.

Etymology: idio- (individual) + idiot (a boor) + idiom (peculiar speech)

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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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