Verboticism: Whoreticulturists
DEFINITION: n. Annoying neighbors who spend endless hours mowing their lawns, painting their fences, washing their cars, and browbeating you because you have a life. v. To express disapproval for someone's lifestyle.
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Jerkaholics
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: jurk-uh-haw-lik
Sentence: Nicky lives next to jerkaholics. They are constantly mowing and trimming out in their yards. Clearly it is a conspiracy to make her look lazy. To make matters worse they dump their clippings in her overgrown lawn.
Etymology: jerk (a contemptibly naive) + workaholic (a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits)
Yardsell
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: yard cell
Sentence: My neighbors were constantly gardening and telling me that I needed to do the same. I am sick of their constant yardsell.
Etymology: YARD, SELL being a play on yard sale. Also a play on hard sell. YARD - the area of land immediately surrounding a house, often covered with grass or landscaping. SELL - persuade somebody of something: to make an idea or proposal acceptable to somebody. Cell - a confining and very limiting place.
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COMMENTS:
A perfect lawn IS the sign of a sick mind. Leave the Aspen leaves where they lie. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-17: 03:12:00
Good combination of ideas. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:51:00
Good word...as metro says, leave the Aspen leaves where they lie and you will be more Poplar! Some people just Birch and Beech all day to get attention. If they want to Spruce up your yard, they should come and do it! - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:23:00
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Naysaybours
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: nay say burz
Sentence: The final straw was when the naysaybours complained that her underwear was too loud
Etymology: neighbours naysayers
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COMMENTS:
Good one...was she from Nickeragua? - Nosila, 2010-09-29: 00:42:00
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Neighbores
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nay borz
Sentence: Alice lived in an average urban housing tract of single family dwellings. She lived next door to that one couple on every block who spends every spare second out there tending their yard. These neighbores used scissors to eradicate every long single blade of grass. Their yard looked unnatural in its manicured state and even the bugs avoided it. Too bad they treated Alice and her country garden home with such disdain. They thought she was a hoe...
Etymology: Neighbors (persons who live near each other) & Bores (a person who evokes boredom;make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool)
Houndskeepers
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: hownds + keep + urs
Sentence: Morrie's neighbors were real houndskeepers. They spent their entire life grooming their yard and house so that it was a "showplace". Because Morrie did not choose to spend all of his free time in the same pursuits, his neighbors continuously derided him and made snide comments about the condition of his lawn.
Etymology: hound and groundskeepers >> Hound (To urge insistently; nag) groundskeepers (Groundskeeping is the activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes)
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COMMENTS:
So apt to the definition. Super etymology and verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 13:59:00
I agree with silveryaspen! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 20:08:00
I agree with KateinKorea! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:51:00
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Moanses
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: /mohn-siz/
Sentence: Charlotte pulled out of the garage to find the Christmas lights torn down to the point that they were dragging through her hair. She clawed at the string of bulbs as she nearly ran the convertible into the mailbox. Looks like the Moanses were trying to give her another hint.
Etymology: Play on words of "Joneses", as in "keeping up with the" and moan, to low with dismay or pain
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COMMENTS:
Super funny! Truly a great word for complaining neighbors. Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 14:08:00
Funny! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:38:00
Sounds like our neighbour, Mona Lott! - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:32:00
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Hoodhogs
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: hood-hawgz
Sentence: Patience had endured enough. She was exhausted from the nightly raids by her nebby neighbors, Neil and Nosy Parker. They pruned, they plowed, they picked. What deadheads! So what if her dog peed all over her lawn--it was her lawn, wasn't it? And the world needed more nitrogen! Last night was the last straw. Patience had been awakened by the sound of the duo flooding her yard with water. She stood at her window and watched in astonishment. Obviously these hoodhogs were trying to dilute the urine. Then they began to root around, scraping up the dead grass, quietly bickering over whether it should be to a depth of one-quarter or one-half inch. In the morning she had found a note on her back door saying, "Now you may sow replacement grass."
Etymology: From HOOD, slang/contraction for neighborhood + HOGS, meaning greedy or selfish, also a play on pig, derogatory for police
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COMMENTS:
No doubt distant cousins of hedgeghogs? - Mustang, 2009-03-17: 22:57:00
All that grass and not a sharp blade in sight when you need it! - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:29:00
Hahahaha! Good word! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:49:00
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Lifespurn
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: lie-f-sp-ern
Sentence: After many years of censuring her neighbours, the old woman finally reached the end of her lifespurn when she collapsed midcriticism on the decorative border that had whipped her into a judgmental frenzy.
Etymology: life + spurn + lifespan
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COMMENTS:
Admire how well you put your sentence, your thoughts, and your word together. Very well done! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 14:19:00
Good word and sentence. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:41:00
Nothing like having a garden to die for... - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:31:00
Concise and excellent! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:50:00
thanks for the nice comments - petaj, 2009-03-18: 07:36:00
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Naboobs
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: NAY-bubes
Sentence: Loretta thought of her neighbors as naboobs, people of some wealth and circumstance who who had nothing better to do than improve their properties and their lives while she sunbathed, partied and did her best to just look pretty.
Etymology: Use of 'boob' (dufus, crude person) Play on the word 'nabob' (A person of wealth and prominence)