Verboticism: Medicreep
DEFINITION: n. The feelings of apprehension which occur when undergoing a medical examination. v. To feel discomfort while a medical professional pokes and prods at the weak points of your body.
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Novication
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: no-vi-cay-shun
Sentence: Al felt extreme novication as he sat in the dentists chair, with the dentist fighting his tongue to get his instruments back!
Etymology: Play on popular numbing drug novacaine
Docshock
Created by: memyselfandbo
Pronunciation: dahk-shahk
Sentence: While at the dentist's office, Louie felt a surge of docshock when he saw the very shiny, very pointy instrument headed towards his mouth. Fortunately, the dental hygienist recognized the symptoms and slapped Louis upside the head to snap him out of it. "Thanks," he mumbled as he rubbed his throbbing head.
Etymology: Doctor: a licensed medical practitioner. Shock: something that jars the mind or emotions.
Hippocalyptic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hip pok a lip tik
Sentence: It was with a hippocalyptic feeling that Henry went to the only doctor in town. Being a newcomer, Henry was unaware that most locals did not see old Doc Sawyer Bones. They went to the City Hospital instead. Henry's pain and discomfort at going to a new doctor was only overshadowed by the extreme abdominal pains which had attacked him for the past few hours. It was only when he was counting backwards from 100 that he spied the certificate on the wall...Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine. He just hoped that he'd not wake up and find himself neutered!
Etymology: Hippocratic (an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates...first do no harm!) & Apocalypic (prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom;dread)
Toothscary
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: too - th - skaree
Sentence: Georgia went to see the toothscary today... She felt sharp objects hit her gumline while a pair of beady eyes looked down from above. There was a tremendous scraping and then whirring and ringing in her ears while she was blinded by an intense light.....She wondered whether this had ben an alien abdunction but she felt too whoozzy to remember much.
Etymology: tooth, scary, not the tooth fairy!!
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COMMENTS:
Ah! Fun etomology. I like your verbotomy fairy much! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-16: 12:48:00
Driven to extraction...good one! - Nosila, 2009-04-16: 21:09:00
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Supainful
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: so pain ful
Sentence: “Lay back and relax” really meant, it’s going to be supainful! She fought the urge to cry out in pain at the first jab!
Etymology: From: SUPINE and PAINFUL. To lay on your back and feel so much pain and discomfort that you feel like saying: "It's so painful".
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COMMENTS:
Right on the definition, easy to remember and to say. Supa Duper! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-16: 21:43:00
I agree it's quick and to the point! I like it! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-17: 03:42:00
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Dentribulation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dentribyəlāshən
Sentence: The dental office that Michael goes to has all the modern amenities to deal with any dental issue he might come in with. What they have trouble dealing with is his dentribulations. He will sit in the lobby furtively looking over ages-old magazines dreading THAT moment - when the nurse sticks her head through the door and calls his name. Michael's inner adult tells him to relax and trust that he will be taken care of. His inner child is kicking, screaming, scratching and biting. The staff hates it when his inner child gets out. Michael has also found that feigning deafness or amnesia doesn't work very well.
Etymology: dental (of or relating to the teeth) + tribulation (a cause of great trouble or suffering)
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2009-04-16: 23:48:00
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Stethonope
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: ste the nop
Sentence: As soon as Kimberly saw the doctor lurching toward her from the doorway, she felt adrenaline and stethonope surge through her anxious body.
Etymology: Stethoscope + Nope
Bugbareassment
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: buhg-behr-ehs-mint
Sentence: Dr. Umay Trustem, a truly gentle man, was always amused by the bugbareassment he caused in his male patients when he asked them to bend over and cough.
Etymology: Making BUGBEAR, an object of dread = BUGBARE + ASS (pardon me) a blend with EMBARRASSMENT
Medicreep
Created by: EpicButCrazy
Pronunciation: med-ick-reap
Sentence: This dentist really medicreeps me out. I'd swear he deliberately drags out his poking in your mouth, just for the sick pleasure of it!
Etymology: medical + creep
Trepidenticious
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: trep-uh-den-TISH-yuss
Sentence: As her appointment for a dental exam and major cleaning grew nearer Wanda once again felt the severe tremors of her unreasonable trepidenticious reactions.
Etymology: Blend of 'trepidation' (tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation), 'dental' and the suffix '-ious (Having; having the qualities of)
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COMMENTS:
Very nicely blended. Right on the definition. Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-16: 12:51:00
Good one, mustang...I guess her mind began to Wanda! - Nosila, 2009-04-16: 21:14:00
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