Verboticism: Asstressment
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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Asstressment
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: a-stress-ment
Sentence: I need some tranquillisers to get over the asstressment, but I really don't want to go through another asstressment just to get a script.
Etymology: assessment + stress
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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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
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)
Toothordare
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tooth or der
Sentence: Each time Wendell went to see his family dentist, Dr. Payne, he felt like he was playing toothordare. Just because Dr.Payne was in his eighties, was cross-eyed and had shaky hands, somehow Wendell felt weak and vulnerable. Dr.Payne also had a sense of humor and never failed to mention that he had a lot of pull or was trying not to look down in the mouth. His family had gone to Dr. Payne for years, and all just because Wendell's Granny had dated him. The old gal had always called Dr. Payne, brace yourself, The Leader of the Plaque!
Etymology: Play on Truth or Dare (a game where you must tell the truth or suffer the consequences)
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COMMENTS:
Guess which song will play in my head all day? Another super sentence with a fabulous last line. Tooth to tell, your verbotomy shines like a polished tooth! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-16: 12:46:00
Hilarious! "Dr. Payne" -! - splendiction, 2009-04-16: 21:26:00
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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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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
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.
Probaphobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pro ba fo beeya
Sentence: Denny's fear of doctors and dentists was so extreme, it was actually a bad case of probaphobia. Many thought it went back to that fateful night when aliens beamed him up for some scientific rect-reation.
Etymology: Probe (to be poked or proddedexamine physically with or as if with a probe) & Phobia (irrational fear, anxiety over something)
Medicangst
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: med-ick-ang-st
Sentence: Her medicangst heightened when she witnessed out of the corner of her eye, her dental surgeon taking a long haul of an inhale of laughing gas just prior to her wisdom teeth extraction.
Etymology: medical + angst
