Verboticism: Hornicate

'What's with this chick?'

DEFINITION: v. To sit in your car and repeatedly honk your horn, so that your passengers, who are waiting inside the house, know you are ready to go. n. A person who uses a car horn as an multi-purpose communication tool.

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Irritoot

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: eer - eh -toot

Sentence: Lester always managed to irritoot all of my neighbors. Everytime he came to pick me up, he sat in my driveway beeping his horn every 30 seconds. Needless to say, I don't have him pick me up anymore and because he had a bad habit of repeating everything he said over and over, I seldom see him either......he was just so irritooting and irritating!!!

Etymology: irritate and toot

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COMMENTS:

this made me laugh - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-01: 13:41:00

No Les no more! - Nosila, 2009-05-01: 18:38:00

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Toottweet

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: toottweet

Sentence: Jeremy has his own form of e-communications. Texting,Twitter? Not for him. When he wants to summon his girlfriend he tweets her with his car horn. And he expects her to appear toottweet.

Etymology: toot (to sound or blow a horn, whistle, or wind instrument) + tweet (to post on Twitter)a play on toot sweet (Quickly, immediately, at once. This word is a corruption of the French ‘tout de suite’, which literally means 'all at once')

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Littlebeaubeep

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: litlbōbēp

Sentence: Littlebeaubeep is stealing sleep, He's honking for his girlfriend; If she'd come out, The neighbors would shout, And no one would have to hurt them.

Etymology: Little Bo Peep (A nursery rhyme about a girl and her sheep)+ beau (a boyfriend or male admirer) + beep (a short, high-pitched sound emitted by electronic equipment or a vehicle horn)

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COMMENTS:

mrskellyscl love it! - mrskellyscl, 2009-05-01: 05:31:00

excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-01: 13:42:00

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Cacophannoy

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: ca-cau-phan-noy

Sentence: Every morning at 7 Michelle's father would create cacophannoy for the neighbors as he waited in his driveway for her to finish her grooming rituals before school.

Etymology: cacophony: blare, noise, din + annoy: to irritate or disturb

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COMMENTS:

also carcophony or carcophannoy as well!! - mweinmann, 2009-05-01: 11:39:00

super combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-01: 13:38:00

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Rudetoot

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: rewd-tewt

Sentence: It doesn't bother me so much that my neighbor gets picked up for work by the ambulance every day at 5 am, what really gets me is that her partner insists on summoning her with a rudetoot consisting of every siren for at least 10 minutes.

Etymology: rude + toot - also a play on rooty-toot.

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COMMENTS:

libertybelle oops, i didn't see that i came so close to someone else's word. I try to create before i read. Sorry! - libertybelle, 2009-05-04: 09:14:00

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Carmunicator

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kar mew nik ay tor

Sentence: The instalation of a novelty hooter in his car turned him from a carmunicator to a carmoonicator

Etymology: communicator, car

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Toottootcommon

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: toōttoōtkämən

Sentence: When Glen pulls up to pick up Jill, he acts like Tutankhamen, too good to get out of his custom chariot and ring the doorbell. Jill’s dad thinks of Glen as toottootcommon, an all-too-typical teenager with a all-too-noisy car horn. He hopes this is the only type of horn(y) he has to deal with.

Etymology: toottoot (a short, sharp sound made by a horn, trumpet, or similar instrument) + common (occurring, found, or done often; prevalent) a play on Tutankhamen - Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty

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COMMENTS:

De Nile ain't just a river in Egypt,as my Mummie would say! - Nosila, 2010-11-18: 21:57:00

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Aggravimpatient

DrWebsterIII

Created by: DrWebsterIII

Pronunciation: ag're - im pa shent

Sentence: Don Juan couldn't wait for no one, obviously his aggravimpatience, was getting the best of him, and probably to everyone else in earshot

Etymology: aggravate + impatient

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COMMENTS:

hyperborean But he could wait for someone. Fierce! - hyperborean, 2009-05-03: 21:14:00

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Rudeetootee

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: roo-dee-too-tee

Sentence: My father never let me go out a second time with a rudeetootee.

Etymology: RUDE + TOOT

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COMMENTS:

mrskellyscl terrific! - mrskellyscl, 2009-05-01: 09:39:00

love it - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-01: 13:42:00

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Claxonator

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: clax-ehn-ayt-ehr

Sentence: Rufus was an ardent and often obnoxious claxonator who could always be depended upon to use his car horn as a signaling device, rather than just going to the door to alert folks that he's ready to roll.

Etymology: 'Claxon' (v. to sound loudly; - of car horns) with suffix '-ator' to denote one who 'does something'

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