Verboticism: Struggner
DEFINITION: v., To strain with all your might in a desperate effort to open a sealed container, such as a jar of pickles. n., A small jar which cannot be opened.
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Strainjary
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation: strain-jury
Sentence: He developed a strainjary trying to open the jar.
Etymology:
Vlasikinetropate
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Vlas-uh-kin-uh-TROH-payt
Sentence: Scooter loved Granny Mabel's homemade preserves, but some of them had been canned so long ago that he often failed to vlasikinetropate well enough to get them open without resorting to hammers or screwdrivers.
Etymology: Vlasic: a brand of pickles that come in impenetrable vacuum-sealed jars + Kinetic: a visible expenditure of energy + Tropism: motion derived from stimulus, such as hunger + Pate: referring to the forehead area which reddens and sweats during this process.
Torqueture
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tork chewer
Sentence: The torqueture was all the more painful because he didn't even like branston pickle.
Etymology: torque, torture
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COMMENTS:
maybe he should dill-iberate more when he chooses his pickles - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-30: 12:15:00
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Dillcapitate
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dill/cap/i/tate
Sentence: I will dillcapitate you Dave screamed at the pickle jar - even if my eyes remain bloodshot for a week.
Etymology: dill (as in pickle) + decapitate + cap
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COMMENTS:
Brilliant: now part of my vocabulary. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-26: 18:06:00
Very good word - TJayzz, 2008-09-27: 05:32:00
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Twiststosterone
Created by: svnfsvn
Pronunciation: twist tos terone
Sentence: my twisterone wasnt enough to impress my girlfriend.
Etymology: to twist testosterone
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COMMENTS:
Perfect! - ErWenn, 2007-10-31: 01:11:00
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Torqueture
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: torrk chewer
Sentence: The torqueture caused the strain of four muscles and at least two little pickles
Etymology: torque torture
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COMMENTS:
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-26: 15:02:00
The root of this word must be Torquemada, the Grand Torturer of the Spanish Inquisition! - Nosila, 2008-09-26: 20:24:00
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Ajarafar
Created by: November
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He could just as well stop trying to twist and shout, this was one of those definite ajarafar's.
Etymology: (the obvious a Jar) Ajar adv. & adj. Partially opened: left the door ajar. + A far adj., farther or further, farthest or furthest. Being at considerable distance; remote: a far country. Going back a considerable extent in time: the far past. More distant than another: the far corner. Extensive or lengthy: a far trek.
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COMMENTS:
or Ajarafarce Where the ending is also the word *farce • noun 1 a comic dramatic work or genre using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including ludicrously improbable situations. 2 an absurd event. - November, 2008-09-30: 08:43:00
Wow. - metrohumanx, 2008-09-30: 14:36:00
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Prostatastrain
Created by: justjenny420
Pronunciation: Prostate-a-strain
Sentence: Joe cursed at the pickle jar that caused his prostratastrain difficulty.
Etymology: When one blows out the prostrate due to over straining while trying to open a tightly sealed jar.
Convolid
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: CON-voh-lid
Sentence: Mack convolidded his body until he heard the popping release. But examining the pickles he discovered that the noise had come from his elbow.
Etymology: Convo(lute) + lid