Verboticism: Jerkaholics

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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Neighsaybor
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nāsābər
Sentence: Ray lives next to a neighsaybor. The rules in his community say that you need to get permission from the improvement committee before taking on any exterior home improvement project. With Ray’s ”buddy” on the committee, nothing ever gets done. The group once tried to change the one-member veto rule but they were vetoed.
Etymology: naysayer (somebody who says no, denies) + neighbor (a person living near or next door to the speaker or person referred to)
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COMMENTS:
oops! sorry. should have read before I submitted :( - galwaywegian, 2010-09-28: 09:38:00
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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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Naboobs
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: NAY-bubes
Sentence: Coretta 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: Play on the word 'nabob' (A person of wealth and prominence)
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COMMENTS:
Good word there Mustang :) I was waiting to read what kind of sentence or story you would write with the "Naboobs" of the neighborhood! lol, Very good description! - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-17: 01:43:00
Very titillating word, there, Mr M! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-17: 03:14:00
Hey Deborah...uh huh...there's boobs, and then there's boobs. Not all of them are rednecks. ;-) - Mustang, 2009-03-17: 06:18:00
Thanks Metro...My cup runneth over..... - Mustang, 2009-03-17: 06:19:00
There goes the naboobhood! - readerwriter, 2009-03-17: 07:09:00
There goes the naboobhood! - readerwriter, 2009-03-17: 07:09:00
got a big laugh out of how you took a snobby word like nabob and brought it down to the boob level! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 13:57:00
Mustang, what a good Mammory you have for words! You get a lot of support here, too. - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:26:00
Got the idea off the boob tube....lots of good mammories from watching that. - Mustang, 2009-03-18: 02:30:00
Like your word Mustang, these comments rate an A+ ... especially for being funny! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 13:00:00
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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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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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Lifenvy
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: li-fen-vie
Sentence: Cam and Sylvia took their lifenviousness too far when they parked their truck on Trish's front lawn. She's never home to take care of her property anyway and she won't even notice it there.
Etymology: life + envy
Neighbores
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nābôrz
Sentence: John found the people next door complete neighbores. What little personality they had is hyper-directed into lawn care. They have gone so far as to install electric fences to keep squirrels from walking on their perfectly-manicured yard. Squirrels in the trees you ask? Absolutely not! No trees! Trees are far too random in the way they grow and all that leaf dropping just won't do. Grass clipped to 5/8 inch and a few carefully-selected flowers are all they'll tolerate.
Etymology: neighbor (a person living near or next door to the speaker or person referred to) + bores (people whose talk or behavior is dull and uninteresting)
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)
Skullandcrossjones
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: skul and CROS joanz
Sentence: No matter how hard anyone on the court tried, they could never match the beauty and perfection of the Jones family's property. This was due to the fact that both Mr. and Mrs. Jones were retired landscapers, and each spent at least two hours a day working in the yard. To top it off, they went for walks each weekend in which they pointed to various sections of their neighbors' yards and whispered to one another, apparently identifying flaws and not bothering to conceal their disapproval. Some of the court's residents had nearly killed themselves trying to keep up with the Joneses, to no avail. The neighborhood atmosphere became so toxic that after a while, everyone started referring to them as "Mr. and Mrs. Skullandcrossjones."
Etymology: Jones, as in "keeping up with the Joneses" + skull-and-crossbones (a picture of the human skull above two crossed bones, now used as a warning of poison, danger or death)
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COMMENTS:
jollyroger over and out! - Nosila, 2010-09-28: 19:44:00
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Goadneighbours
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: GOAD NAY bores
Sentence: My good neighbours had become goadneighbours, and now I was wishing for good fences. It all began when Mike got a promotion. He and his wife bought an SUV that they were always washing, waxing, and admiring while they took pictures of each other standing by it. They landscaped their yard, put in a pool, and built a sundeck. But everything was for show and pictures, and now the rest of us neighbours were tired of them harassing us. Suddenly our yards weren’t good enough, our houses needed painting and we were bringing down the neighbourhood. Any more goadneigbourly advice on how to take care of my weeds on my lawn or the cracks in my driveway, and I might just build that fence.
Etymology: GOAD: to keep irritating or annoying someone until they react GOOD NEIGHBOURS
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COMMENTS:
Puntastic verbotomy! So on the definition, too. Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 14:37:00
You goad, Girl! - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:28:00
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