Category: Verboticisms

DEFINITION: v. tr., To swap your lousy lunch for a way tastier one found in the shared office fridge. n., A lunch which is borrowed from a coworker and will not be returned until after it has been consumed.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Refrigeraider: /re-FRIDJ-er-rade-er/ Geoff was a notorious refrigeraider and had no qualms at all about taking a coworkers tasty looking lunch and leaving his stale sandwich and old piece of fruit in it’s place. Etymology: Blend of refrigerator and raider. Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Refrigeraider:

hooterbug, 2008-10-02: 08:40:00
Perfecto!

zxvasdf, 2008-10-02: 09:33:00
For some reason I envision Tusken Raiders standing in front of the fridge, scratching their cowled heads, saying “Where the hell did my lunch get to? I was really looking forward to that boiled Jawa.”

Nosila, 2008-10-02: 22:16:00
Great word!

lumina, 2008-10-03: 00:07:00
Gets my vote! 🙂

Supgrade: /sup-grade/ The trick to improving your lunch without getting caught is to supgrade modestly.
Etymology: sup + upgrade Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Supgrade:

TJayzz, 2008-10-02: 14:49:00
Good word

Swapslop: /Swop-slop/ When Peter discovered what his wife had packed him for lunch, he let out a huge sigh. He realised that she had been trying out her new recipes on him again and this time had surpassed herself by creating some inedible looking mess that could not be identified. He then had the brilliant idea of going to office fridge and proceeded to swapslop his lunch for something that resembled food. No-one would ever guess it was him as long as he kept his mouth shut. Etymology: Swap(an act of exchanging one thing for another) + Slop(unappetizing semi-liquid food) = Swapslop Created by: TJayzz.

Comments on Swapslop:

Jabberwocky, 2008-10-02: 13:28:00
funny

Exvictual: /ex vict ual/ He took one look in his lunch bag and found that he had been exvictualized. Fair’s only fair, he thought when he peeked into the various containers scattered in the refrigerator for his very own exvictual. Etymology: Exchange (to trade) & Evict (to expel) & Victual (food) Created by: zxvasdf.

Comments on Exvictual:

Nosila, 2008-10-02: 22:27:00
Way too many good words today…

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DEFINITION: v. intr., To create the impression that you are deathly ill and represent a potentially lethal bio-hazard risk, so that your boss will ask you to “take the next couple of days off”. n., A faked illness.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Plaguegiarize: /playg-jeea-rise/ Whenever Dan felt the urge to spend a lazy day relaxing on the beach he would plaguegiarize the current circulating virus and call in sick. Etymology: plague + plagiarize Created by: Jabberwocky.

Pseudomonia: /soodo-mone-yuh/ After two days of fake hacking and coughing at meetings, Congolia finally convinced her boss she was too ill to work, but Congolia smiled to herself as she left the office, knowing it was really a case of pseudomonia. Etymology: pseudo (false) + pneumonia (respiratory illness) Created by: LoftyDreamer.

Comments on Pseudomonia:

Nosila, 2008-10-01: 21:58:00
Love that Congolia!

Expediadotcon: /ex speedy yah dot kon/ Mary had a knack for getting additional vacation time every year. By faking dreadful symptoms and acting better than most Oscar winners, she was able to fool her boss into believing she was at death’s doorstep and highly infectious. She definitely put the “con” in contagious. After she had set the stage, she flu off to exotic locales and enjoyed an expediadotcon vacation. One of these days, her boss would wise up and figure out that when Typhoid Mary came back from these illnesses, she had a tan. When that happened, she’d lose her job and she would only be able to afford to vacation in Puerto Backyardo! Etymology: expedia.com(popular website for last minute cheaper vacations) & con (to deprive by deceit;hustle) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Expediadotcon:

Jabberwocky, 2008-10-01: 10:59:00
love Peurto Backyardo

metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:29:00
🙂 !

OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-01: 18:13:00
Good word

Mediscamvacation: /med-eh-scam-vuh-KAY-shun/ For the third year in a row Bernard managed to play on the sympathy of his boss Viola, and wrangled a weeks paid vacation of sick leave by pulling yet another mediscamvaction gambit. Etymology: Blend of medical, scam, and vacation.
Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Mediscamvacation:

metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:40:00
That’s what I”M talking about. More! More!

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DEFINITION: v. tr., To drop food on the floor, then pick it up and eat it, before anyone else can say “it’s too dirty”. n., A tasty treat which has been accidentally dropped, then quickly salvaged and savored.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Foodianslip: /food-ee-an-slip
/ At the party, Joe just reacted with another foodianslip when he dropped his cake and then immediately proceeded to get down on all-fours to lick the icing off the rug. Etymology: FOODIANSLIP – noun – FOOD + FREUDIAN SLIP

Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Foodianslip:

OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-01: 18:15:00
Good one

Scoffdrop: /Sk-off-dr-op/ Tim was skilled in the art of scoffdrop, he would spend hours trying to persuade his friends that any food that had accidentally fallen to the floor was perfectly safe to eat, as long as you follow the golden rule. The food must be eaten within five seconds so that any germs do not have a chance to move in on it. Etymology: Scoff(to eat quickly or greedily) ORIGIN Dutch from Schoft ‘meal’ + Drop(to fall or cause to fall to the floor) = Scoffdrop Created by: TJayzz.

Comments on Scoffdrop:

metrohumanx, 2008-09-30: 14:18:00
Nice sentence, Tjayzz.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-30: 17:33:00
I like it.

Linoleumyum: /lyn-OLE-ee-yum-yum/ When any food was dropped on the floor anywhere near him Brandon showed that he was a mindless dolt where sanitation was concerned, as he considered those morsels to be freebie linoleumyums…
Etymology: Blend of linoleum and yumyum Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Linoleumyum:

yellowbird, 2008-09-30: 09:08:00
nice

Jabberwocky, 2008-09-30: 12:09:00
funny

Jabberwocky, 2008-09-30: 12:58:00
funny

artr, 2008-10-01: 16:23:00
I might have shortened it to Linoleyum so it sounds like the real word but plays with the spelling.

Upgrub: /UHP-gruhb/ Fastidiousness wasn’t one of Bob’s stronger points. And from the time when he was a drover on the Barcoo, and nearly had to eat a barcoo sandwich to survive, his philosophy was that if it was food, it was edible. So when any yumflot hit the floor, Bob quickly upgrubbed it.

Etymology: Blend of YUM & FLOT(sam): By analogy -when tasty food falls “overboard. Yum: yummy, tasty, scrumptious. UPGRUB: grub: “food” & vb: to forage. Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Upgrub:

Mustang, 2008-09-30: 14:16:00
good one

metrohumanx, 2008-09-30: 14:27:00
Yumflot upgrub never ever foodsnub.

Jabberwocky, 2008-09-30: 15:08:00
funny

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DEFINITION: n. The unexpected moment of horror when you realize that you’re sharing your bathroom shower with thousands of rapidly replicating fungi, commonly known as orange slime. v. intr. To be colonized by orange slime.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Epiphamuck: /iˈpif-É™-muck/ Sally was going about her normal morning routine when she an epiphamuck moment. Perhaps it was the sip of coffee she gulped before she climbed into her shower or the boring line-up on TV the night before that precipitated a full night’s sleep, she was actually awake this morning. She wondered why she would have bought an orange shower curtain that didn’t go with the other accessories in the bathroom. It was only when she noticed that the orange didn’t stop at the edge of the curtain that she had a major case of orange-slime heebie-jeebies. Etymology: epiphany (a moment of sudden revelation or insight) + muck (dirt, rubbish, or waste matter) Created by: artr.

Comments on Epiphamuck:

metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 17:07:00
I remember the heebie-jeebies.
Where did the nitty-gritty come from? That’s what I want to know. 🙂

OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-30: 17:44:00
Nice:in a grotesque way.

Mushgroom: /Mush-gr-oom/ Sally decided the only way to get rid of her hangover from the previous nights pub crawl was a good scrub in the shower. Due to her condition she had forgotten to remove her contact lenses before she passed out. This lead to the discovery of a very unpleasant growth of mushgroom lurking in the corner of the shower tray. Being short sighted she had not spotted the disgusting gooey mess before and therefore it had grown to quite a size. Her piercing screams coud be heard for miles, the police arrived expecting to attend a homicide and could not believe it when Sally explained what had actually happened. Etymology: Mush(a soft wet pulpy mass) + Groom(to pay attention to personal hygiene and appearance) = Mushgrooom. Play on Mushroom(a spore producing body of a fungus) Created by: TJayzz.

Comments on Mushgroom:

zxvasdf, 2008-09-29: 12:46:00
I’m a sucker for puns. Mushgroom in muchrooms!

metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 16:46:00
Methinks there exists a link between excessive alcohol consumption and scary fungi, wouldn’t you agree, Watson?

Scumprised: /scum-prised/ Jenny was totally scumprised when the fungi lifted her right out of the shower and closed the curtains behind her.

Etymology: SCUMPRISED verb from SCUM (a film, or layer of foul bacterial matter) + SURPRISED (a sudden feeling of wonder, or astonishment)

Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Scumprised:

metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 16:44:00
Scumprised really packs a wallop. Why are wallops always “packed”? Metro

Mildewplicated: /mil doo plik kated/ When Jenny moved into her new apartment, she had made a spore-atic decision and decorated the bathroom in shades of orange and appricot. Because of the camouflage of orangy patterned shower curtain, she failed to notice the orange slime had mildewplicated itself on it. When she did notice, she felt smutty. Not only could she see them
but horrors, they could see her, naked, every morning. Not knowing what else to do,she molded a plan and phoned her boyfriend. “Rusty”, she purred into the phone, “I need you to come see me, because you are my fungi!” Etymology: mildew (a fungus that develops in humid environments) & duplicated (reproduced or copied) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Mildewplicated:

zxvasdf, 2008-09-29: 12:52:00
“…molded a plan…” fantastic! Puns galore.

metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 16:40:00
Wow! You really do your research, Nosmeister. Do you have a favorite fungus? I was once followed home by an orange slime mold. 🙂

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DEFINITION: v. tr., To strain with all your might, and twist with every muscle in your body including your eyes, tongue and toes in a desperate but perhaps futile effort to open a sealed container, such as a jar of pickles.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Dillcapitate: /dill-cap-i-tate/ 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 Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Dillcapitate:

OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-26: 18:06:00
Brilliant: now part of my vocabulary.

TJayzz, 2008-09-27: 05:32:00
Very good word

Jarchacha: /jahr-CHAH-chah/ Bob found himself totally in a jarchacha, when in front of Mrs Sanchez, who he wanted to emundorosape perfectly, even to her love of Latin-American dancing and body-building, he couldn’t, despite straining every muscle, open a jar of gerkins.

Etymology: Blend of Jar & Cha-Cha Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Jarchacha:

Jabberwocky, 2008-09-26: 15:00:00
funny

Machogotcha: /maw-choh-GOT-cha/ Having always considered himself to be very manly and virile, Hector’s self confidence suffered a major case of machogotcha when he failed at all attempts to open the jar of pickles at the office picnic. Etymology: Blend of ‘macho’ (an assertively virile, dominating, or domineering male) and ‘gotcha’ (the fact of having beeen caught or defeated) Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Machogotcha:

artr, 2008-09-26: 07:35:00
Rolls off the tongue nicely

OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-26: 18:17:00
I like it.

Wristsist: /rist sist/ Stanley could normally open anything but this pickle jar was determined to wristsist all his efforts. Try as he mite, he could not open it. What he did not realize was that he had met the leader of the Wristsistance in his fridge, Colonel Cornichon. The Colonel had dilliberately held his position and mobilized his highly trained commandos, The Gherkins, to hold off Stanley’s attacks. When Stanley held their stronghold under hot water and tapped it with a knife, the Colonel knew the siege was almost over and mustard his courage and sent out an SOS (Sweet or Sour) signal: “Mayo-day, Mayo-day, we don’t relish this a salt. Although we’ve worked hard for our bread and butter, pickles, it is time to use our brines and admit defeat, since wristsistance is futile and sing the old war songs. ‘Goodbye, Piccallili, Farewell Leicester Square, it’s a long, long way to sip a sherry, but my heart’s right there’. Dill we meet again, in the Alimentary Canal, I salute you.” Etymology: Wrist (a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones) & Resist (refuse to comply;withstand the force of something;elude, especially in a baffling way)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Wristsist:

LoftyDreamer, 2008-09-29: 20:23:00
Can’t open the pickle jar? No big dill!

Great paranomasiac story…

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