DEFINITION: The slow but steady rise of murmurs, coughs or harrumphs in audience. May indicate audience dissatisfaction, or the presence of a lethally infectious virus.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Pandepneumonium: /pan-de-nyew-moan-ee-um/ Despite the attendance figures steadily declining, pandepneumonium could be discerned as the flu took hold eliciting the full gamut of coughs, sneezes, growls and snorts. Etymology: pandemonium + pneumonia Created by: petaj.
Acriscendo: /ak-kri-SHEN-do/ A euphorical blisscendia warmed up the wonder of fans as they eagerly awaited the appearance on stage of their fire-eating idol. But after an hour had passed, and still he had not appeared a slow, rythmic handclapping began. The bliss had bottomed out; acriscendo was almost apexical. And, by the time the riot squad arrived, some aggrescendic, fired-up fans had turned the stadium into conflagrational chaoscendico. Etymology: Acriscendo: blending of acriminious & crescendo (“rising bitterness”). Blisscendia: blending of bliss & incendiary (“fiery bliss”) Aggrescendic: blending of aggression & crescendo (“growing aggression”) Chaoscendico: blending of chaos, crescendo & ic ( Created by: OZZIEBOB.
Expectatoration: /eck-speck-tay-toh-RAY-shun/ As the latest incarnation of INXS launched into the second half of an anemic concert filled with 25 year old hits, a muffled, yet audible wave of expectatoration moved across the arena, but not in the usual cheerful way one often sees at sporting events. Etymology: Expectoration (throat clearing, spitting) + spectators. Created by: Kyoti.
Ahemplification: /uh-hehm-plih-fih-KAY-shuhn/ Alex’s one-man show, “I Was A Dating Ne’er-Do-Well” closed after one night, as indicated by the massive ahemplification through the show. Etymology: ahem + amplification Created by: mplsbohemian.
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