DEFINITION: v. To ignore anything positive and focus your energy on problems, disasters, and whatever bad news you find. n. A person who searches for, and feeds on, other people’s weaknesses, failures and mistakes.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Woewallow: /wÅwälÅ/ Willy watches the news with great interest. He loves to woewallow. If there is bad news he wants to share it. Disasters, tragedies, agony? A new study that finds your favorite food as a possible cancer cause. He’s there! He firmly believes that every silver lining is wrapped in a big beautiful grey cloud. Etymology: woe (great sorrow or distress) + wallow ( indulge in an unrestrained way) Created by: artr.
Comments on Woewallow:
wayoffcenter, 2009-04-21: 07:35:00
You met my dad?
Raptsully: /RAPt-suhl-LEE (RAPTSULLIER)
[ rhymes with “musketeer”]/ Berserker psychos stomp on joy,
With dark foreboding they deploy…
Poisoned tricks and creeping doubt-
If it be bad, they’ll drag it out!
Besmirching that which some hold dear-
Beware the toxic RAPTSULLIER!
Etymology: RAPT+SULLY= RAPTSULLIER…..RAPT: lifted up and carried away, transported with emotion; Middle English, from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere to seize…..SULLY: to make soiled or tarnished; Middle English *sullien, probably alteration (influenced by Anglo-French suillier, soiller to soil) of sulen to soil, from Old English sylian…..-IER: suffix denoting one who wields or participates in…
Created by: metrohumanx.
Comments on Raptsully:
silveryaspen, 2009-04-21: 09:20:00
Great word for a lot of the rappers who spewings fit this definition. Super Terrific Verbotomy!metrohumanx, 2009-04-22: 01:21:00
Aww- thanx, Lady!abrakadeborah, 2009-04-22: 05:48:00
I’m fully entertained! Love this part “If it be bad, they’ll drag it out!” 🙂
Negpeck: /neg – pek/ Everytime I try to suggest something positive, Elaine always tries to negpeck it down. Etymology: New Eng. (UWS) Created by: DrWebsterIII.
Comments on Negpeck:
Nosila, 2009-04-21: 22:26:00
cute, drw.abrakadeborah, 2009-04-22: 06:27:00
I know an Negpeck Elaine just like this!
:)lol!
Ghoultures: /ghoul churs / Named after the devil in him, Sin Nick earned his living, by feeding on, and exploiting other people’s weaknesses, failures, and mistakes … by writing about them in the media, so all the world could see and hear about them, as well … and feed upon such misfortune, too. People like Sin Nicks, Gloomy Guses, Worry Warts, Pessy Mists, Wet Blankets, Sca Vengers, and old Buzz Ards, and all their fallowers are ghoultures. Etymology: GHOULISH, VULTURES. GHOULISH – morbidly fascinated and obsessively interested in weakness, failure, disaster, death and anything repulsive. VULTURES – birds or people who prey upon, and feed upon, the weak, the failing, the misfortunate. Culture – groups of people with shared attitudes and beliefs, such as the ghoultures, the cynics (sin nicks) who feed upon the misfortunate. Fall-lowers for followers. Created by: silveryaspen.
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