Tag: Verbotomy

DEFINITION: v. To try to kill a weed that just won’t die. n. A weed that just keeps on coming back, no matter what you do to it.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Zombeanstalk: /zämbēnstôk/ Zack planted some beans that he was told were magic. Little did he know how true that was. Once planted they could not be stopped. After harvesting a few nasty tasting beans he decided to plant tomatoes so he turned over the soil and put in a few nice plants. The next day he found the uprooted ”mater” plants plastered against the shed as if flung by some unseen hand and the zombeanstalk standing in their place. Thus began a summer of battle to reclaim the garden. Pesticides, herbicides, even hoes and machetes were no match for this evil thing. Every assault just seemed to make it stronger. The onset of Winter finally brought Zack the relief he sought. He is now desperately trying to sell his house so that he can be gone by the Spring thaw. Etymology: zombie (a soulless corpse said to be revived by witchcraft) + beanstalk (the stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast growing and tall) Created by: artr.

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galwaywegian, 2010-11-02: 16:06:00
love it!

Damndelion: /dam dee lie un/ There it was again that damndelion, purring amid her prize blooms Etymology: dandelion, damn Created by: galwaywegian.

Sasquash: /SAS kwosh/ Cala had spent many weeks the previous year getting rid of all the different kinds of squash that had grown in her garden. She had made pickles, disguised it in zucchini bread, roasted pumpkin seeds, and cut 20 jack-o-lanterns. She had even simply put some of it in bags which she then dropped off on random doorsteps on her way to work, knowing that her own neighbors would recognize her handiwork. And now it had all returned full force in a spectacularly scary regrowth, with even bigger plants than last year, like Sasquash. Calabashed her head against the wall with the frustration. “Oh my gourd!” she now cried. “It’s just not cutecumber any more. It’s spaghetting worse every year!” Butternutty ways will have her replanting next summer.

Etymology: Sasquatch + squash Created by: karenanne.

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Nosila, 2010-11-02: 22:21:00
Love it! Your puns are like mine…not for the marrow-minded!

Inweedstructable: /in-weed-struck-tab-ul/ She didn’t care if she using the most toxic weed killer around and that it was polluting the water or potentially harming the neighbourhood cats or dogs, as long as all the inweedstructables in her garden were dead, she was happy. Etymology: indestructable + weed Created by: remistram.

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DEFINITION: v. To express your love of nature by covering your lawn with statues, ornaments and other plastic figurines. n. A home which is infested with gnomes, elves, plastic animals, and other lawn ornaments.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Ornafestation: /ôrnəfestāshən/ Maybe it is a form of separation anxiety or some sort of guilty pleasure but every time Bob needs to leave town on business, Louise feels the need to add to the ornafestation in the front yard. This time during a trip to Kansas she went for the full tacky-pack — the burro with cart complete with gnome driver and 8 dozen plastic flowers. Bob has learned to walk to and from his car looking only at his shoes and enough walkway to keep from tripping. Etymology: ornament (a thing used to adorn something but usually having no practical purpose) + (insects or animals in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease) Created by: artr.

Kitschen: /k itch in/ The food in her kitschen was great, it was the little plaques all over the place with heart warming phrases that were hard to stomach. Etymology: kitchen, kitsch Created by: galwaywegian.

Bricabracken: /BRIK ah brak en/ Sue Veneer likes to bring home something “cute” for her yard from every place she travels. Since her collection represents places from Alaska to Zimbabwe, there is no rhyme nor reason to how things are placed. She also favors “the wild look,” which features a lot of bushes and ground cover, requiring a minimum of upkeep. Sue’s yard is probably the only place in the world where a polar bear towers over a zebra, both standing in a patch of English ivy. Her neighbors find it unusual and call it “the bric-a-bracken,” but consider it much more tolerable than the previous owner’s yard, which most of them remember all too well even though it was almost fifteen years ago. That one featured, um, “vintage,” cars in various states of repair, many up on blocks. Etymology: bric-a-brac (knick-knacks, curios, novelty decorations) + bracken (dense or scrubby shrubbery or undergrowth) Created by: karenanne.

Tchotchkepidemic: /chawtch-key-epp-ih-dem-ick/ The toys that comprised the tchotchkepidemic on her lawn were defaced by the neighbourhood kids. To her horror they drew anatomically correct body parts on the gnomes and smurfs with black Sharpies. Etymology: tchotchke (as in trinket or ornament) + epidemic (as in a rapid spread or increase in the occurrence of something) Created by: remistram.

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DEFINITION: v. To feel a sense of discomfort and unease while a medical professional does their job, poking and prodding at the weak points in your body. n. The feelings apprehension, worry and embarrassment which occur while one is undergoing a medical examination.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Hippocalyptic: /hip pok a lip tik/ It was with a hippocalyptic feeling that Henry went to the only doctor in town. Being a newcomer, Henry was unaware that most locals did not see old Doc Sawyer Bones. They went to the City Hospital instead. Henry’s pain and discomfort at going to a new doctor was only overshadowed by the extreme abdominal pains which had attacked him for the past few hours. It was only when he was counting backwards from 100 that he spied the certificate on the wall…Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine. He just hoped that he’d not wake up and find himself neutered! Etymology: Hippocratic (an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates…first do no harm!) & Apocalypic (prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom;dread)

Created by: Nosila.

Paprehension: /paprihenshən/ Joyce is very good about keeping up on all her preventive medical procedures but admits to paprehension. Etymology: pap test (a test to detect cancer of the cervix or uterus) + apprehension (anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen) Created by: artr.

Medicangst: /med-ick-ang-st/ Her medicangst heightened when she witnessed out of the corner of her eye, her dental surgeon taking a long haul of an inhale of laughing gas just prior to her wisdom teeth extraction. Etymology: medical + angst Created by: remistram.

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DEFINITION: n. An out-of-body, or out-of-brain, experience which occurs when faced with a demanding intellectual challenge. v. To lose your train of thought while trying to demonstrate your intellectual prowess.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Conundumb: /ko nun dum/ It was her worst nightmare. Mary Jane had studied hard for her finals. In fact, she’d spent hours cramming in knowledge for the big day. She’d answered every multiple choice question and felt confident that her answer was the right one in each case. All finished, she just had to complete the top portion with her personal information. She froze when it asked for her address and phone number. Having just moved, she could not for the life of her remember them. AAAgh! What a conundumb and her not allowed to open her purse. She obviously had crammed too much intense trivia in her brain cells and bumped out a simple sequence of numbers. Time’s up, Mary Jane! Etymology: Conundrum (a difficult problem;enigma;something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained;riddle) & Dumb (slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;stupid)

Created by: Nosila.

Duhmentia: /dəmenshə/ His doctor told him there was no sign of dementia but Rudy knows he has days where duhmentia is the order of the day. It might be unwrapping something to eat, tossing the food in the trash leaving him with a wrapper in hand and a dumb look on his face or walking from one room to another with a task in mind only to forget why he went there. There was something else but I can’t remember it just now. Etymology: duh (used to comment on an action perceived as foolish or stupid) + dementia (a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning) Created by: artr.

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karenanne, 2010-10-29: 11:56:00
perfect

Intellectrance: /inn-tell-eck-trance/ When she entellectranced during her exam and left most of the answers blank, she realised later that all was not lost. That night while she slept she rattled off the answers perfectly in sequence while she talked in her sleep. Her husband, oblivious and never waking up to her droning voice, suddenly became highly educated on women’s studies and gender analysis, constructions and intersections of race, class, age, ability and sexuality in popular culture, everyday life, the arts, the sciences, politics, societies, and the economy. Etymology: intellect + trance (as in dazed) Created by: remistram.

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DEFINITION: v. To deny that you have stupidly injured yourself for fear of punishment or ridicule. n. A person who won’t admit it when they shoot themselves in the foot (which they seem to do quite often).

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Disavouch: /dis a vowch/ Women torture themselves in the name of beauty. Wearing very high heels all day long and denying that your feet hurt. Getting hair extensions glued and twisted onto your scalp to pretend you have thick hair. Fake nails drilled onto your nailbed. When the pain becomes unbearable, we disavouch ourselves and bravely smile and continue looking glamourous. Afterall, being beautiful is to die for… Etymology: Disavow (deny;refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with) & Ouch (expressing a feeling of sudden pain) Created by: Nosila.

Oopsdenial: /oŏpsdinīəl/ With a spoon still stuck up his nose, Harry is in a state of oopsdenial. Etymology: oops (used to show recognition of a mistake or minor accident, often as part of an apology) + denial (the action of declaring something to be untrue) Created by: artr.

Refutabuse: /ree-fewt-ah-beuse/ Usually after she refutabused herself she could piece herself back together swimmingly, but today after she dropped her eyeball on the floor, and after the cat ate it she realised that she should get some therapy. Etymology: refute (deny) + abuse (injure) Created by: remistram.

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