Tag: Creativity

DEFINITION: v. To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn’t like you. n. A sacrifice made for money that goes unrewarded.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Ebinezerscrewed: /EBB-uh-knee-zur-SCREW-d/ I cast my lot with Madoff-
I was a greedy dude.
but my investments were consumed…
I’m EBINEZERSCREWED!
God bless us all- including Tiny Tim. Etymology: The Dikkens, you say!
(Charles Dikkens, the famous DUTCH author) Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Ebinezerscrewed:

metrohumanx, 2009-09-02: 00:33:00
More fun and a cool game:
http://sodaplay.com/creators/soda/items/constructor

artr, 2009-09-02: 06:16:00
Nice tie-in.

Nosila, 2009-09-02: 12:52:00
Hum bug(ger)!

mweinmann, 2009-09-03: 08:02:00
hahaha fun word!

Jinglejanglejilted: /jin-gle-jan-gle-jil-ted/ The silvery tinkle of coinage in his pocket reminded Jim of his unrequited attraction to Lady Luck. He knew he was always destined to be jinglejanglejilted. Etymology: Jingle-jangle: thin, tinkling metallic sound such as coinage, tambourines, (“In the jingle-jangle morning I’ll come following you”-Bob Dylan) or spurs (“I got spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle as I go riding merrily along” -Gene Autry) + jilted: rejected, spurned Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Jinglejanglejilted:

Nosila, 2009-09-03: 01:34:00
Great, now you’ve stuck 2 songs in my head!

Profeiture: /pro fay tchur/ Buck Chaser had always gone after Dame Fortune and sacrificed everything to be her Real love. He risked profeiture to spend the rest of his days with the lovely Ms. Money. He always had a Yen to have her and he was so Rand-y,he would Lira after her. Finally she had to confront him: “Buck, Let me be Franc with you…Euro becoming a Zloty and a Drachma and I want to Krone you with so many Pounds they will leave a Mark on you. Can’t you see Cents? In my opinion, we have a Peso-mistic future together. If you don’t Peseta off soon, I will have Robert Dinero take your neck and Ringgit and have you Guildered, before he throws you on the Ruble heap! Yuan to know the Buck stops here!”
Etymology: Profit (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) & Forfeiture (the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.) Created by: Nosila.

Paininthecash: /pāninðəkash/ Buck worked at a job he hated his entire adult life for the promise of a comfortable retirement. Now that he is nearing that time, all the recession has in store for him is a paininthecash. Etymology: A play off of “pain in the ass” Created by: artr.

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https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=money

Be Creative,

James

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the create-a-word game

DEFINITION: v. To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation. n. An historical date which has been “adjusted” to fit present needs.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Historted: /hiss – tor – ted/ When Elvira related the times and dates of her whereabouts during the month of October, it seemed she had historted everything so that she would not be arrested. Etymology: history, distorted Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Historted:

Nosila, 2009-09-01: 12:03:00
Was she areested for histortion?

mrskellyscl, 2009-09-01: 15:11:00
histerical

mweinmann, 2009-09-02: 12:52:00
and the rest is….hystery!!

Altarerioration: /al tar ree er ayshun/ When Benny married Bertha, he made a slight altarerioration to their marriage date. They had been married overseas, without family present. Instead of November, he recorded it as April. This was just to make sure that their baby, Swen, looked like he was planned. The truth was that Benny had forgotten to go to the drugstore… Etymology: Altar (a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made;where vows are exchanged in the church at a wedding) & Alteration (the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) & Ulterior (lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
Created by: Nosila.

Chronotweak: /CROW-NO-TWEEK/ The warranty can’t be expired.
It’s too new to be so tired.
I told you twice – ‘twas just last week…
And that’s not simply CHRONOTWEAK!
Etymology: CHRONO-prefix relating to TIME;Greek, from chronos+ TWEAK-to make usually small adjustments in or to;probably alteration of Middle English twikken to pull sharply, from Old English twiccian to pluck. Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Chronotweak:

metrohumanx, 2009-09-01: 11:03:00
Try this for fun:
http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/

Nosila, 2009-09-01: 12:05:00
chronoversal themes

Dememoir: /dimemwär/ Despite the fact that his dementia means he can’t remember many of the events he was writing about the retired politician is busy crafting his dememoir. If history makes him look bad he merely changes the dates or sequence of events to put himself in a better light. If you were to add up his account of experience in various offices, he started his career in public service at the age of seven. Etymology: 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) + memoir (a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources) Created by: artr.

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James

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the create-a-word game

DEFINITION: n. A non-threatening term to describe the procedure of cutting vocal cords on yappy dogs, which makes it sound like a good thing — after all, they will never bark again. v. To remove the vocal chords.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Yapendectomy: /yap pen dek toe mee/ Fifi was so excited. She loved going in the car with her “Mommy”. A car ride meant a run in the off-leash park or a free dog cone from Dairy Queen. Today Mommy had told her she was going to get a yapendectomy…she was so excited she barked all the way there. When they pulled up to the building, Fifi realized it was the same place where her brother Rover had gone when he had gotten tutored! Etymology: Yap (bark in a high-pitched tone)& Appendectomy (surgical removal of the vermiform appendix) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Yapendectomy:

artr, 2009-08-31: 06:33:00
Great, now my kid won’t go to his tutor!

Frogmentation: /frôgmentāshən/ When anybody asked, Rudy told people that had undergone a vocal frogmentation. He felt that it sounded less extreme and less selfish then having the vocal cords of his yappy little dog cut. Etymology: Frog [in the throat] (Temporary hoarseness caused by phlegm in the back of the throat) + augmentation (improvement) Created by: artr.

Yippysnippy: /yip-py-snip-py/ Owner: “Peanut, your incessant barking has kept me from sleep too often. It’s time to go to the vet and see what can be done.”
Peanut: “Yippysnippy” Etymology: wordplay on Yippy-Skippy — a sarcastic answer to anything you have to do or something that doesn’t sound fun. Also can be used when you don’t give a damn about something and want to use sarcasm (Urban dictionary). Yip: the shrill bark of a small dog + Snip: to sever with a small cut or incision Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Yippysnippy:

Nosila, 2009-08-31: 13:23:00
Skippy peanut butter…

Woofediting: /wuf – edet – ting/ Sparky was excited to go for woofediting. He thought it meant that he would emerge with a smooth, silky voice that would fit with his image….as a “Dog About Town”. Etymology: woof, editing Created by: mweinmann.

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Be Creative,

James

www.verbotomy.com
the create-a-word game

DEFINITION: n. A special ability lets you focus on the big picture without getting distracted by those busy little details. v. To skip over the details while focusing on the big picture.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Visionairy: /viz zhun err ee/ Vincent was a visionairy who worked in an apiary. No, he did not look after apes, he was a beekeeper, who was always abuzz with new ideas. He would drone on and on to his co-workers about his revolutionary ideas, like planting mini-video cams on the bees’ backs to make cute movies for the Internet. He would wax poetic about spelling bees…bees who would spell out words. His friends thought he’d bee better off using a comb on his hair, playing his Queen cd’s while actually becoming a worker and using some cream on those hives! Etymology: Visionary (a person with unusual powers of foresight;a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible adjective:not practical or realizable; speculative) & Airy (not practical or realizable; speculative;characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air) Created by: Nosila.

Minutiopia: /mi-nyu-she-o-pi-a/ Larry’s lack of ability to see the small picture was due to his minutiopia. Mary took him to the opthamologist, but unfortunately, there was no script there to help his oversightedness. Etymology: minutia: a small or trivial detail + opia: suffix that indicates a visual condition or defect(as in myopia – the inability to see distances or short sighted) Created by: mrskellyscl.

Horizonized: /hÉ™-ˈrÄ«-zÉ™n-rÄ«zd/ v. He was so horizonized that he could never focus on how to pay attention to the little details of how to reach a big goal. Instead, he stumbled through life unable to see the potholes because he couldn’t stop focusing on the horizon.

n. His horizonization was the worst. The man walked around with bees on his face, his fly unzipped, and some part of breakfast dangling from a lip corner, yet he was completely oblivious to it all because he was a slave to the big picture but a zombie on the day-to-day. Etymology: Horizon – the boundary one sees in the furthest distance where sky meets earth as far as they eye believes. Also from Greek present participle of horizein meaning “to bound, define”
and
Mesmerize – Which is the eponymous word for what F.A. Mesmer did, which was to hypnotize. Created by: Buzzardbilly.

Comments on Horizonized:

jrogan, 2009-08-28: 23:01:00
Slave and zombie all at once — great image

Nosila, 2009-08-28: 23:41:00
Great word…horizontal thinking at it’s best!

Utopitan: /yoōtōpətən/ John*s boss is a Utopitan. He has never been introduced to a practical detail that he can*t ignore, much to the pain of his employees. Where others can*t see the forest for the trees, he can*t see the trees for the forest. This is especially bad for someone who owns a tree trimming service. Etymology: Utopian (modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic) + pita (pain in the ass) Created by: artr.

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James

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the create-a-word game

DEFINITION: n. A “natural process” which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear. v. To clean up someone else’s butts.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Disintokration: /disintōkrāshən/ Just about every car sold in America is equipped with an ash tray. Many go unused because smokers believe in disintokration, that magic process by which their butts, wrappers and even packaging go up in smoke just like the cigs themselves. A quick flick of the wrist and all responsibility is done. Etymology: disintegration (the process of coming to pieces) + toke (the drawing of a puff from a cigarette or pipe) Created by: artr.

Comments on Disintokration:

Nosila, 2009-08-27: 15:21:00
Sadly, too true! Good Word.

Confagation: /kon fag ay shun/ When Virginia Slims started dating the Marlborough Man (Smoky to his friends), she worried not what would happen after they butted out their emberous reamains. She believed that the natural process of confagation would remove the reminders of their nicotine assignations. She was partly right, as often there would be a fire after they left the area and the coffin nails smouldered and flared up. Etymology: Conflagration (a very intense and uncontrolled fire) & Fag (finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking)

Created by: Nosila.

Buttification: /but-ti-fi-ca-tion/ Because she loved the park, Norma engaged in buttification every weekend so that visitors, especially the children, wouldn’t have to put up with the sights and smells of tobacco waste. Etymology: beautification: to make or become beautiful + butt: the discarded end of a cigarette. Created by: mrskellyscl.

Cigarbage: /see-gar-bage/ Jonathan inhaled deeply, while his girlfriend complained (again) about the cigarbage on their living floor. He dropped his cigarette to the floor and carefully stubbed it out. Then he turned to her letting out a puff of smoke, and said, “What garbage? I don’t see garbage.” Etymology: cigar + garbage Created by: jrogan.

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Be Creative,

James

www.verbotomy.com
the create-a-word game