Tag: Creativity

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)

Damndelion: /dam-de-lye-on/ Trevor spent the better part of the day treating the golf course for various weeks. All was going well until he reached the green at the 15th hole. He tried everything in his arsenal to kill the bright yellow flowers only to come back to find them standing as tall as ever. Finally, he decided to put on his gloves and yank the weed out by its roots. The joke was on him though – the next morning he found that the damndelion had fought back and brought an army of yellow crusaders to invade the green. Trevor looked upon the field of yellow and exclaimed “Damndelions!!”. Etymology: Damn + dandelion Created by: libertybelle.

Comments on Damndelion:

galwaywegian, 2009-04-20: 11:26:00
beauty!

silveryaspen, 2009-04-20: 17:40:00
Damn Excellent!

metrohumanx, 2009-04-20: 20:16:00
YELLOW CRUSADERS! Great imagery.

Nosila, 2009-04-20: 22:12:00
If I said I din’t like it, I’d be delion!

artr, 2009-04-21: 05:06:00
Wish I’d thought of it! Great word!

Schwarzenneggplant: /sh wart zen egg plahnt/ no matter how many times you take the shears/fork/flamethrower to a schwarzenneggplant, you know it’ll be back! Etymology: schwarzennegger, eggplant Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Schwarzenneggplant:

mrskellyscl, 2009-04-20: 09:58:00
I’ll be bok choy.

splendiction, 2009-04-20: 21:30:00
and I’ll be brock…

splendiction, 2009-04-20: 21:34:00
(broccoli)

Nosila, 2009-04-20: 22:11:00
Hosta la vista, baby!

Rhizomemania: /rhi-zome-ma-ni-a/ Harrietta and Henry would landscape and work all weekend long on their lawn… pulling,shoveling,whacking fiercely attacking weeds like a “rhizomemania” on a killing mission!
Henry sprayed as she prayed gouging and digging with a razor edged spade. Thinking they had finally gotten rid of all of the weeds…Only to find out the next weekend all the weeds had come back! Harrietta had an attack of “rhizomemania” as she crawled in the grass jerking weeds from all over the yard! They had multiplied, Henry, she shouted! “stop what you are planting please and hurry real fast JUST LOOK the weeds are growing faster than we can pull them up they are taking over our yard!” So, Henry came running with the weed eater in tow, to appease poor ol’ Harrietta. She was hysterical and just could not understand how these bothersome weeds grew so fast? Little did she know…Henry returned to his planting in the back yard planting variegated ivy,kudzu and bamboo which he thought was ideal for around the pool…
Etymology: Rhizome:A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots.
Mania:An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze;madness Created by: abrakadeborah.

Comments on Rhizomemania:

metrohumanx, 2009-04-20: 01:06:00
I love the word “rhizome”.Run with it, baby!

silveryaspen, 2009-04-20: 10:00:00
Unique etymology!

abrakadeborah, 2009-04-20: 18:03:00
Thank you dears xoxo Deb 🙂

Nosila, 2009-04-20: 22:10:00
I think you meant Wry-zomemania! I’m rooting for you!

abrakadeborah, 2009-04-22: 05:34:00
Wry thank you Nosila! for rooting for my twisted rhizomemaniaical rhapsody 🙂

Eradicaint: /ee-RAD-ehck-aynt/ Over the course of the growing season Gloria had tried all kinds of chemicals, digging, chopping, lawn mower, and with her latest effort of pouring charcoal starter fluid and lighting it, she was distressed to find that this too was one more eradicaint when she saw the plant flourishing a couple days later. Etymology: Blend of ‘eradicate’ and ‘ain’t’ Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Eradicaint:

galwaywegian, 2009-04-20: 11:25:00
must be a variety of naypalm

silveryaspen, 2009-04-20: 17:35:00
Clever blending! Great Word!

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James

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the create-a-word game

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)

Gnomemansland: /NO-manz-land/ Barb thought it was cute to decorate her yard with little plastic statues of Snow White and her dwarf buddies but her neighbors snickered behind her back and had labeled her yard gnomemansland. Etymology: Blend of Gnome, man, and land, play on the phrase ‘no mans land’. Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Gnomemansland:

mweinmann, 2009-04-17: 09:10:00
great….like it!!

silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:36:00
It doesn’t get gnome better! Super Duper!

splendiction, 2009-04-17: 16:07:00
Yes this is a great word!

Nosila, 2009-04-17: 21:23:00
There’s no place like gnome!

Aliceinwonderyard: /ayl-iss-inn-wun-dur-yaar-d/ Everyone knew Vicki had a horrible case of aliceinwonderyard. Her front lawn was decorated with an army of gnomes, a flock of pink flamingos, a herd of plastic deer, and a wiseguy left over from a nativity set. Etymology: Alice in wonderland (a popular children’s fantasy book) + yard (that green stuff around some peoples houses) Created by: Biscotti.

Comments on Aliceinwonderyard:

silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:24:00
Your word is so Wonderfull!

Gnomicile: /gnome-i-cile/ Jeanette loved her garden, all the little plastic bunnies, gnomes and flamingos. As soon as it warmed up in spring, she was putting together her gnomicile for everyone to enjoy. Etymology: gnome — diminutive beings responsible for guarding the earth.
domicile — permanent home Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Gnomicile:

silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:37:00
Great etymology. Great Create!

splendiction, 2009-04-17: 18:54:00
Yes gnomicile is perfect!

Mustang, 2009-04-17: 21:13:00
Gnomes are so gneat….and gnatural.

Centrollpark: /sen trol park/ Ivy thought she was a cultivated, worldly person. When she and her sister, Holly, bought a house and started to decorate the large garden with trolls and other garden accessories, Ivy decided to call their home Centrollpark. She had a little sign painted to hang on the gate and her neighbours thought her English country garden decorated with the fairyland characters quite quaint. Eventually though their garden was over-run by gnomes, fairies, flamingos, leprechauns, toadstools, toads, windmills and wells. Then some of their friends started giving the girls plastic pigs in all sizes and colors to add to their motif. The pigs were everywhere. The fish pond became Swine Lake, their toolshed became a sty, the Flamingos became Hamingos and the walk, now a trotter, was a big boar. The plastic porcines threatened to hog every green space in the yard. Sadly the lovely Centrollpark had become Centrollpork! Etymology: Central Park (A huge park in Manhattan) & Troll (Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature, either a dwarf or a giant) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Centrollpark:

mweinmann, 2009-04-17: 09:09:00
hahaha, clever story and word.

silveryaspen, 2009-04-17: 10:27:00
This is one to really extroll (extoll) over!

splendiction, 2009-04-17: 18:57:00
LOL at the pigs theme! Well done!

Mustang, 2009-04-17: 21:15:00
Ivy sounds like a troll-op

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Be Creative,

James

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

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)

Dentribulation: /dentribyÉ™lāshÉ™n/ The dental office that Michael goes to has all the modern amenities to deal with any dental issue he might come in with. What they have trouble dealing with is his dentribulations. He will sit in the lobby furtively looking over ages-old magazines dreading THAT moment – when the nurse sticks her head through the door and calls his name. Michael’s inner adult tells him to relax and trust that he will be taken care of. His inner child is kicking, screaming, scratching and biting. The staff hates it when his inner child gets out. Michael has also found that feigning deafness or amnesia doesn’t work very well. Etymology: dental (of or relating to the teeth) + tribulation (a cause of great trouble or suffering) Created by: artr.

Comments on Dentribulation:

Mustang, 2009-04-16: 23:48:00
Great word!

Toothscary: /too – th – skaree/ Georgia went to see the toothscary today… She felt sharp objects hit her gumline while a pair of beady eyes looked down from above. There was a tremendous scraping and then whirring and ringing in her ears while she was blinded by an intense light…..She wondered whether this had ben an alien abdunction but she felt too whoozzy to remember much. Etymology: tooth, scary, not the tooth fairy!! Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Toothscary:

silveryaspen, 2009-04-16: 12:48:00
Ah! Fun etomology. I like your verbotomy fairy much!

Nosila, 2009-04-16: 21:09:00
Driven to extraction…good one!

Dentrified: /den-tri-fied/ (no offense to Gloria Gaynor)
At first I was afraid,
I was dentrified.
Kept thinking I could never live if I should open wide.
But then I spent so many nights thinkin’ how my gums went wrong
and I grew strong,
and I learned how to go along.
And so I’m back, my teeth to brace,
You just walked in and have no chin with that thing on your face.
I should have changed my worried mind, I should have made you rinse your mouth if I’d have known for just one second you’d be drilling north and south.
Oh no, not I, I’m dentrified.
As long as I can rinse and spit, I know that I’ll revive.
I’ve got all my teeth to fill, I’ll just take this little pill and I’ll survive, I will survive — hey, hey! Etymology: dentistry: care of the teeth +
terrified: extreme fright Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Dentrified:

silveryaspen, 2009-04-16: 12:40:00
🙂 Very nice parody and poetry!

abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 20:07:00
LOVE it very creative! 🙂

Nosila, 2009-04-16: 21:12:00
Excellent, mrsk…love that song, you know the one I will hear in my head for the next few days! But I will survive…

Mustang, 2009-04-16: 23:49:00
Very creative. I know the feeling.

mweinmann, 2009-04-17: 09:08:00
This is hysterical….love it!

Physicruel: /fizz ick! crew ull/ “Let me check you over” Dr. Max M. Rough said. He measured and pressured, prodded and poked, nudged and budged, thrust and dug, then jabbed and stabbed, finally shooting my body with concotions of innoculations and vaccinations … all those hurtful ‘tions’ … I wished I could shun! During the mammogram, I wish I could slam a gram, or two, of his most tender flesh between those smashing, mashing plates! When he was done, I asked him “Why does a good going over have to feel so bad? Why is a physical so physicruel?” Etymology: PHYSICAL, CRUEL. Physical – medical examination. Cruel – painful, harsh, hard, nasty and unpleasant. Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Physicruel:

Nosila, 2009-04-16: 21:07:00
Good one…too bad they don’t have manograms for guys like hium!

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Be Creative,

James

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the create-a-word game

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)

Einstymied: /Ä«nstÄ«mÄ“d/ Randall is the youngest ever in his school to take Master’s-level physics. Some call him a prodigy. Today he feels more like a brick of prodicheese. He is completely Einstymied by the test in front of him. Apparently his brain has gone back to bed without him. Etymology: Einstein (a genius) + stymied (prevent or hinder the progress of) Created by: artr.

Comments on Einstymied:

splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:36:00
ha ha! well done!

Slipnaughts: /slip naughts/ Mr. S. M. Arty Pants pompously pontificated his perspicacious perceptions perpetually. People paid little attention to his weary, dreary, tiresome tedious technical talking. Suddenly, his speech suspended when his mind suffered slipnaughts and left him tied up in silence. Etymology:
SLIP, NAUGHT, SLIPKNOTS. When a mind slips (falls)into naughts (nothings), it becomes all slipknotted (tied up) in silence. Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Slipnaughts:

mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:49:00
hahaha….slipknots are pefect…they can go either way, as evidenced by Mr. Arty Pants…

splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:35:00
– great blending, crafty name “Smarty Pants” and effective alliteration! Stunning.

abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 18:50:00
I’m shcpitting on my schreeen az I read your “slipnaughts” and I’m perpetually shaying you’re obshurevayshuns are schpot on! 🙂

Cerabrasion: /sera bray zhun/ Sarah Bellam was normally an intelligent girl, who aced exams and got high marks without even studying. That was until today. She sat at the exam desk and suffered a serious bout of cerebrasion. She could not even concentrate on the questions, nevermind supply lucid answers. She was out of her gourd and feeling melon-choly. This was because last night, the man of her dreams, Harry Honeydew, had asked her to run away with him and get married. Sure, she was tempted, but at 18, she knew she did not have the courgette to defy her parents and give up her education or her Mellon scholarship. She squashed his romantic overtures and played back in her mind the words she worried she may later come to regret,”No, I cantaloupe with you Harry!” Etymology: Cerebrate (use or exercise the mind or one’s power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments) & Abrasion (erosion by friction, being worn down) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Cerabrasion:

mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:47:00
This is clever, funny and perfect!

silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 11:58:00
Super names and super verbotomies! Very Brainy! 🙂

splendiction, 2009-04-15: 21:44:00
Excellent!

Mustang, 2009-04-16: 00:22:00
Definitely something to cerebrate.

Transcendentaldeprivation: /tranz-en-dentl-dep-ruhv-ay-shun/ Gilbert had recurring episodes of transcendentaldeprivation and particularly so when he was trying to show off his imaginary mental agility wherein his mind would wander completely off topic causing him to lose his train of thought entirely. Etymology: Blend of ‘transcendental’ (being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural) and ‘deprivation’,(dispossession; loss) a play on the term ‘transcendental meditation’. Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Transcendentaldeprivation:

mweinmann, 2009-04-15: 08:50:00
Also transcenmental ….wonderful word!

silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 12:01:00
Highly Clever!

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James

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the create-a-word game

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)

Lackcident: /lak sid dent/ The upper management at the Quick Letter Company, who made big signs, brought in a new edgy Health and Safety Program designed to reduce the injury rate at their manufacturing facility. They offered rewards like cash, merchandise and paid days off as incentives to those employees who had few or no missed days due to workplace injuries. The theory was great, the company would get compensation rebates for no lost times and raise safety awareness. The lost time days vanished and it appeared that they had broken all previous safety records on the job. It soon became evident, however, that people failed to report the work injuries in the hope of winning fabulous prizes. People smuggled in their own first aid kits and treated themselves secretly as each mishap occurred, and failed to report them. The management should have been more suspicious of employees with staples stuck in their fingers, nails protruding from feet and all manner of bruises and bumps not visible earlier in the day. The common response to “What happened to you?” was “It happened at home.” Since they could prove no corruption of their program, it continued, with all it’s suspicious events. Everything was fine until one day, when someone drove a forklift too quickly into a company sign and one of the metal letters in the words “Quick Letter Company” fell from a high height on a manager’s head, embedded itself in his cranium and reduced him to a blinded, blethering fool. Yes, having a lackcident is fun until someone loses an “i”! Etymology: Lack (not have, be without) & Accident (a mishap; especially one causing injury or death)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Lackcident:

silveryaspen, 2009-04-14: 11:35:00
I luved the sleye, witty, w-I’s-e ending! Your lacksIdental
story and verbotomy caught my aye!

abrakadeborah, 2009-04-17: 03:32:00
What a great mind’s “I” you have Nosila! 🙂 I enjoyed your story!

Oopsadummy: /oŏpsÄ“dÉ™mÄ“/ Most mothers are happy when their newborn has the requisite number of fingers and toes. Wendel’s mother feels the need to take periodic inventory. Wendel is a klutz who has been teased to the point he hides his injuries to avoid ridicule. In doing this he has become an oopsadummy. She has only had to take to the ER once so far when he almost severed his arm with a blade server. Etymology: oopsy-daisy (used to express encouragement to a child who has fallen) + dummy (a stupid person) Created by: artr.

Duhnial: /duh-NYL/ Sheena was da queena duhnial. She was clumsy, disorganized and more than a little uncoordinated and frequently injured herself or damage some item she was working with but would instantly duhny any serious damage had occurred. Etymology: Blend of ‘duh’ and ‘denial’ Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Duhnial:

silveryaspen, 2009-04-14: 11:46:00
A word of great duhplicity! Exduhllent!

Nosila, 2009-04-14: 20:23:00
Duhlightful, Mustang!

Bluffoon: /bluff oon/ There is no fool like an oaf fool. Clum Sy blundered and blustered around, often hitting his clunkhead and falling down. He was constantly embarrasssed by his lumpy and broken bonehead, black eyes, split lips, and an occasional broken nose, when he accidentally struck it, because he put it where it shouldn’t be. Rather than admit he was just a bumpling box boy, he would pretend he was a boxer, and hoped no one would realize he was just a bluffoon.
Etymology: BLUFF, BUFFOON. BLUFF – try to mislead others about some thing. BUFFOON – a bumbling clumsy person, such people often unintentionally hurt themselves. Clowns often act this way to make people laugh and America’s Funniest Home Videos tv show has lots of videos of buffoons. /// The first line contains the parody of oaf fool for old fool. /// His name Clum Sy is said clumsy. /// Clunkhead is a blending of the clunking a lunkhead takes. /// Bumpling is a blending of the bumps one gets when bumbling around. /// Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Bluffoon:

Nosila, 2009-04-14: 20:22:00
Great new words…love bumpling!

Mustang, 2009-04-14: 23:41:00
I know some oaf fools…been called one. Great word!

abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 19:16:00
Love it! ROTFLMBO! B-B-B-BAA-foooon is on the bluff! being a Bluffoon! LOL! 🙂

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Be Creative,

James

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the create-a-word game