Tag: neologism

DEFINITION: n. An unleashed pet (or boyfriend) which is running amuck, chasing cars, eating garbage, and jumping on innocent bystanders. v. To unleash your pet and let him or her run wild.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Feralunatrog: /FEAR-uh-LOON-uh-trog/ Sookie and Sandy sure liked to party-
The food wasn’t good but the toasts they were hearty!-
The music grew louder, the word passed around-
Someone invited the bums from downtown…
Soon it grew nasty-the punch it got drained–
Some fool brought a pit bull-The punches they rained-
On innocent drunkards who passed out quite early-
The riot squad turned out that night to be surly.
So next time you party with Sookie and Sandy-
Come with a tazer and keep the mace handy.
Come with a buddy, a spouse or a dog, but…
Please don’t bring a FERALUNATROG
Etymology: FERAL+lUNAtic+TROGlodyte=FERALUNATROG…..FERAL: of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast, having escaped from domestication and become wild; Medieval Latin feralis, from Latin fera wild animal, from feminine of ferus wild 1604…..LUNATIC: affected with lunacy, wildly foolish; Middle English lunatik, from Anglo-French or Late Latin; Anglo-French lunatic, from Late Latin lunaticus, from Latin luna; from the erroneous belief that lunacy fluctuated with the phases of the moon…..TROGLODYTE: a member of any of various peoples (as in antiquity) who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves; Latin troglodytae, plural, from Greek trōglodytai, from trōglÄ“ hole, cave (akin to Greek trōgein to gnaw, Armenian aracem I lead to pasture, graze) + dyein to enter. Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Feralunatrog:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-19: 02:35:00
Roaring with laughter at your silly rhyme, and your dilly of a verbotomy! Funtastic!

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-19: 02:58:00
Please don’t bring a FERALUNATROG

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-19: 02:59:00
dang it cut off all I said…good one! 🙂

metrohumanx, 2009-03-19: 03:02:00
Thanks, all. I was pushing the envelope with that one….?!

metrohumanx, 2009-03-19: 03:13:00
YEARS of Academy training…..WASTED!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-19: 20:35:00
Insanely good.

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-22: 22:46:00
You got my vote! Excellent word! 🙂

Scalawagger: /Skal – ah – wag – gur/ Ol Buffy was a scalawagger… His tail was fast, he was no lagger. Up and down the street he ran after cars and after vans. He took the food right off one’s plate and with every female dog did mate. But now he is all dead and gone so this is the end of my doggie song. Etymology: scalawag, wag, wagger… A scalawag one who is playfully mischievous and one that is also a wagger has a tail to wag as does a dog Created by: rombus.

Comments on Scalawagger:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-19: 13:32:00
Awwwwwwww! Even though he was an outlaw … a desperdogo, it’s such a cute and clever rhyme … and scalawagger is absolutely adorable! Your sentence and word are truly Superb!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-19: 20:29:00
Really good!

Nosila, 2009-03-20: 23:05:00
I’m so sad he’s dog-gone! Good Word, rombus.

Boyfrienzy: /boifrenzē/ It was always the same. They would go to a party. The girls would gather in the kitchen and exchange gossip. The boys would gather near the TV and at the slightest provocation start acting like fools. The girls would act disgusted but were secretly envious to join the boyfrienzy. Etymology: boyfriend (a regular male companion with whom one has a romantic or sexual relationship) + frenzy (a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior) Created by: artr.

Comments on Boyfrienzy:

wayoffcenter, 2009-03-19: 06:58:00
I’ve seen a few girlfrienzies too!

Terrorier: /tehr err eeeeeeeeee errr/ When Jo’s terrorier was let loose

He peed in the chilled orange juice

He dismembered the turkey

and to finish his work, he

Attempted gran’s ankles to goose! Etymology: terrier, terror Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Terrorier:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-19: 13:37:00
Grrrrrr-oss sentence, Grrrrr-eat word!
Even if it hard to say it three times fast!

galwaywegian, 2009-03-19: 15:20:00
its a limerick, did you spot it?

silveryaspen, 2009-03-19: 16:56:00
Yes, it is a one of the fun rhymes of today. Has such clever attention getting gimmick, it deserves a special name, so lets call it a gimmerick!

Mustang, 2009-03-19: 19:27:00
Funny….and his name was no doubt Fido.

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DEFINITION: n. A hiding place which is used to store emergency supplies like donuts, booze and candies. v. To hide special treats in secret locations around your home or office, so you can access them when needed.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Snackristy: /-snahk-riss-tee-/ The priest would hide candy bars and sodas within the snackristy to tempt the gangly altar boys and the painted Jezabels of the parish to stay after mass and accept his catechism. Etymology: sacristy – the room in a church where the sacred items are kept;
snack – a small quantity of food betwixt meals to prevent the gut from digesting itself Created by: Banky.

Comments on Snackristy:

metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:28:00
Domenic- go frisk ’em.

readerwriter, 2009-03-18: 08:21:00
Perfecto!

galwaywegian, 2009-03-18: 10:17:00
(W)holy unacceptable 🙂

silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 11:30:00
Tad sackreligious! Very Clever!

mweinmann, 2009-03-18: 12:56:00
Also snackreligious….and funny

Hoardaway: /hoard a weigh/ When it come to sweets and treats, especially nuts, Hazel likes to make like a squirrel and stash them in a cache. Hazel would be most upset if you found a way into her hoardaway. Etymology: HOARD – to secretly accumulate and collect. AWAY – missing, as in missing so no one else can have it. HOARDAWAY is also a word play on HIDE AWAY. Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Hoardaway:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 00:52:00
What do most hoardaways dislike? Da weigh in!

metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:24:00
You always take the HARDWAY!

mweinmann, 2009-03-18: 13:02:00
Hordes of people (and squirrels) would love to find Hazel’s hidden hoardaway…

silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 20:10:00
especially her cachew stash, mweinmann! Better not let her cacheyou!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-19: 00:02:00
Awesome!

Chipbunk: /chipbÉ™ngk/ When Chip’s brother went off to college the bedroom was all his. The first thing he did was to squirrel away some of his favorite snacks. He could never do this before because his brother would always ferret them out. He had cookies in shoe boxes in his closet – gummy bears in his sock drawer. He found that he could replace his brother’s pillow with bags of chips. He took over the upper berth so he now had Chip’s bunk and a chipbunk. Etymology: chip (a thin slice of food made crisp by being fried, baked, or dried and typically eaten as a snack) + bunk (a piece of furniture consisting of two beds, one above the other, that form a unit) Created by: artr.

Comments on Chipbunk:

Mustang, 2009-03-18: 19:21:00
Makes me hungry just reading about it. Good word!

Snacache: /snakaysh
(alt) snakash/ George hid his personal treats in his well hidden snacache. (n)

No one could snacache her supplies like Juie (v). Etymology: A combination of snack and cache Created by: Radegar.

Comments on Snacache:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 12:33:00
Welcome! You really cached in on this one!

Mustang, 2009-03-18: 19:20:00
Excellent!!

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DEFINITION: n. Annoying neighbors who spend endless hours mowing their lawns, painting their fences, washing their cars, and browbeating you because you have a life. v. To express disapproval for someone’s lifestyle.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Maintenazi: /main-ten-a-tzi/ Tish liked her new neighborhood, however after a few days she began to notice a low pitched, constant hum. It sounded like lawn equipment. The droning never stopped. It was there on Sunday morning and Friday night at 2 am.– all the time, really. Could it be that she had accidentally moved into a neighborhood run by Maintenatzis? Come to think of it, the woman across the street constantly raked and swept the street. Strange, what would she have to rake in January? Tish looked out the window — she was out there sweeping. The woman’s face was expressionless and her eyes seemed to focus on nothing as she swung her broom back and forth. Here husband was trimming his bushes. Each branch was perfectly trimnmed and all exactly the same size. Tish knew that Maintenazis were not people to be ignored, but who and what are these people she wondered.
Just then she noticed the sound — the lawn equipment — was it getting closer? Etymology: To enforce through intimidation lawncare maintenance by strict codes and ideology. Maintenazis are known to leave their homes only to go to Home Depot for more mulch. Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Maintenazi:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 14:13:00
Welcome. Clever sentence and word. Well-crafted!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 20:03:00
Good word and funny sentence.

metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:47:00
Excellent and creepy story!

mweinmann, 2009-03-18: 13:06:00
Excellent word…welcome!

Nosila, 2009-03-18: 18:59:00
Great word…ve haf vays off making you look after your yard…it is called Lawn Order!

Preenieacks: /Preen-e-acks/ The Jones neighbors that lived next to Sliezanna were total “preenieacks” as they tirelessly worked hard to manicure their lawns and detailed their cars every single weekend. Sliezanna she was a “preenieack” about her appearance and she was living life to it’s fullest. Yet,the Jones’s next door gave her a tongue lashing about keeping her yard as nice as theirs in order to keep up the curb appeal and tax value in the neighborhood.
The next thing they knew,poor little Sliezanna fainted over them telling her just how perfect she needed to be. Sliezanna recovered from her fainting and hired a lawn service and mobile car wash company to keep up appearances so the nagging neighbors would mind their own business. All is well in the neighborhood…except for that nagging old Mrs. Jones next door that cuts her eyes every time she sees Sliezanna dressed to the 9’s and giggling as she waves goodbye to Mrs. Jones. Etymology: Preen;grooming.
ieacks;(slang); more than one person having a mania about their own preening,cleaning and grooming habits whether personal or objects that need grooming. Created by: abrakadeborah.

Comments on Preenieacks:

metrohumanx, 2009-03-17: 02:57:00
Sliezanna! Good one! Like it! Like IT!

galwaywegian, 2009-03-17: 05:54:00
good one

silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 14:35:00
In both your sentence and your word … great humor!

Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:18:00
Preenieactual description of amny neighbors people on this site have met! ANd I love the name Sliezanna, too!

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-18: 03:14:00
Thank you everyone 🙂 I love this site and the challenges to use my creative thinking! Hugs to you all!!!

Abuttinski: /ay but in skee/ In our sleepy suburban town, we had an abuttinski. She was Old Lady Burns, the bitter divorcee who lived next door to us and found fault with everything people did for enjoyment. She was the Neighbourhood Witch, the one who you could never please. If we didn’t mow the lawn when she felt it needed it, she called the Noxious Weed Dept. If we did start up the mower to tackle the lawn, she called the Noise Abatement Dept. If our dog was out in our fenced off back yard, she called the Humane Society. We came this close to having to toilet train Sparky on the potty inside. If we even started up the barbecue, we would have to ensure we had enough food for the whole fire crew, as she would call them the minute we opened the lid. If we cooked something spicy, like curry, the HazMat Team was forced on the scene. The police practically lived on our street because she called them for everything from suspicious persons going door to door (like the paper boy and mailman) to recording license plates of vehicles not know to dwell on our street (like all these enforcement officers’ vehicles from all the various city departments)and for attempted break-ins on her property (the gas meter reader,census-takers, the Avon lady). Reasoning, bribes,acts of kindness and inclusion,threats and logical persuasion all failed to change her behaviors. She was always in the right and she had her lawyer on speed-dial to launch suit over anyone who stood up to her underhanded, second-party bullying.
She would hide in her house and have every civil servant at her beck and call to do her dirty work. Being self-righteous and thinking herself an upstanding and virtuous Christian, she did speak to every religion peddlar who came to her door. Many thought it poetic justice that the horrid smell coming from her home one day was due to the fact that one of these zealots had taken exception to her smug beliefs and bashed in her cranium several weeks before and helped himself to her valuables. The police, while appearing professional, were secretly glad she no longer controlled their work duties, so they could finally concentrate on real crimes; the Fire Dept. was relieved to have an opportunity to actually fight real fires elsewhere. The moral: if you are not nice to people, there will be no one around to close your lids when your time comes! Etymology: Abut (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary) & Buttinski(a meddler who tends to butt in)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Abuttinski:

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-17: 01:37:00
Good one Nosila! :)You are a great writer!

metrohumanx, 2009-03-17: 03:16:00
I was just kidding about the brevity of “hydroflobia”….This is an excellent parable and one helluva mico-novel! I hope you’re in charge of refreshments at the upcoming First Annual International Verbotomixer and Wordswap Extravaganza!

silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 13:54:00
Amdire the way you captured that butt mentality! Great etymology. Terrific word!

Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:40:00
Cheers, all…sadly my sister and her family had to move far away from us to escape such a neighbour…coming home was the most stressful and scary part of their day, because she spent long hours plotting fresh Hell for them. This creature outlived every elected official we had and there is finally a cease and desist response in her flagged file to warn emergency services not to respond to her calls, as she became a permanent nuisance. Of course, charging her $250 for every wasted call went a long way to curbing her behavior! It is sad that someone has nothing better to do but terrorize others…personally I think she’d give the Guantanamo guys a run for their money!

silveryaspen, 2009-03-18: 12:56:00
My heart goes out to you and your sister and your families. I am so thankful that I have exceptionally good neighbors!

Neighbores: /nābôrz/ John found the people next door complete neighbores. What little personality they had is hyper-directed into lawn care. They have gone so far as to install electric fences to keep squirrels from walking on their perfectly-manicured yard. Squirrels in the trees you ask? Absolutely not! No trees! Trees are far too random in the way they grow and all that leaf dropping just won’t do. Grass clipped to 5/8 inch and a few carefully-selected flowers are all they’ll tolerate. Etymology: neighbor (a person living near or next door to the speaker or person referred to) + bores (people whose talk or behavior is dull and uninteresting) Created by: artr.

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DEFINITION: v. To increase the world’s liquid water supply (and dramatically raise the level of our oceans) by accidentally melting the polar ice caps. n. The rising seas and associated flooding due to melting ice caps.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Eaumygod: /oh maye god/ “Eaumygod! Water disaster!”
Icebergs wreck flotilla in Monaco!
full story inside Etymology: eau as in water! oh my God Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Eaumygod:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:24:00
luv that first head line! Great Create!

Ohnoah: /ooo – no – ah/ Ohnoah, Solomen yelled, the polar ice caps are melting. I better start building an Ark. Etymology: Oh and Noah plus Oh No!! Created by: rombus.

Comments on Ohnoah:

silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:22:00
Oh! So Noahtable! Puntastic, clever, delightful. Super create!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:24:00
Good one!

Hydroflobia: /hy dro flo bee ya/ You will know we are suffering from hydroflobia when polar bears and penguins start arriving on one’s doorstep, together! Etymology: Hydro (relating to water) & Flow (the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression) & Phobia (fear of something) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Hydroflobia:

metrohumanx, 2009-03-16: 01:50:00
Nice triple, N!
…but i expected more Nosila filla!
Well done.

galwaywegian, 2009-03-16: 05:04:00
loveit!

silveryaspen, 2009-03-16: 17:22:00
Gets high marks here!

Suburgia: /sÉ™bÉ™rgÄ“É™/ Life would never be the same in Frostberg. Yes, global warming had kicked in and the polar ice cap was breaking up. That just meant that suburbia was now suburgia with a full-fledged iceberg parked in the recently-developed harbor. Residents can go boating in the morning and ice climbing in the afternoon. Old-man Johnson had tried to start up a snow cone stand but most didn’t care for the salty treats. Etymology: suburbia (the suburbs or their inhabitants viewed collectively) + berg (a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet and carried out to sea) Created by: artr.

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DEFINITION: v. To exclusively use credit cards, debit cards and/or electronic banking in order to avoid using, or even touching, old fashioned cash. n. A person who never pays for anything using real money.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Debitutante: /deb it tu tant/ Deb was about to launch herself into high society in the hope of meeting an eligible young man, from an equal or better income bracket. Her mother, Mrs. Harry Bottoms Pincher III, of Fifth Avenue, Palm Beach and the Cayman Islands (or Penny, as her society chums and former chorus line peers knew her), had spared no expense in decking out the lovely Deb in a Dior gown and Tiffany jewels for the glittering soiree. Being refined as she was, Penny, had taught young Deb that La Creme de la Societe, to which they belonged, never touched vulgar cash themselves. Why, that was why one employed servants and lawyers. No, Penny had taught young Deb that it was classier to become a Debitutante and carry her boundless debit card with her at all times. It was safer than carrying cash and afterall,it was better to Heir on the side of caution… Etymology: Debutante (a young woman making her debut into society) & Debit (a card which allows you to pay for goods directly from your own bank account; an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Debitutante:

metrohumanx, 2009-03-13: 01:46:00
Hahahaha….VERY interesting approach!
Sometimes i worry about you, Nosie!
🙂

Nosila, 2009-03-13: 01:54:00
Thanks, I think, metro…sometimes I worry about you,too, but for different reasons…Cheers!

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-13: 01:59:00
I busted out LAUGHING when I saw Deb! Oh LAWD! I love you all! LOL!

metrohumanx, 2009-03-13: 02:09:00
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle- Don’t worry…give a whistle!
Always look on the sunny side of life.

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-13: 02:37:00
Thank you Nosila 🙂 You are too funny! I’m Cinderfreakinrella on Metrohumanx I’ll be Sendherafreakinfella on yours 🙂

galwaywegian, 2009-03-13: 04:31:00
hehehe

silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:42:00
Wait until Deb and her mom Penny meet Max Out! Bank up the votes for this one!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-14: 02:26:00
Very entertaining!

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-14: 19:19:00
Thanks Nosila,I voted for this word of yours 🙂 You’re hilarious!

Visaonary: /Vee-za-on-ar-ee/ Sam was considered a visaonary who heralded a world full of plastic and credit. Etymology: Visa + visionary Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Visaonary:

galwaywegian, 2009-03-13: 08:15:00
master(ard)ful!

silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:52:00
love the implied ‘now you see it, now you don’t’ by incorporating visionary in your etymology. Excellent create.

Mustang, 2009-03-14: 00:36:00
Brief, concise and to the point. Excellent word.

Plastagogo: /plast-AGOG-oh!
(plastagogian or plastagogite)/ Little Billy was alarmed at the currenseepage from his piggybank.
His eco-rrect teacher gave him a heads-up about the dangers of our vanishing specie, and when his dad told him his chore monies would be direct-deposited into an inaccesible interest-bearing account, he FREAKED! Billy called his dad a NUMISMACRETIN and ran upstairs.
Billy’s dad believed all paper money was unsanitary, and would soon become extinct. He was all PLASTAGOGGO about his custom-imprintable debit card, and vainly tried to pass his enthusiasm on to his child. But Little Billy was at that rebellious age, and vowed in his heart of hearts NEVER to become a PLASTICOINITE like his poor, misguided father. Etymology: PLASTic+AGOG+GOGO= PLASTAGOGO…..PLASTIC: made or consisting of a plastic, capable of being deformed continuously and permanently in any direction without rupture, having a quality suggestive of mass-produced plastic goods; Latin plasticus of molding, from Greek plastikos, from plassein to mold, form…..AGOG: full of intense interest or excitement, bewitched by; Middle French en gogues in mirth….GOGO: marked by spirited or aggressive action, relating to or dealing in popular often speculative investment expected to yield high returns;partly from “a-go-go”, partly from reduplication of 1 “go” 1965……Specie: money in coin; from in specie, from Latin, in kind…..Numismatic: of or relating to currency; French numismatique, from Latin nomismat-, nomisma coin, from Greek, current coin, from nomizein to use, from nomos custom, law Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Plastagogo:

metrohumanx, 2009-03-13: 02:01:00
Well, it’s friday here in Pennsylvania.
I’ve gotta go soak abrush, but I can’t wait for the avalanche of verbotomisms to roll in.
Vote early, vote often.

abrakadeborah, 2009-03-13: 02:27:00
Metrohumanx your new word today makes me want to get up and dance! But I can’t right now…but I will soon hopefully… Keep smiling 🙂
“Deb” otherwise known as Cinderfreakinrella

silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 09:48:00
Many smiles for your great creates this day! Terrific verbotomy!

Jabberwocky, 2009-03-13: 13:27:00
cudos on this one metro

metrohumanx, 2009-03-14: 00:28:00
Thanks, crew! You rock!

kateinkorea, 2009-03-14: 02:22:00
Funny!

Snubbrass: /snub-bra-ss/ Snodgrass, had avoided carrying cash for many years, when in his early childhood he contracted a weird flesh eating disease from some money exchanged in a dirty fish market. Now as he handed, with his skeletal-looking fingers, a debit card to his young son he was shocked when the boy asked. “Dad, why do all the kids at school call me a snubbrass?” Etymology: snub (avoid) + brass (sl. for coins) Created by: petaj.

Comments on Snubbrass:

petaj, 2009-03-13: 06:02:00
In the illustration, Snodgrass’s skeletal fingers are cleverly concealed in fleshy prosthetic gloves.

silveryaspen, 2009-03-13: 10:03:00
guess they aren’t penny pinchers! Very clever create!

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James

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