Tag: Creativity

DEFINITION: n. The strong feelings of devotion and affection which a person feels towards their favorite mechanical device or appliance, such as a car, boat, power tool, or toilet. v. intr. To lavish a machine with affection, attention and an imagined personality.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Transamorous: /tran zam oh russ/ He was very transamorous. whch was probably just as well, as he resembled the back end of one of their 70’s creations Etymology: transam amorous Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Transamorous:

Jabberwocky, 2009-01-19: 15:47:00
nice combo

silveryaspen, 2009-01-19: 18:57:00
Well-crafted!

OZZIEBOB, 2009-01-20: 04:21:00
Nice word

Inanemotion: /inanimōshÉ™n/ Suzy is the light of Bob’s life. She fills that void left by the fact that he can’t have children of his own. He spends more time with her than he does with his wife. She makes him smile every time he sees her. She fills him with inanemotion. Suzy is Bob’s car. Etymology: inanimate (not alive) + emotion (any of the particular feelings that characterize such a state of mind, such as joy, anger, love, hate, horror, etc.) Created by: artr.

Comments on Inanemotion:

metrohumanx, 2009-01-19: 15:53:00
Car-amba !

Autodolatry: /aw-toe-dol-uh-tree/ Jason spent every Saturday and Sunday cleaning, vacuuming, washing, waxing and detailing every square inch of his Alfa Romeo sports car, a car at the cutting edge of design and technology, which he truly, madly and deeply loved. Jason’s wife called it out and out autodolarty.

Etymology: AUTODOLATRY – noun from AUTO (automobile) + IDOLATRY (worship of idols; excessive, or blind adoration)

Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Autodolatry:

metrohumanx, 2009-01-19: 15:55:00
Someone just crashed into my 75 Alfetta sedan. She’s-a-no more.

silveryaspen, 2009-01-19: 18:45:00
Clever!

Mustang, 2009-01-19: 22:19:00
Good one!

OZZIEBOB, 2009-01-20: 04:22:00
terrific

Contraptionation: /con-trap-shun-AY-shun/ Edwin had a serious case of contraptionation for his cars and garden machines that could well be described as a superstitious infatuation.
Etymology: Blend of contraption and fascination Created by: Mustang.

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James

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DEFINITION: n. A person who constantly corrects other people’s grammar. v. intr. To habitually correct the grammar of everyone with whom you speak regardless of the social context or the minuteness the perceived error.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Parsnickety: /par-SNIK-ety/ Being a stickler for grammar, Miriam was always quick to correct even the most insignificant grammatical blunders, and was especially critical of her boyfriend, Maxim, whose grammar skills were particularly weak. Etymology: Blend of ‘parse’ (To break (a sentence) down into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
) and ‘persnickety’ (Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious) Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Parsnickety:

silveryaspen, 2009-01-16: 02:09:00
Excellent!

Jabberwocky, 2009-01-16: 16:14:00
love it

Nosila, 2009-01-16: 20:49:00
He should MAXIMize Miriam’s skills as his own personal editor…great word.

Correctolingweenie: /cur-RECT-ALL-linguine/ Maxine and Clem were deeply in like. Clem was always sanguine and adored Maxine’s crimson clothing and gutsy attitude. Maxine had moxie, but she was constantly irritated by Clem’s use of the word “less” instead of “fewer”. Maxine flew into a rage when she heard someone say “podiums” instead of the correct plural form, “podia”…Yes, Clem may have been an unsophisticated proto-boor, but Maxine was an unbearable CORRECTOLINGWEENIE -and an unwanted voluntary proofreader for all the world’s bad grammar. When they inevitably broke up, Maxine found that she had less friends than before, and Clem had fewer fun, despite shaving off his sideburns and growing a unibrow. Etymology: Okay, try to bear with me on this one……….CORRECTOL+LINGuist+WEENIE=
CORRECTOLINGWEENIE…CORRECT:to make or set right,to amend,to alter or adjust so as to bring to some standard,to point out usually for amendment the errors or faults,to punish (as a child) with a view to reforming or improving; Middle English, from Latin correctus, past participle of corrigere, from com- + regere to lead straight…ALL:the whole amount, quantity or extent of,as much as possible; Middle English all, al, from Old English eall; akin to Old High German all…CORRECTOL: The Woman’s Gentle Laxative.” Its slogan: “For Gentle, Dependable overnight relief”…LINGUIST:a person who believes they are accomplished in languages;Latin lingua language, tongue…LINGUINE: a hot Italian dish, tasty and hard to resist;Italian, plural of linguina, diminutive of lingua tongue, from Latin…WEENIE:alteration of wienie, Informal. A wiener; Slang. A person who is regarded as being dorklike yet not subject to ordinary social inhibitions (tweaked). Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Correctolingweenie:

metrohumanx, 2009-01-16: 01:41:00
http://drminz.com/v4/random4.html

metrohumanx, 2009-01-16: 08:03:00
SAY IT!
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.

Nosila, 2009-01-16: 20:50:00
Your etymology is logical, Mr. Spock!

Grammarcracker: /gramerkraker/ James hates e-mail, not for its intrusive nature but the way most people use it. Worse yet is text messaging. (He refuses to call it texting) When someone sends him a message, he replies with a corrected edition of the original message with commas, hyphens, spelling and proper verb tense. He won’t respond to the content until the originator sends it back in its corrected form. His friends have started calling him a grammarcracker. He is amused by the term but won’t actually type it because it isn’t in the dictionary. Etymology: grammar (the whole system and structure of a language) + cracker (a fine example of something) Created by: artr.

Comments on Grammarcracker:

wayoffcenter, 2009-01-16: 04:46:00
I h8 txtn 2.

silveryaspen, 2009-01-16: 10:12:00
And a very nice play on graham crackers!

Nosila, 2009-01-16: 20:44:00
Show them no Grammercy!

Wrecktify: /Rek ti fy/ Killsay was excellent at morphemes and constituents. He was born a Grammar. Killsay was very in tense, and always in the accusative. He was overly generous in sharing his grammar. Killsay would restruckture the speecch of any one. No was was safe from his guydance (guidance) … shuffling his feet, waving his finger, tweaking your verbose, nitpicking through one’s words … he would wrectify everything said. Etymology: RECTIFY, WRECK. RECTIFY – correct, amend, revise. WRECK – to damage and destroy with too much revision. — (Morphemes are basic word-building units. Constituents are sentence-building units. They are true grammatical words, not verbotomies.) Killsay Grammar is a pun on actor Kelsey Grammer, star of the tv show Frasier. Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Wrecktify:

Mustang, 2009-01-16: 04:17:00
Bet she had a bad rectutation….

mweinmann, 2009-01-16: 08:12:00
After she irritates enough people, she might turn a wreckluse.

silveryaspen, 2009-01-16: 10:03:00
Thank you for the clever comments. But Killsay is a he … not a she! Men are guilty of doing this, too!

Jabberwocky, 2009-01-16: 16:16:00
nice

Nosila, 2009-01-16: 20:43:00
Killsay Grammar…love it!

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James

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DEFINITION: n. Anxiety created by an inability to understand or follow the regulations for recycling, composting and garbage collection. v. intr. To feel confused and conflicted because you produce too much garbage and don’t know how to get rid of it.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Repsychled: /rÄ“sÄ«kÉ™ld/ Friday is coming again and Mrs. Green is freaking out. Sure, she read all the regulations about what to throw out and what can be put in the sacred blue bin but she is completely repsychled out. It doesn’t help that the rules have been changed several times in the past year. With her mother scheduled to come for a visit, she has vowed to stop hiding her trash in the guest room. Etymology: recycle (convert (waste) into reusable material) + psyched out (intimidated) Created by: artr.

Comments on Repsychled:

Mustang, 2009-01-16: 01:24:00
Excellent!!

Dumpfound: /DUHUMP-found/ “What if we should stack it higher than we did last week?” Roxie observed; “we are already somewhat short of space.”
“I don’t think he would have left us this size bin if he thought that was going to happen,” said Bob; “he knows all about these things. He’s a cagey fellow, Mr Dregnought; how he came to find out about those paint tins, batteries and our entire plastic record collection of Tiny Tim’s greatest hits were in there, is beyond my telling.” Perhaps it was a drossoverreaction, but they didn’t feel comfortable as they saw their taboo of trash, like a tsunami, rising higher and higher, and began to feel dumpfounded, and considered that, after all, it might have been better to have tried to dispose of their gargantua of garbage some other way. Etymology: Blend of Dump & dumbfound Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Dumpfound:

silveryaspen, 2009-01-15: 12:36:00
Great sentence. Clever word!

Jabberwocky, 2009-01-15: 13:22:00
great word

Nosila, 2009-01-15: 23:59:00
Talk trash to us…great word!

mweinmann, 2009-01-16: 10:08:00
Great word… I was all excited because I had created dumpfounded and then I checked and saw you already had this one!!!!

Apgreenhension: /ap-green-hen-shun/ With all the new recycle rules, the tree huggers are filled with total apgreenhension every garbage day. Etymology: APGREENHENSION – noun – from APPREHENSION (anticipation of adversity) + GREEN (environmentally aware) Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Apgreenhension:

silveryaspen, 2009-01-15: 12:34:00
Anything green these days will win a popularity contest! Great create!

Discomposture: /dis-com-post-yur
/ I hurried down the street with my sunglasses on, listening to my ipod, so that none of the neighbours would notice my discomposture after I had hastily stashed a plastic muffin tray in the recycling bin. It did have a recyling symbol on it but I wasn’t sure if the number was acceptable or not.
Etymology: discomposure + compost + dis (as in disrespect) Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Discomposture:

silveryaspen, 2009-01-15: 12:41:00
Too true!

Mustang, 2009-01-16: 01:23:00
Sounds like the makings of great gardening soil

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James

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DEFINITION: v. intr. To arrive at a meeting completely unprepared and then work diligently and obviously to distract yourself from the proceedings. n. A person who attends a meeting but does not believe that they are paid enough to pay attention.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Nontributor: /non – trib – you – tore/ When Lenny didn’t get the raise he thought he deserved, he became a nontributor at all of the meetings he was forced to attend. He brought in nothing that could be interpreted as a contribution to the meeting. Instead, he brought in crossword books, playing cards or even his Nintendo DS. Once in awhile, he would say something like “does anyone know a four letter word for someone who misbehaves in company meetings ending in the letter K?” Or “Yes, the Red Jack goes on the Black Queen”, just to irritate those who made him attend. Etymology: Contributor (To help bring about a result; act as a factor, giving in common with others for a common purpose) + Non (Negative form of a word or group of words) Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Nontributor:

Jabberwocky, 2009-01-14: 11:31:00
excellent

Spectraitor: /spec-tray-tur/ John attended the morning meeting merely as a spectraitor. He successfully sabotaged establishing the agenda for the day.
Etymology: spectator (onlooker) + traitor (subversive element)
Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Spectraitor:

silveryaspen, 2009-01-14: 12:03:00
Excellent!

TJayzz, 2009-01-14: 15:29:00
great word

Recalcityroaf: /ree-cal-sit-TIE-roaf
(recalcityroafette)/ The Library Dominatrix had forced Jeff to abandon his personal feifdom and attend a typically bogus meeting at the Megastructure. Unkemp and unconcerned, Jeff was only a RECALCI-TYROAF compared to the rest of us who had suffered through endless vapid meetings totally devoid of meaning or productivity. Jeff’s casual insolence marked him for what he was…a mere amateur at the subtle art of boss-baiting. His five-minute Pornopoint Presentation only brought him a week in the cooler. Years of administrative harassment had converted our workplace into an academic version of a prisoner of war camp, and our subtle sarcasm, subliminal suggestions and underground campaign of disinformation had led to the total breakdown of more than one camp administrator. Totally lacking subtlety, Jeff’s blatant insolence and goon-baiting drew the Commandant’s attention while we discreetly falsified memos, released budgies, and planted several alarm clocks timed to disrupt our annual Staff Appreciation Day. So even a RECALCI-TYROAF has a place in the great SCHEME of things. They never DID discover the tunnel. Etymology: RECALCItrant+TYRo+OAF=RECALCITYROAF….RECALCITRANT:: obstinately defiant of authority or restraint,difficult to manage or train,not responsive to treatment; Late Latin recalcitrant-, recalcitrans, present participle of recalcitrare to be stubbornly disobedient, from Latin, to kick back, from re- + calcitrare to kick, from calc-, calx heel…..TYRO:a beginner in learning,one inept at insubordination;Medieval Latin, from Latin tiro young soldier, tyro…..OAF:a stupid person, a boob,a big clumsy slow-witted person; alteration of auf, alfe goblin’s child, probably from Middle English alven, elven elf, fairy, from Old English elfen nymphs; akin to Old English ælf elf. Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Recalcityroaf:

metrohumanx, 2009-01-14: 01:21:00
Rats! The word “city” seems too pronounced- I wanted more emphasis on “tyro”. I’ll try to do better, gang.

metrohumanx, 2009-01-14: 02:05:00
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Mustang, 2009-01-14: 17:57:00
I tried to say that three times and broke my tongue….but I still like it.

Attendunce: /att en dunsssss/ His attendunce record snored for itself Etymology: attendance dunce
Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Attendunce:

silveryaspen, 2009-01-14: 12:12:00
Excellent! Simply great and easy to remember. luv the sentence, too.

readerwriter, 2009-01-14: 15:57:00
I like this word and voted for it. But wonder if we worry about the words being the “right” parts of speech as called for…

Nosila, 2009-01-15: 00:12:00
Great…I’m sure we all atend meetings with these duds, I mean dudes!

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DEFINITION: n. The moment of loss, hesitation and confusion, which occurs when you enter a room and immediately forget why. v. intr. To forget why you entered a room.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Damnesia: /damnÄ“zhÉ™/ Charlie would often have bouts of damnesia where he would get up from what he was doing to get something and then forget what he meant to get. This occurrence would inevitably elicit his favorite expletive, “Damn!”. Most of the time returning to the starting point would refresh the thought but not always. Those were the moments that worried him the most. Etymology: Damn (exclamation expressing anger, surprise, or frustration) + amnesia (a partial or total loss of memory) Created by: artr.

Comments on Damnesia:

wayoffcenter, 2009-01-13: 06:08:00
I started to write something clever… Oh, well!

metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:51:00
Damned clever!

silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:06:00
Damn good!

Nosila, 2009-01-13: 19:48:00
Damnesia is that what happens to beavers and muskrats when they forget where they live???

Whereamibouts: /ware-am-I-bouts/ I enter a room – I look around – I am faced with the eternal question – whereamIbouts?
Etymology: whereabouts + where am I + bouts (of forgetfulness)
Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Whereamibouts:

silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:21:00
luv the etymology and word … cries out like the lost child in all of us when this happens!

Dismembory: /diss-MEM-burr-eee/ Queen Jane tried to remind herself not to forget to remember something important as she entered the throne room. Just behind her forehead, urgent thoughts rattled around like mexican jumping beans about to hatch.The words “oral hygiene” were on the tip of her tongue, but that wasn’t it. It might have something to do with the supersubmicroscopic spider crawling up the tiles, but she just couldn’t put her finger on it. Perhaps her medication was causing this DISMEMBORY. Her thoughts drifted through her mind like dust motes in the fluid of her sight. WHAT exactly was she supposed to remember? The 39 Steps that could render an aircraft engine completely silent? Queen Jane couldn’t even recall where she had mislaid that potato chip. The odd thing was, she could recall the numbers to her combination lock in high school, but not what she did in the kitchen five minutes ago…Perhaps if she re-traced her steps, it would come rushing back to her like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist. What was it? The McGuffen? Who knows? Etymology: DISMEMBer+memORY=DISMEMBORY…..
DISMEMBER:to break up or tear into pieces, especially brain cells,to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of one’s profound thoughts; Middle English dismembren, from Anglo-French desmembrer, from des- dis- + membre member…..MEMORY:a particular act of recall or recollection, the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and sometimes forgotten, especially through associative mechanisms, the store of things learned and retained from an organism’s activity or experience as evidenced by modification of structure or behavior or by recall and recognition; Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French memoire, memorie, from Latin memoria, from memor mindful; akin to Old English gemimor well-known, Greek mermÄ“ra care, Sanskrit smarati “she remembers”. Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Dismembory:

metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:42:00
How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?

metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:48:00
Uhhh…I was going to write something clever here, but I forgot what it was.

mweinmann, 2009-01-13: 11:24:00
cleverness is evading me also but this word is clever enough!!

silveryaspen, 2009-01-13: 12:04:00
Immediately upon saying this word, couldn’t help but think ‘dismembered’ memory! Captures the fright in losing the mind!

Jabberwocky, 2009-01-13: 12:07:00
in answer to your question – very far

Nosila, 2009-01-13: 19:46:00
Memories, all alone in the moonlight is nostalgic, but it sounds like a comedy when you sing Dismembories, all alone on a long flight from Winnipeg to Montreal…

Forgentrance: /for – gent – trance/ As soon as I walked into the kitchen, I began to forgentrance the purpose of it all. The coffee was made, the dog was fed, the dishes were washed….but why oh why was I here? Etymology: I saw many words in this one….Forget (be unable to remember) + Forge (To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward, to forge ahead) + Entrance (The action of entering, or going in; The place of entering, as a gate or doorway) + Trance (a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing) Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Forgentrance:

Mustang, 2009-01-14: 00:00:00
Been there, done that…..but dont remember when.

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James

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