Tag: Verbotomy

DEFINITION: n. A person who engages themselves in several different communication channels at the same time, without paying attention to any of them v. tr. To constantly switch your focus between cellphone calls, text messages, emails, and anything else that beeps.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Macaroami: /mac-a-rome-ee/ Being the proud owner of a MacBook, an ipod and an iphone her brain became so confused that she stuck a feather in her cap and became a Macaroami!!
Etymology: mac + roam + macaroni Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Macaroami:

emdeejay, 2008-12-12: 11:34:00
A dandy doodle, Yankee 🙂

Churf: /churf/ Switcheroo Sam was doing a net surf on his lap top, with his Ipod in his left ear, and his cell phone to his right ear, text messaging on the cell phone he borrowed from his sister, with one eye on his tv, while he used his toe to switch channels on his CB radio, as his police scanner hummed in the background. He was a grand master of the churf! Etymology: CH for Channeling, u for you, and urf for surf = CHURF … meaning CHANNELING YOUrself while YOU SURF among your electronic devices. Does churfing make a person a churf serf (slave to their electronic devices), too? Created by: silveryaspen.

Comments on Churf:

Mustang, 2008-12-13: 01:32:00
Good one

OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-13: 16:17:00
Need a short word: you provided a top one.

Incelligent: /in-cell-i-gent/ It takes a sophisticated and incelligent person today to command and control a Blackberry which is a able to act as a computer, phone, emailer, texter, gamer, GPSer, car starter, baby listening device, hair brush, electric shaver, nail filer and make-up mirror all in one and all at the same time while you’re driving to work and eating breakfast.

Etymology: INCELLIGENT – from CELL + INTELLIGENT Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Incelligent:

silveryaspen, 2008-12-12: 12:17:00
Truly great create for it incorporates the essence of the brain power involved.

Mustang, 2008-12-13: 01:33:00
I like it.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-13: 16:18:00
Very good.

Ediot: /Ä“dÄ“É™t/ Rudy is addicted to his electronic toys. If he wasn’t texting someone, he was checking his e-mail, browsing the internet or blogging. He might even be found creating a nonsense word for some silly online game. Despite all these connections Rudy is an ediot. He has no idea what is going on in the real world. Obama elected? He didn’t even know there was an election until several days after the fact. Etymology: e (electronic) + idiot (a stupid person) Created by: artr.

Comments on Ediot:

Nosila, 2008-12-12: 16:15:00
Perfect word, artr!

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DEFINITION: v. tr. To endlessly seek compliments by insulting oneself or by complaining about the difficulty of one’s life. n. A person who uses self-deprecation as flattery bate.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Memecry: /Me me cry/ Gemma dreaded this part, the part of the evening when some idiot asked Joanne how she was. There was almost an audible pause in the hubbub of conversation in the room as the collective consciousness of those present registered the newcomers’ error. And there was the indrawing of breath before the compliment-begging whine, how bad she was at her job, how fat she felt, how hard-done-by she was by all those people who took advantage of her sooo generous nature. It was not long before the party moved onto the balcony despite the cold outside. “Right, if he does that again, nobody invite that guy to the christmas party.” said David, joining Gemma at the railing. “Nevermind him, why don’t we just not invite the source of all that memecry?” Etymology: Me, me it’s all about ME! My life is so terrible and no-body loves me, if someone doesn’t compliment me I think I’ll cry!
Mimicry – pretense or acting to benefit onesself; “playing” the victim.. Created by: dochanne.

Comments on Memecry:

Nosila, 2008-12-11: 02:16:00
ME-arvellous word. EconoMEcal and ME-ticulous.

emdeejay, 2008-12-11: 02:43:00
I like how Gemma is carrying the self-deprecation meme. Good one, Doc 😉

Egotsk: /ee-go-tisk/ Brian: If I could just lose ten pounds, I could really pull off this outfit.

Edgar: Egotsk, dude–you know damn well you look hot in that cardigan! Etymology: Egoist(conceited, boastfil person) + Tsk (a declaration of disdain) Created by: nickmarziani.

Comments on Egotsk:

petaj, 2008-12-11: 02:07:00
nice and concise

Mustang, 2008-12-11: 07:14:00
Cute, and very good verboticism

timlumber1, 2008-12-13: 17:11:00
I dont like your word! Sorry dude!

timlumber1, 2008-12-14: 05:07:00
I think your ego got in the way, it was your ego-tisk HAHA please try again!

Whambamboozle: /waem-baem-bu-zEl/ Wifey: I wish this dress didn’t make me fat.

Hubby: I wish, too. Would you please stop whambamboozling? For the umpteenth times, you look absolutely gorgeous in that Prada dress! Etymology: 1) Wham: hit hard;

2) Bamboozle: conceal one’s true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end. Created by: logarithm.

Egotrolling: /ˈēgōtroʊling

/ Susy’s self-esteem had taken a battering during her lifetime. It started with her parents letting her know that her birth had been an accident, the aftermath of an open-bar company christmas party. Her response was egotrolling. Much like a skilled fisherman, she would cast out a baited line to see what she could catch. Her line?: “I’m not very good (whatever) Her bait?: a sad pouty face. Etymology: ego (a person’s sense of self-importance) trolling (to fish by trailing a baited line behind a boat) Created by: artr.

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DEFINITION: v. intr. To leave your pet, child or lover in the care of a friend or relative who teaches them a stupid trick or bad habit. n. A stupid trick or bad habit learned from a caregiver.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Cusstodian: /kÉ™sˈtōdÄ“É™n/ Sending Billy to spend the Summer with his Grandpa seemed like a great idea at first. It turns out that PaPa is a terrific cusstodian. Sally sent away a cute, sweet 4-year old and retrieved a foul-mouth terror. The first inkling she had was when asked Billy to help collect and load his stuff into the car. “Get it yourself, bitch!”. She was stunned. PaPa’s snickering didn’t make her feel any better. Etymology: cuss (an offensive word or phrase used to express anger or annoyance) custodian (somebody who is in charge or looks after something or someone) Created by: artr.

Comments on Cusstodian:

wayoffcenter, 2008-12-10: 08:34:00
My dad taught my kids how to spit for distance!!! Great word!

Guest, 2008-12-10: 12:06:00
Clever!

Nosila, 2008-12-10: 21:36:00
Dang it that’s a good word!

Mustang, 2008-12-10: 22:46:00
Good one..reminds me of Uncle Phil.

Rolemuddle: /Rohl-MUHD-l/ No, no, don’t give up. I must put the words into my mind’s blender. Beaugross; Impravity; Paracretinize. Damn it, they haven’t mixed too well, have they? I must stick to my system to the letter. Faginize -that’s a new twist. Don’t panic; don’t despair. I gotta keep my negativity in check. Peccachickie, braternize, “wickedpedia”. I give up, it’s all skyscrimble. My mind’s in a muddle, a muddle, a muddle. Muddle – that’s something a bit more like it – that’s it, I think I’ve got it: “rolemuddle”.

Etymology: ROLEMUDDLE: role: part played by a person in life; Muddle: to cause to be confused, mixed up; to muddy
Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Rolemuddle:

Guest, 2008-12-10: 12:04:00
Great word!

emdeejay, 2008-12-10: 19:22:00
Very clever!

Jabberwocky, 2008-12-11: 05:53:00
terrific

Cawrupt: /caw rupt/ My biggest pollygripe about picking up my pet parrot,Polly Walnuts, from my brother after my vacation was to find that he tried to cawrupt the Gullible bird. Instead of saying his usual “Polly wanna cracker”, my brother taught him to swear and to answer the phone and impersonate others. He’d say his name was Capt.Jack Sparrow or Peter Finch or Walter Pigeon or Bird Reynolds or Jay Leno or Dan Quail or Denny Crane or Robin Leach or Russell Crow or Feather Locklear or Placido Flamingo. He also taught him rude sentences like, “Come over and I’ll show you a cockatoo” or “You should see the big Parakeets in the next cage” and “You’re a Raven Loonatic”. One thing about birds is that you cannot unteach them to say something once it is wired into their tiny brains on a Condor that they aren’t too Swift and that is something that is very hard to Swallow! Etymology: corrupt (alter from the original;place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; containing errors or alterations)& Caw (a sound made by birds) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Cawrupt:

Mustang, 2008-12-10: 22:48:00
That gave your parrot something to crow about.

mweinmann, 2008-12-11: 18:27:00
This is funny….got my vote…

Habetapet: /ha – bet – ah – pet/ Jerry regretted that he had participated in habetapet after leaving his dog, Gina with his friend Craig.
He felt that it was really his fault that she had picked up several new bad behaviors, like jumping on everyone who walked through the door, excessive begging and worse of all, he had taught her how to flirt…..if that was possible. Etymology: A combination of Habit with a twisted spelling (a behavior that is repeated) + abet (to aid or encourage, usually in some wrong doing) + Pet (a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement) Created by: mweinmann.

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DEFINITION: n., A person so enamored with the holidays that they don’t just deck their halls and home, but they also decorate their car, their cubicle, their pets, and themselves. v. tr., To obsessively decorate according to seasonal holidays.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Tinselclown: /tinsəlkloun/ Gloria is such a tinselclown. She rarely has enough decorations for her Christmas tree because she is wearing most of them starting the day after Thanksgiving. Others call it Black Friday. She calls it Sparkle Friday. You should see her at Easter. Etymology: tinsel (a form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil) + clown (a comical, silly, playful person) Derivative of Tinseltown (Hollywood, or the superficially glamorous world it represents) Created by: artr.

Comments on Tinselclown:

silveryaspen, 2008-12-09: 11:19:00
Yule (you’ll) log in warmth and laughter with this excellent verbotomy

Guest, 2008-12-09: 13:52:00
Funny stuff!

Bauballer: /Bah ball er/ Miss L Toe, the lady snowman loved Christmas. She had a ball (well actually, she had three very nice ones) buying lots of Christmas balls.
She used them for buttons instead of lumps of coal, and even for her eyes
and nose. Miss L Toe put them on the trees, hung them from the street lights, car antennas, any where to please. She pinned them on the jackets of all who came to see her, too. She was the greatest bauballer of all Etymology: BAUBLE, BALL, ALL, ER Bauble – synonym for decoration. Ball – round Christmas ornaments, also means to have fun as in have a ball (and any sexual connotations I leave to your imaginations). All – everthing and everyone as in where she put them. Er – a suffix meaning somebody who performs a particular action. Created by: silveryaspen.

Ornamaximental: /or – nah – max – e – men – tal/ As I drove through the snowy, picturesque streets of my home town, coming back to spend the holidays with the family, I turned the corner and could see my childhood home. My mom had gone all ornamaximental again. Our home cast a halo of light which could be seen over the top of the hill. There must have been 20,000 lights everywhere, inluding trees, bushes, lawn decorations and even figurines on the roof. It was the same way when I was a kid. Our house glowed for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter, July 4th and sometimes even Valentine’s Day. Etymology: This word has several other words incorporated. Ornamental has maxi inside of it. Also, ornate and ornament are prefixes. In the middle are max, maximum. Also as a suffix, mental can be added to signify someone who is a bit “over the top”. Ornate (elaborately ornamented, often to excess; flashy, flowery or showy) Ornament, Ornamental (a decoration, serving the purpose of decoration or beauty ) + Maximum (the largest possible quantity) + Mental (Mind, the collective aspects of intellect and consciousness, affected by a disorder of the mind) Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Ornamaximental:

silveryaspen, 2008-12-09: 11:04:00
Very nice etymology, especially the mentality of it all.

Nosila, 2008-12-09: 23:15:00
Maximental sentimental! Great word

Jinglehells: /Jingle hells/ On my way to work,
Just a normal day.
Here we go again…
Trinkets in the way!

Ditsy colleagues hang,
Tinsel by the score.
Don’t they realise we are not children anymore?

OH! … Etymology: Jingle Bells. Everyone sing along! Created by: emdeejay.

Comments on Jinglehells:

petaj, 2008-12-10: 05:50:00
you have a touch of the bah humbugs there!

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DEFINITION: n. The feeling of anxiety created by the realization that you’ve arrived at a social event “wearing the wrong thing”. v. intr. To arrive at a social function and suddenly realize that you are you are completely overdressed or worse — underdressed!

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Apparalysed: /Apparel eyes’d/ Todd was a creative and exuberant fellow whose wardrobe was so extensive, it had been described by his friends as being “Bigger than Texas”. Unfortunately, his addiction to fashion had grown to be a very expensive habit, and had begun to place a great strain on his relationship with Betsy, his far more conservative partner. In an attempt to spice things up, Todd raced home one evening and adorned himself with a rather fetching pair of magenta underpants. Just as he was about to wrap himself in his favourite leopardskin loincloth, Betsy burst in, aghast! Poor Todd. He was normally apparalysed after he’d arrived at the party, not before he’d finished getting dressed! Etymology: Apparel: see clothing. Paralysed: see Todd. Created by: emdeejay.

Comments on Apparalysed:

dochanne, 2008-12-08: 04:04:00
Especially like the “eyes’d”, as the magenta speedos have real impact on the vicariously apparelysed observer.

silveryaspen, 2008-12-08: 13:03:00
Captivating Create. Captures that feeling when everyone is staring, that makes us unable to move.

Grossdressing: /grow ss dreh sing/ His grossdressing is so bad he’d look out of place at an Abba concert Etymology: gross dressing, crossdressing Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Grossdressing:

Nosila, 2008-12-08: 23:22:00
Does his mother know that he’s out? Great word!

Blunderwear: /Blunder-wair/ Jamie was nervous about the party, having been unable to conduct any dresspionage, and opted for the cautious option of black. As she entered the room, she saw a sea of bright colours, frills and big hair. Bright sparkling sequins flashed as Brad approached, feathers in his hair. Oh, dear, she thought, having just now remembered what the party was for. Her hembarassment was not finished yet though, as the ankle-length number was downright prudish and her dear friend put his shining arm around her and announced to the room “And here’s my darling Jamie – the queen of Blunderwear!”. The room exploded with laughter and Jamie sank into an abyss of frockxiety and gloom. Etymology: Blunder – to err or make an obvious mistake; Wear – what you are wearing when you blunder into undresspionaged situations. Created by: dochanne.

Comments on Blunderwear:

silveryaspen, 2008-12-08: 12:47:00
Great create. So straight forward, you immediately know what it means.

Nosila, 2008-12-08: 23:14:00
Seams like a great word and threads its way through your yarn like a fancy notion … that Brad is such a Baste-ard!

mweinmann, 2008-12-09: 10:37:00
That Brad, what a fair feather friend he turned out to be….great word!!

Speedono: /spÄ“dō nō/ Murray hated the English language, at least as far as his new bosses use of it on the recent party invitation was concerned. When he read pool party he saw himself really impressing the secretarial pool with his tight 6-pack and stories of his college swim team accomplishments. Instead he had an unfortunate speedono moment. He saw a pool as he drove up to the house so as soon as he got inside he found a bathroom and jetisoned the shorts and t-shirt. As he strode into the room with the pool table he understood that the picture on the invitation was intended to be an 8 ball not a beach ball. Turns out the pool belonged to the neighbor. It was bad enough that he was so badly underdressed, but his buddy Paul kept shouting about “racking up those balls”. All he could do was laugh and try to regain a modicum of dignity along with his clothing. As he waited to get back into the now occupied bathroom, he could only think, “What’s wrong with the word billiards?” Etymology: Speedo (Swimsuit brand known for their brevity) Oh No (an expression of error) Created by: artr.

Comments on Speedono:

dochanne, 2008-12-08: 04:10:00
The majority of people wearing Speedos cause speedono in others!

wayoffcenter, 2008-12-08: 04:54:00
The thought of someone playing pool (billiards) in a Speedo makes my blood run cold. Just me?

silveryaspen, 2008-12-08: 12:43:00
You were really on the ball with this one.

Nosila, 2008-12-08: 23:27:00
As if on cue…another great story!

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