Tag: Verbotomy

DEFINITION: v., To seek out old acquaintances even though you never really knew them that well, or liked them very much, in the first place.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Dejadupe: /deja-dupe/ Joe was a victim and total loser in high school and fifteen years has passed. He discovered Face-Book and began seeking out and contacting “old friendships and acquaintances” only to find he was dejaduping himself and renewing hostilities toward himself.

Etymology: DEJADUPE – verb – from DEJA VU (an impression of having seen, or experienced something before) + DUPE (a person who is easily deceived, or victimized)

Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Dejadupe:

metrohumanx, 2008-09-02: 12:31:00
Cutting and concise….good word, S.O.

Lackquaint: /lak waint/ After 20 years out of school, Dick decided to lackquaint himself with the people in his senior year. What on earth made him think that two decades would erase their memories of him? He had been Treasurer of the Chess Club, Ping-pong champion semi-finalist,Audio-Visual Co-ordinator, President of the Star Trek Fan Club, Secretary of the Slide-Rule Club and First-Aider Team Member. He had honors in Math, Science, Physics and Algebra, but had flunked Social Dance, Poetry Writing and Personal Hygiene & Development Class. Dick had not been popular at school, surprising considering his many achievements,and had no dates. He had had a crush on a cute redhead called Ruth, who was of course, a cheerleader, star of the school’s musical production of “Bye, Bye, Birdie”, drum majorette and President of the Future Stewardesses Club. If she knew Dick was alive or remotely interested, she never let on. She had later married the school football team’s quarterback,Ned and lived the suburban dream. When the 20 year reunion day arrived, Dick was excited to meet all his old “friends” from high school and lackquaint himself again with them all, including Ruth. Arriving at the school’s gaily decorated gymnasium, he was astounded to see that many had aged, the years had added pounds on everyone and bald or greying heads on paunchy men prevailed. One of these men was Ned and Dick was disturbed to learn that Ruth had left Ned after two years and three kids to run off and be a showgirl in Las Vegas. Yes, that reunion for Dick had been a Ruth-less one! Etymology: lack (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;be without) & acquaint (cause to come to know personally;make familiar)& acquaintance (personal knowledge or information about someone or something; a person with whom you are acquainted;a relationship less intimate than friendship)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Lackquaint:

metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:44:00
Great mini-saga, babe!

Goneraquest: /gahn-AIR-uh-kwest/ Dorian began his GONERAQUEST one gray evening when he got spammed by Classmates.com…first he had to ressurectify their names from the dim recesses of his faulty membanks. Using Anywho and Google, he reanimated the memories of his troubled youth and e-mailed the lot. All the yammering yokels of yesteryear were at the reunion, including his old crush, Peggy- whose orange hair erupted like a lava flow from a long-dormant volcano. Quickly quaffing quantities of questionable punch, a dismayed Dorian deduced that his GONERAQUEST had gone awfully awry. It all came rushing back to him like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist. He never really liked these people in high school, and the years had not been kind to them as they ripened into paunchy portraits of their former selves. Dorian schlumped home and took a fatal dose of repentathol – never to GONERAQUEST again. Etymology: GONe+ERA+QUEST=GONERAQUEST…..GONE:possessed with a strong attachment or a foolish or unreasoning love or desire-from past participle of go…..ERA:fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned; a memorable or important date or event; especially : a period in the history of a person-Late Latin aera, from Latin, counters…..QUEST:an act or instance of seeking; a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey and an alcohol-drenched pseudofestival -Middle English, from Anglo-French queste. Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Goneraquest:

metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:47:00
See ancient webites archived at:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
-it’s a blast from the past.

metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:55:00
You can go Verbotomize back to 2006…but don’t forget the “forward slash”.

Nosila, 2008-09-02: 01:54:00
Gone but not forgotten…that’s our quest!

Sighschoolreunion: /sye skool ree ewe nyun/ His sighschoolreunion only proved to him how right he was to get out of town the moment he graduated. Etymology: high school reunion, sigh Created by: galwaywegian.

Comments on Sighschoolreunion:

Nosila, 2008-09-02: 01:57:00
So if he Face-booked some he’dbe a Sighbernaut?? Great Word, galwaywegian!

Jabberwocky, 2008-09-02: 05:58:00
funny

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DEFINITION: n., Cautionary advice provided by parents to their children, often makes no logical sense but carries enough emotional weight to affect the child’s behavior.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Radmomition: /rad MOM ish in/ Growing up in an Irish household,the 6 siblings were all raised on a solid diet of good old radmomition. This included an assorted mix of superstitions (spilling salt requires you to throw some over your left shoulder), Aesop’s fables(remember that grasshopper and the ant?), lessons from the Bible(Thou shalt not lie about who ate the baking out of the freezer) and old wives’ tales(if you tell a lie, your nose will grow), guaranteed to scare even the toughest know-it-all kid into submission. It was never really understood how putting a hat on the bed or opening an umbrella indoors would bring about bad luck; how stepping on a crack could break your mother’s back or how licking a frosty metal fence would make your tongue stick to it. (Okay, that on was really true, as one brother found out the hard way)! Yet all these tools were used by their mother to great effectiveness. People marvelled at how well-behaved 6 kids could be out in public. But one look from their Mom’s omnipresent eye could nail them to a couch for hours on end, quietly, without a hint of physical persuasion. Santa’s elves were watching you just before Christmas time (I mean really, weren’t they too busy making toys?); God would be mad to learn you did not put your coins on the offering plate in Church (like does he count it all?)If there was no known adage to affect a situation, she simply would make one up. It was not until they were into their teens that they discovered the Ice Cream Man going around the neighbourhood played his twinkly songs when he still had goodies left to sell. They had always been told that the music was a sign he was sold out. The irony was that all these siblings went through higher education, got responsible jobs and used exactly the same radmomition tactics on their own children and grandchildren…May you be half an hour in Heaven before the Devil knows you’re dead! Etymology: Radical (a person who has out there ideas or opinions;used of opinions and actions far beyond the norm) & Admonition (cautionary advice about something imminent;counsel in terms of someone’s behavior;warn strongly; put on guard) & Mom (female parent)& Superstition (an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear;folklore;omens of good and bad luck)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Radmomition:

metrohumanx, 2008-08-29: 05:56:00
Oh MAN!!!!…You mean the ice cream man WASN’T sold out?

metrohumanx, 2008-08-29: 08:11:00
“Mom’s omnipresent eye”….great turn of a phrase, Nosette. 🙂

Tigger, 2008-08-29: 10:34:00
Actual advice from an Alaskan native: Do NOT try to lick the glaciers.

lumina, 2008-08-29: 15:46:00
Great “sentence!” 🙂

Motherfunker: /muhth-er-fuhngk-er/ His mom was a motherfunker. Being a motherfunker is a fast, easy way to get the behaviour expected. Unfortunately, when children are brought up with a motherfunker, when they are older, they do not trust anything their mom tells them.
Etymology: MOTHERFUNKER – from MOTHER + FUNK ( to frighten; state of great fright, or terror) Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Motherfunker:

lumina, 2008-08-29: 15:27:00
And I’ll bet she was a “bad motherfunker,” “Shutcho mouth!” 🙂

Mythconduct: /-mith-kon-dukt-/ Donna stared wistfully at her friends splashing in the pool, and glanced up at the clock again — it’d been only 53 minutes since she’d eaten that banana — seven more minutes before she could go back in the pool. Her mother had warned her many times that going into the water less than an hour after eating would inevitably cause cramps, which were somehow always fatal. ‘Would she die from drowning or from the cramps themselves?’ she wondered. What if she just dangled her legs in the water? No, it was just too risky. She couldn’t overcome the mythconduct her mother had instilled into her. Six minutes and forty five seconds to go… Etymology: Myth – any invented story, idea, or concept (from Greek, mythos “speech, story”) + Conduct – personal behavior; way of acting (from Latin, conductus “to lead or bring together”) Created by: Tigger.

Comments on Mythconduct:

metrohumanx, 2008-08-29: 06:00:00
I always doubted this prohibition. I even sent it in to “Mythbusters”….to no avail.

Tigger, 2008-08-29: 10:12:00
Well, Mythbusters did prove that you shouldn’t spin around in a makeshift wirlpool too soon after eating pizza. Funny episode. But I’m convinced that the 1-hour ‘no swimming’ rule is nonsense. But I knew kids whose mothers wouldn’t even let them stand in the wading pool because of that rule.

TJayzz, 2008-08-29: 13:43:00
Good word

Nosila, 2008-08-29: 20:09:00
Welcome back, Tigger, we mythed you!

Rehlit, 2008-09-01: 00:50:00
This one is my favorite, well done!

Paranting: /pâr’ran-ting/ Due to my childhood and unique blend of “Paranting” from my mom and pops, I will be appearing on the Jerry Springer show one day soon. Etymology: Blend of “Parent” (One who begets, gives birth to) and “ranting” (to scold vehemently) Created by: hooterbug.

Comments on Paranting:

lumina, 2008-08-29: 15:28:00
I think I will be on the same show. 🙂

Nosila, 2008-08-29: 20:11:00
So many great words today!

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DEFINITION: v. tr., To secretly snap up and gobble down a small bit of food left on a dish, wrapping or pot. n., The small bits of tasty food, like melted cheese or veggies, that stick to food wrapping.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Nibblescule: /NIB-uhl-skyool/ Bob nibblesculed with a gobsessiveness. Modigobs of mushruins and upgrubs of pizzabris were just two of his favorite nibblescules. Etymology: NIBBLE:To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits & MINUSCULE: Any very small, minute thing or object.
Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Nibblescule:

metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:34:00
Awesome.

metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:43:00
Pizzabris-hahaha

lumina, 2008-08-28: 21:22:00
Ok, I’m hungry.

Yumbonus: /yum-BO-nuss/ Deierdre had it all-looks, talent, money… and she was just slopping over with class. StubblyJack was sure she was “The One”…until he saw her eat a burrito. When she finished the beantorpedo, she proceeded to scrape the foil wrapper with her teeth, YUMBONUSing the congealed cheese with gusto. StubblyJack had never seen anyone mortifeed before, but for the sake of love, he would try to get used to it. Pizza boxes, popsickle sticks, styrofoam plates and cupcake shells would not be discarded until Deirdre had eaten all the stubbornly clinging nutriscraps. She had an endearing habit of running her finger around the bottom of the pudding pot. StubblyJack tried to ingestall with her, but he just couldn’t match Deierdre’s ability to YUMBONUS all the dregs of 21st century take-out food. Etymology: Yum-interjection used to express pleasurable satisfaction especially in the taste of food…..
Bonus: something in addition to what is expected or strictly due-Latin, literally, good
Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Yumbonus:

metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:00:00
The beam has gone askew on the treadle.
http://obsoleteskills.com/Skills/Skills

Nosila, 2008-08-29: 00:33:00
76 Yumbones led the big parade…

metrohumanx, 2008-08-29: 08:05:00
Silly goose!

OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-30: 18:33:00
Very tasty

Exscrapolate: /ecks – skrap – oh – layt/ Though disgusting to those around her, one of Miranda’s favorite habits was to exscrapolate bits of food from wrappers, bowls, even other peoples plates, leaving those items clean as a whistle and crumb free. Etymology: Play on the word extrapolate, meaning to deal with food scraps of all kinds.
Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Exscrapolate:

Jabberwocky, 2008-08-28: 13:06:00
you could even stretch it to extrapoplate – nice word

Nosila, 2008-08-29: 00:34:00
Exscrambled eggs…

OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-30: 18:34:00
Very nice

Qtlicious: /cue-tee-lish-uhs
/ Jenny always volunteered to clear the dinner dishes and in the privacy of the kitchen she found everyone’s leftovers qtlicious.

Etymology: QTLICIOUS – from QT (stealthily, secretly, on the quiet) + DELICIOUS (highly pleasing to the senses, especially to taste)

Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Qtlicious:

metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:07:00
Verrrrry clever, O-bob!

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DEFINITION: v. What boyfriends and husbands do while they are waiting their girlfriends and/or wives to shop. n. A person doing such a thing.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Mallinger: /mawl-ing-gerr/ he was simply expected to mallinger while she disappeared into an endless stream of shops Etymology: mall, linger, malinger Created by: rikboyee.

Comments on Mallinger:

metrohumanx, 2008-08-27: 01:26:00
Good word.I sympathize.

TJayzz, 2008-08-27: 03:44:00
Like it

Jabberwocky, 2008-08-27: 16:08:00
very good

OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-28: 00:43:00
Nice word

Mustang, 2008-08-28: 01:54:00
Excellent!

Masterwait: /mas-ter-weyt
/ To keep her happy, he goes along shopping and masterwaits patiently for her while she tries on every pair of shoes in the store.

Etymology: MASTERWAIT – verb – from MASTER (a person who commands, or is in charge and of course SHE is) + WAIT (to be patient and remain neglected for a time) Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Masterwait:

Jabberwocky, 2008-08-27: 16:04:00
that’s why guys wear such bulky overcoats

OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-28: 00:49:00
He thinks it’s the best way to achieve “masterpeace”

Mallbearer: /pawl-BAIR-uhr/ Bob confessed to friends that he would rather go to a funeral than be a mallbearer on one of Roxie’s shopping trips. Etymology: Blend of MALL: (as in shopping mall)mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; & PALLBEARER: One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; so called
from the pall being formerly carried by them; PALL: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; grim, gloomy, foreboding. Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Mallbearer:

Jabberwocky, 2008-08-27: 16:04:00
excellent

Nosila, 2008-08-28: 01:38:00
Ah, death by debit, all sales final, slashed prices, coffin up more cash…Debt of a Salesman!

metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:35:00
Bravo! More! More!

Contemplaza: /con-tem-pla-za/ While dutifully lugging bags around the mall like a pack mule, Chris would quietly contemplaza the meaning of life. Etymology: contemplate + plaza Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Contemplaza:

OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-28: 00:55:00
Has he discovered what it is? If so, please let me know. Good word.

metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 01:29:00
Always look on the BRIGHT side of lfe.

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DEFINITION: n., A semi-conscious state experienced by early morning commuters on a subway or bus. v. intr., To mentally transport oneself in the opposite direction of which you are traveling.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Stunrun: /STUN-ruhn/ Although Bruce was fortified with a triple king-sized coffee and a fistful of No-doze, he was not looking forward to the morning STUNRUN. Reading was out of the question… the last time he tried that, he woke up at the end of the line with creases on his face. As he watched the bleak byways of industrial desolation crawl by, he remembered a STUNRUN he took a while back. Catching himself in a commuter’s REM state, he hastily got off at the wrong stop and found himself in an unfinished, uninhabited proto-terminal in the Hackensack Marshlands. He wore out his patent leather Florsheim shoes that grim day just walking back to the fringes of civilization, and he wasn’t eager to repeat that particular nighmare anytime soon. Getting home at the end of the day was bad enough, but the morning STUNRUN was just marginally more fun than a bone marrow transplant. And today was only MONDAY! Etymology: STUN+RUN=STUNRUN…..stun: to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by repeated blows-Middle English stonen, stunen, from Anglo-French estoner …..run: the distance covered in a period of continuous traveling or commuting b: a course or trip especially if traveled with regularity- Created by: metrohumanx.

Comments on Stunrun:

metrohumanx, 2008-08-26: 01:00:00
It gets worse-MUCH worse:
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/

metrohumanx, 2008-08-26: 06:52:00
This is WAY too much fun !

Nosila, 2008-08-26: 20:49:00
Good word, but thanks to you and that OzzieBob, I now have that Kingston Trio MTA Song circling the tunnels of my mind!

metrohumanx, 2008-08-27: 01:07:00
Just sing “Sloop John B.” until it goes away, N….

OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-27: 04:23:00
Fantastic

Transitdentalmeditation: /tranz-it-den-tal-med-i-tay-shun/ I find the transitdentalmeditation technique is the most effective way to remove the stress of the daily commute while bringing fulfillment and contentment to life – it is achieved by gently gritting your teeth to absorb the vibrations of the subway track – no drooling allowed! Etymology: transit + dental + transcendental meditation Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Transitdentalmeditation:

astorey, 2008-08-26: 10:57:00
very nice!

Nosila, 2008-08-26: 20:43:00
Great minds think alike…I had picked that word first but thought it too long…guess I should have followed that train of thought!

OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-27: 04:49:00
Now i know the word for the feeling I had as child whilst on the “tooth-rack” railway in Tasmanis.

Tranceportation: /transs – port – ay – shun/ While riding the metro to and from his work Melvin had developed remarkable tranceportation techniques wherein he could believe he was on vacation in Hawaii rather than on the bus in Portland. Etymology: Play on the word transportation with the inclusion of the word ‘trance’ (a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing) Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Tranceportation:

Nosila, 2008-08-26: 20:45:00
Excellent word…

metrohumanx, 2008-08-27: 01:00:00
When you awake, you will remember nothing…..

Elevitation: /EL-ev-i-tay-shun/ Passing through Chicago’s “Gold Coast” on the Brown Line trains, Cassie gazed mindlessly into the million dollar condos–bargain-priced because of their proximity to the el–and entered an advanced state of elevitation. She imagined herself sipping gourmet coffee made by a machine worth more than she gets paid in a week, reading the New York Times and sharing interesting tidbits with her fabulously wealthy (and good looking) husband. Cassie’s elevitation was so powerful that she suddenly discovered she had ridden the train all the way around the downtown Loop and was passing those same condos again, on the other side of the train. Etymology: El as in elevated train, as it is especially known in Chicago, combined with levitation–To lift or raise a physical object in apparent defiance of gravity. Created by: astorey.

Comments on Elevitation:

Jabberwocky, 2008-08-26: 12:53:00
great paragraph

metrohumanx, 2008-08-27: 01:10:00
WOW! That’s what I love to read. This challenge was one of the BEST! Good work, Astorey.

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