Tag: word play

DEFINITION: v. To be frustrated by a driver who is blocking the road by strictly observing the “suggested” speed limits. n. A driver who ignores the rules of the road by driving very slowly (i.e. at the legal limit) in the fast lane.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Slowtorist: /slo-tur-ist/ I was late for work again due to a slowtorist driving the speed limit in the passing “lame”. Etymology: slow, motorist Created by: purpleartichokes.

Comments on Slowtorist:

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-07: 12:53:00
funny word

Jamagra, 2008-04-07: 13:56:00
oooo.. I hate getting stuck behind people in the passing lame. Great word.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-07: 20:37:00
Good word- I considered: “Sloffeur” and “Snaileur”

Carstipate: /kahr-stuh-PEYT/ Whilst driving Bob slow, dribble-to -rule approach left a long line of carstipated drivers behind him. Etymology: Blend of CAR & CONSTIPATE: prevent passage through; impede; crowd together Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Carstipate:

Jamagra, 2008-04-07: 14:05:00
I can just hear a traffic reporter saying “The highway is carstipated” instead of “congested”. Love it!

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-07: 16:46:00
hate those traffic fumes

purpleartichokes, 2008-04-07: 18:10:00
Love it! Yep, a great word to describe a traffic jam.

arrrteest, 2008-04-07: 20:58:00
It’s a natural!

Nosila, 2008-04-08: 01:49:00
Bob, it makes me think you fuel up with prune juice! Great word…very binding!

Softbagel14, 2008-04-08: 23:38:00
love it!

Meanderthal: /me-an’-der-thol

/ “Hey, meanderthal!!! You’re doing 55 miles per hour on the freaking freeway! Find the long pedal on the right and USE IT,” Sam shouted at the elderly man in the Dodge Dart. “Meanderthalled again,” grumbled Sam. Etymology: meanderthal – meander (to wander aimlessly) + Neanderthal Created by: Jamagra.

Comments on Meanderthal:

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-07: 12:52:00
great word

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-07: 20:33:00
Excellent

Accelerangst: /ax-sell-er-angst/ Philip was in a hurry, which seemed like what 99% of the suburbanites were most of the time. He just moved farther outside his comfort zone of freeways and fast moving cars to the fringes where the slow rural life abuts the encroaching planned neighborhoods. He thought having a bigger house and a lawn to mow would be a step up for him. Little did he know he would now be butting heads, or bumpers, with wandering livestock or an occassional combine. However now he seemed to find himself accelerangst up behind slow moving pickups, shaking his fist and downing a few swigs of Mylanta in one hand while honking his horn with the other. Etymology: accelerate + angst Created by: arrrteest.

Comments on Accelerangst:

purpleartichokes, 2008-04-07: 18:08:00
Good word! The sentence reminds me of what I’ve soon got to deal with – the inevitable chicken(s) crossing the road and the farmer on the tractor who is oblivious to any cars behind him.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-07: 20:39:00
Good Blend

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:

https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=tail

Be Creative,

James

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

Definition Comments:

Verbotomy – 2008-04-07: 00:01:00

Today’s definition was suggested by stache and Biscotti. Thank you stache and Biscotti. ~ James

arrrteest – 2008-04-07: 17:40:00
A friend of mine always said, “Beware of old men in hats driving Buicks.”

I remember driving up the NJ Turnpike at 75MPH and pushing 80 in the right lane and being flashed by motorists thinking I was going too slow!

purpleartichokes – 2008-04-07: 18:03:00

My dad always said “Beware of men smoking cigars and driving station wagons.” Wouldn’t ya know, my first close call was with one of them?

DEFINITION: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Cellulardysfunction: /sel-U-lar-dis-func-tion/ Jill’s bars suddenly dropped to zero as they approached the tunnel. Jill started to shake and sweat. She suffers from cellulardysfunction and the thought of “no phone service” makes her blood pressure soar. Etymology: cellular/dysfunction Created by: toadstool57.

Roamophobe: /Rohm-ah-fobe/ Bruce, with his pink Razr phone and its several Hello Kitty charms attached, would openly weep in roamophobic terror when the bus would enter the Lincoln Tunnel. How was he supposed to watch reruns of Project Runway with no bars? Etymology: roam – use of a cell phone outside of one’s calling area, phobe – person who has a particular phobia Created by: Banky.

Comments on Roamophobe:

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-03: 10:58:00
very funny sentence

Discellusionment: /dis-sell-oo-shun-ment/ Cathy froze in a state of complete discellusionment when her cellphone disconnected. The experience was so shocking that she remained cellibate forever after. Etymology: disillusionment + cell + lose Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Discellusionment:

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-04: 04:54:00
Great word.

Nophonobia: /no-fn-obia
the accent is on OBIA. fn is barely pronounced/ Despite Lana’s nophonobia, ironically, she’s always one to lose her phone or accidentally destroy it in odd ways like when she dropped it in her water at Pei Wei as she passed it to Zack. Etymology: no + phone + phobia (an intense, abnormal, or illogical fear of a specified thing) Created by: diyan627.

Comments on Nophonobia:

Mustang, 2008-04-03: 18:59:00
Great word!

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:

https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=angst

Be Creative,

James

www.verbotomy.com

the create-a-word game

Definition Comments:

stache – 2008-04-03: 01:35:00
?

stache – 2008-04-03: 01:37:00
to whom is credit for the definition owed, james?

Verbotomy – 2008-04-03: 07:55:00
Ah… Actually I made it up! Cheers ~ James

stache – 2008-04-03: 18:47:00
way to go.

DEFINITION: v. To join a discussion group or social network and immediately become identified as a villain by picking on the friendliest person in the community. n. A person who steps on other people’s toes and kicks bunnies.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Matriarchenemy: /mey-tree-arch-en-uh-mee/ Janice became the matriarchenemy of the book club regulars by verbally attacking the opinions of Dody, the friendliest and most popular member at the neighbourhood library Book of the Month discussion. Etymology: matriarch + archenemy (antagonist, adversary, attacher) Created by: Stevenson0.

Hostylist: /hoss sty list/ Joy was the nicest hairstylist in town. Her clients loved her manely because she did the best coifs for miles around. Her sweet nature was an extension of the fact she loved her work. She worked with Bobbi Pin, Al Lopecia, Hairy Mullet and Dan Druff, who all loved her too. One day a new stylist joined their team. Her name was Delilah and after a short time, it became evident that she was jealous of Joy and made it her mission to be mean to her, lock, stock and barrel. The highlights of any given day were to shampoo-poo her work, upbraid her in front of clients, tease her mercilessly and cut her no slack. She combed Joy’s work for flaws and ratted her out whenever she could. Poor Joy was getting s-tressed from all these brushes with Delilah. She had to find a permanent solution to her dilemma. Nothing she said or did could straighten Delilah out. On a tip from a client, Joy went to the bank and borrowed enough money to buy the salon. She renamed it The Joy of Hair. Delilah’s face was colored red (actually auburn, with vermilion tints) when she found out that Joy would be her new head boss. As she streaked out of the salon to flyaway, she cursed Joy and the others(who gave her a finger wave)with that age-old hostylist’s curse: “Curl up and dye!”
Unfortunately for Delilah, outside, in her haste, she banged into a large mousse. The coroner later ruled her death a barbericide. The moral of this hair-raising story is that evil is at the root of all evil. Etymology: hostile (characterized by enmity or ill will or impossible to bring into friendly accord) & sty (a place where pigs abound)& stylist (an artist who is a master of a particular style
or someone who cuts or beautifies hair)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Hostylist:

arrrteest, 2008-04-02: 16:28:00
Great fable!I gues Delilah had hell toupe!

purpleartichokes, 2008-04-02: 19:09:00
Great sentence Jammy!

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-02: 20:32:00
Sentensational!

Camaraderaptor: /kä’mÉ™-rä’dÉ™-rāp’tÉ™r/ After Georgette appended gushingly complimentary comments to every one of the submissions on the poetry blog, Flo just couldn’t help herself. She was, by her very nature, a camaraderaptor. She posted a stinging limerick, the first line of which was, “A bunny rabbit named Georgette… .” Etymology: ‘camara,’ var. of ‘kamara,’ soviet-era spy technology popular with kgb notable Boris Badinov; ‘der,’ German article; ‘apt,’ particularly appropriate, as this definition vis. doseydotes; ‘or,’ denoting approximately equally-weighted alternatives, as in ‘defecate or vacate the porcelain receptacle.’ Created by: stache.

Comments on Camaraderaptor:

Jamagra, 2008-04-02: 08:41:00
Still laughing over the last line. Great!

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-02: 12:55:00
great word

Mustang, 2008-04-02: 18:06:00
Excellent!

purpleartichokes, 2008-04-02: 19:03:00
Nice!

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-02: 20:30:00
Stache, you are an etymologizing animal! Very funny; good word.

stache, 2008-04-02: 23:21:00
thanks, y’all. from giants among verbotomists such as yourselves these kind words mean much.

Scapegoatherd: /scape-goat-herd/ Jim established himself as the official scapegoatherd in the office. He carefully rounded up his victims from the weakest links he could find and took great pleasure in tormenting them. Etymology: scape goat + goatherd Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Scapegoatherd:

purpleartichokes, 2008-04-02: 09:56:00
Song of the day – that goatherd song from Sound of Music. YODELAAAHEEEE! Good word Jabber.

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-02: 11:45:00
Loud was the voice of the lonely scapegoatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-02: 20:40:00
That’s “goating” to extremes. Maybe he was the Goatfather!

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:

https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=bunny

Be Creative,

James

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

Definition Comments:

Verbotomy – 2008-04-02: 00:01:00
Today’s definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James

Jamagra – 2008-04-02: 00:18:00
Dang! Where can I get those shoes?!
Love them! …and another fabulous cartoon to add to an abunnydant collection.

purpleartichokes – 2008-04-02: 07:09:00

I want the bunny!

Verbotomy – 2008-04-02: 07:32:00
The shoes and bunny are available in my imagination… And now, I guess they are part of yours too! You can wear them while you’re playing Verbotomy. ~ James

purpleartichokes – 2008-04-02: 09:50:00
Ouch! The varmint bit me! Bad Bunny! Now he’s pooping all over the keyboarddddd. Oops, the “dddd” key is stuck.

arrrteest – 2008-04-02: 23:27:00

Killer Rabbit! Retreat!