Tag: word play

Witticissistic

DEFINITION: v. To enthusiastically tell and share a lame joke with an unwilling audience. n. A person who does not realize that their sense of humor is not appreciated and laughs loudly at their own jokes.

I'll make everyone erase their hard drives!

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Witticissistic: /wit-ti-sis-sis-tic/ John was a witticissistic who loved his own sense of humour and the jokes that he wrote and was constantly pushing them on his unlaughing friends. Etymology: witticism + narcissistic Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Witticissistic:

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-01: 11:06:00
excellent

stache, 2008-04-01: 18:41:00
you da man.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 22:16:00
Outstanding.

Comediot: /com-E-dE-ot/ Jill thinks she is the life of the party, telling her stupid jokes that have no punch line, and go on and on with no end in sight. Being the only one laughing you’d think she has to realize she is a complete comediot and not a canidate for comic relief. Etymology: comedian/idiot Created by: toadstool57.

Comments on Comediot:

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-01: 14:37:00
funny

stache, 2008-04-01: 20:55:00
I like this one. compact and to the point, plus it fits the def.

Mustang, 2008-04-01: 22:22:00
Great word. Very descriptive and blunt. Wish I’d thought of it.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 22:24:00
Spot on.

Mirthworm: /murth werm/ Darryl was a mirthworm. He was the office geek, allegedly hired to fix all the computer & communications equipment problems. This meant he had a lot of time on his hands. And everyone knows that idol hands are the Devil’s workshop. He wasted his days bothering people by sending them or telling them jokes that only he found funny. Every April Fool’s Day, he could be counted on to author tasteless jokes and tricks at the expense of his fellow workers. Like when he had everyone tie plastic baggies around their telephones, because the phone company would be blowing air through the waves to clean out dust and the baggies prevented the dust from getting all over one’s desk. Or like the times he had left phone messages for people to call back a Mr. Don Keyes or Mr. G. Raff and the telephone number was that of the local zoo. Or when he left messages to call Germaine Shepherd or Greta Dane, at the local dog pound. Oh yeah, Darryl was a funster alright.
But his co-workers grew tired of his pranks and the stupid jokes he regaled them with daily. Jokes that were either of a racist, sexist or just plain unfunny nature. Jokes that interrupted the hard work they tried to get on with every day. This year would be different, for sure. Through clever negotiations with their long-suffering boss…a man who was fed up with Darryl’s tomfoolery and his lack of actual accomplishment in his job, Darryl’s days of clowning were over.
Yes, they could not wait for him to get the notice this morning on his computer from the boss about his upcoming transfer. Yes, Darryl would be leaving one way or another. He could have his choice of transfer destinations where his company had branch offices: Nimrod, Minnesota; Monkey Run,Arkansas; Ding Dong,Texas;Boring,Oregon;or the new Canadian branch in Boobey Brook, NB. And as a joke to this serious memo, he was being advised that the company was putting him on the Wittiness Relocation Program. Who’s laughing now, Darryl??? Etymology: mirth (laughter, merriment) & worm (a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect or a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network)
Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Mirthworm:

Jabberwocky, 2008-04-01: 14:42:00
great story for April Fool’s Day

arrrteest, 2008-04-01: 17:10:00
A regular Darryl of Laughs! Loved the story.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 20:39:00
Great sentence with outstanding blend of two words from the heart and soul of English.

Nosila, 2008-04-01: 22:24:00
Cheers, mates…as usual most of my stories are based on real life…haven’t we all known a Darryl or two in our time???

Mustang, 2008-04-01: 22:26:00
Very good! Darryl is no doubt a Don Key-ote when it comes to pursuing his kind of humor…..very earthy wormy.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 22:40:00
Things are getting a bit fishy. Might need to call in Barry Cooter of, maybe, Mirthbusters!

Loonytech: /loon-ee-tek/ For fun, Jason would hack into other people’s hard drives, infect their PCs with trojans and spam their e-mail boxes. No doubt he was good with computers but at the same time a loonytech. Etymology: Loony (a foolish or crazy person) + tech Created by: kashman.

Comments on Loonytech:

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 22:18:00
Good word.

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Be Creative,

James

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Definition Comments:

Verbotomy – 2008-04-01: 00:01:00

Today’s definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James

stache – 2008-04-01: 08:58:00
Nice seasonal selection; I have to admit you had me for a minute.

Verbotomy – 2008-04-01: 12:36:00
Thanks stache. I was wondering if anyone would get my joke… I was starting to think that I’m just a nilarious jestersmuck, or maybe a farcefeeding obliviass. ~ James

purpleartichokes – 2008-04-01: 13:27:00

Got me as well, ya toonatic!

Blissipate

DEFINITION: v. To see joy and beauty where others only see complications, trouble and weeds. n. A moment of delight which dissipates as soon as it is shared.

Look I found a pretty flower.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Blissipate: /BLIS-uh-peyt/ As rainclouds fade away to distant horizons, only the waterless desert blissipates at its sandy dunes. Etymology: BLISS :Middle English blisse, from Old English bliss, from blÄ«ths, from blÄ«the, joyful; -_SIPATE:from L. sipatus, pp. of (dis)sipare “disperse, squander, disintegrate, cause to vanish” + supare “to throw, scatter about.”

Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Blissipate:

Jabberwocky, 2008-03-31: 12:53:00
very poetic

purpleartichokes, 2008-03-31: 14:05:00
Great word Oz!

Robtomist: /rob tom ist/ Rosemary had started out optimistic, but marriage to Rob had taken its’ toll on her good nature and she felt like she had married a robtomist. She decided to create a lovely garden after mulch thought. Her garden was her therapy, because he was a creeper who had tended to lilac a sidewalk and perennially wore his bachelor buttons while out with some hoe. Sod him, the rake…he thought he was so poplar! She turfed aside her negative feelings when out in her garden and with thyme, grew more sage. Her efforts in the garden helped rid her Hostality and control her impatiens. Her favourite fantasy while working the earth was to plan ways she could root out her rotten husband, the son of a birch: hit him in the gourd; beet him; artichoke him and let the life leek from him. But instead of pining fir him, she decided that sooner or later he’d begonia and she could prune him out of her life forever. Dill death do us part, indeed! She rose from her planting as all was well with the Cosmos, spruced herself up and went into the house to catch another episode of her favourite show, Lawn Order.

Etymology: rob (to steal) & optimist (someone who finds the good in everything and everyone) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Robtomist:

eap6217, 2008-03-31: 13:53:00
Well thought out.

purpleartichokes, 2008-03-31: 18:20:00
HA! Love the sentence (and the word)! Lawn Order, son-of-a-birch, artichoke him… too funny!

OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-31: 23:55:00
Great word;love the story!

Pollyanntidote: /-pol-ee-ANN-ti-doht-/ Although little Valerie exhibited a constant love of life, and an exuberance for discovering beauty in even the most mundane things which was almost infectious, her older sister, Sharon, was immune to such charming behavior, and she would almost always attempt to deter Valerie’s optimism with her version of a Pollyanntidote. So when Valerie tried to show Sharon how the broken bottle she’d found made the prettiest little rainbows on the sidewalk, Sharon said, “Does it still do that when it’s all covered with blood?” Valerie put the bottle down but, undeterred, she looked around, spotted a butterfly, and promptly went running off after it. Sharon thought she spotted a patch of poison ivy in the direction that Valerie was heading, and she idly wondered if a big, itchy rash might curb some of her sister’s enthusiasm. Etymology: Pollyanna – an excessively or blindly optimistic person (in allusion to the influential novel “Pollyanna” about an inspiringly cheerful little girl) + Antidote – a remedy or counteragent (from Greek, antidoton “given as a remedy”) Created by: Tigger.

Comments on Pollyanntidote:

Jabberwocky, 2008-03-31: 12:50:00
great word tigger

Mustang, 2008-03-31: 23:12:00
Excellent verboticism. Very descriptive and fun to say.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 00:15:00
Great bit of thinking.

Serendumpity: /Ser – un – DUMP – it -ee/ Thinking she was spreading great joy only to receive criticism for her choices, little Helga experienced a sudden sadness and severe pangs of serendumpity. Etymology: Blend of serendipity and ‘dumps’ or state of sadness. Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Serendumpity:

Jabberwocky, 2008-03-31: 12:53:00
great blend

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 00:14:00
Excellent.

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Be Creative,

James

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Definition Comments:

Verbotomy – 2008-03-30: 00:01:00

Today’s definition was suggested by an anonymous donor. Thank you! ~ James

Chicgrin

DEFINITION: n. A fashion accessory or style of dress which purports to improve one’s appearance and attitude, but actually does the opposite. v. To follow a fashion dictum in an effort to improve your social standing even when it causes physical discomfort.

I can't breathe with this tie on!

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Chicgrin: /sheek-grin/ It was with mixed emotions and an attitude of chicgrin that she wore the latest all wool full body designer suit to the red carpet movie premiere. Etymology: chic (fashionable) + grin and bear it + chagrin (annoyance, discomfiture) Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Chicgrin:

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-08: 21:39:00
Good word.

Fashionotsee: /Fah – shun – NOT – see/ Evan fancied himself a dashing figure in his retro attire but he was a fashionotsee who didnt realize that his peers were actually sneering and not smiling at his appearance. Etymology: Blend of fashion and not see (or Nazi..lol) Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Fashionotsee:

Nosila, 2008-04-08: 20:32:00
I always thought the word fashion came from fascism! Good one, Mustang!

Embhellishment: /emb-hell-ish-ment/ Six inch stylettos are an embhellishment that hurts the spine and causes muscle cramps in the legs but come in very handy as a weapon. Etymology: embellishment + hellish Created by: Jabberwocky.

Comments on Embhellishment:

purpleartichokes, 2008-04-08: 09:27:00
Ha! So do steel-toes.

OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-09: 20:56:00
Bela, Bela!

Hautecoutorture: /-oht-koo-tor-cher-/ Irene had spent half of her last paycheck on a pair of Manolo slingbacks, and she took satisfaction in knowing that she was wearing the most fashionable shoes of anyone at the party. Unfortunately, the new, stiff leather had raised and torn open blisters on her ankles and squished her toes, so that now she was barely able to walk. This miserable hautecoutorture she was experiencing must just be part of the price of high-fashion. On top of that, her dress pinched under her arms and dug painfully into her bladder whenever she sat down. Her dress was a Versouchie. Etymology: Haute-couture – high fashion (French, haute “high” & couture “sewing”) Torture – to afflict with severe pain (from Latin, torquere “to twist, turn, or wring”) Created by: Tigger.

Comments on Hautecoutorture:

purpleartichokes, 2008-04-08: 09:25:00
Love it!

Mustang, 2008-04-08: 16:57:00
Great word.

Nosila, 2008-04-08: 20:35:00
She probably also wear Prodda and Calvin DeKlein! Good word, Tigger!

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James

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Definition Comments:

Verbotomy – 2008-04-08: 00:01:00

Today’s definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James

stache – 2008-04-08: 18:32:00
clam hammock. heh, heh.

purpleartichokes – 2008-04-08: 19:07:00
Ha!

Contrapture

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.

What are you doing to the lawnmower?

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Contrapture: /kun-trap-chur/ I’d called him twice to dinner. There was a steaming plate of his favorite dish sitting before his empty seat at the table. Outside, the icy rain started coming down harder, yet Mark still hadn’t come in. I looked out the window to find him tenderly tugging on the ropes attached to the tarp covering his old rust-bucket tractor, Bessie… and wiping off her wet spots. The evidence was clearly mounting that Mark had fallen victim to contrapture. Etymology: contraption, rapture Created by: purpleartichokes.

Comments on Contrapture:

doseydotes, 2008-03-27: 09:09:00
Great word. Even greater sentence – “wiping off her wet spots.” You’re a poet, Purple A.

Jabberwocky, 2008-03-27: 11:27:00
excellent purple

purpleartichokes, 2008-03-27: 12:11:00
Thanks Jabber and dosey. I always struggle with sentences. This one came easy, as it actually happened.

spotthecat1, 2008-03-27: 13:40:00
wonderful word…easy to pronounce and remember!

OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 17:30:00
Excellent.

Motoroticism: /mō’tÉ™r-rŏt’Ä­-sÄ­z’É™m/ He was attracted, and she knew it. He telegraphed his arousal with every breath. But she played it cool; he might as well not have existed, as far as she was concerned. Of course, that made her all the more desirable. She stood there, in all her gleaming glory, and idled, her vortec V-6 rumbling, her flanks gleaming, her two-speed transfer case and four-wheel-drive tranny lying idle.
“A hundred thirty k’s quite a few miles,” he muttered, trying to disguise the motoroticism reeking from his pores, then offered twelve hundred fifty for the ’92 S10 Blazer. Etymology: moto, middle Norse, “diminuative snapshot structure;” rot, bef. 900; (v.) ME rot(t)en, OE rotian, c. Fris rotsje, D rotten; (n.) ME, perh. < ON rot (perh. partly deriv. of the v.), “aroma of that which eminates from Denmark;” I, the nominative singular pronoun; cism, derivative of ‘sizzle,’ from early N. V. Peale, that which is sold in lieu of, and is percieved as preferrable to, the steak. Created by: stache.

Comments on Motoroticism:

doseydotes, 2008-03-27: 09:07:00
I knew there was something going on with that freakin’ truck. Don’t forget . . . it’s gonna be MINE.

Jabberwocky, 2008-03-27: 11:52:00
great word

purpleartichokes, 2008-03-27: 15:11:00
I like it too!

Mustang, 2008-03-27: 18:46:00
Excellent!!

OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 17:30:00
Excellent.

Esteemachine: /ESS-tim-ay-shun/ Tim’s inamorotor was a revolving door. He was filled with adooration for it and romeotored it by daily servicing its moving parts. It had grown in his esteemachine and now outranked his combine heartvester in his affections. Etymology: esteem + machine Created by: petaj.

Comments on Esteemachine:

diyan627, 2008-03-27: 11:41:00
Funny! Great word and sentence! I know a few’ who have an esteemachine collection!

Mechanimism: /-muh-KAN-uh-miz-um-/ ‘Janice seems to really love her new food processor,’ mused Charles as he left her apartment. She’d invited him over for dinner, but then she’d spent most of the evening in the kitchen with it. He was sure he’d heard Janice humming and cooing to it everytime she switched it on, and she would meticulously clean it between and after each use, admiring the sharp, shiny, new blades. As he got into his car, Charles told himself that he wasn’t jealous, but this was surely a case of mechanimism, and he began to wonder about Janice’s sanity. “Oh well,” he thought, patting the dashboard of his Porche, “that just means more quality time for us, right Katrina?” (the car was named for her stormy personality). Etymology: Mechanical – having to do with machinery (from Greek, mekhanikos “an engineer”) + Animism – the belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects (from Latin, anima “life, breath, soul”) Created by: Tigger.

Comments on Mechanimism:

Tigger, 2008-03-27: 07:29:00
I was going to use ‘Mechanthropomorphism’ but that seemed a bit too long…

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James

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Definition Comments:

Verbotomy – 2008-03-27: 00:01:00

Today’s definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James

stache – 2008-03-27: 01:25:00

Have these always been called “verboticisms?”

Verbotomy – 2008-03-28: 06:00:00

Yes that’s the word we use to describe our invented words. Of course you can also use “neologism”. And I think we should create a subcategory for invented words with sexual undertones like your winning word today. It would be “verberoticisms”. ~ James

Linguweenie

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.

Man, you loving bestest ever!

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Linguweenie: /lin-guwee-nie/ Rocco was definitely a gifted person, but he was so annoying because he always corrected everybody’s language. He was definitely a linguweenie. Etymology: linguist + weenie Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Linguweenie:

stache, 2008-03-26: 10:40:00
Hilarious. For some reason, though, it makes me hungry for Italian food.

Jabberwocky, 2008-03-26: 11:04:00
he was probably adamant about the pasta tense

arrrteest, 2008-03-26: 11:58:00
Love it! I can not wait until I can use the sentence, “Don’t be such a linguweenie!”

OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-26: 17:05:00
Bravo!

Nosila, 2008-03-26: 22:43:00
Bellissimo (or is it We’ll eat some more)

Tigger, 2008-03-26: 22:47:00
No wonder they say that Rocco is such a wet noodle. Funny word.

Syntaxassessor: /sin taks ass sess or/ Sidney Nym had grown to hate his wife, Anne T. Nym. Almost since the day they were wed, she had made him tense in his past, present and future due to her incessant correction of his grammar. Their initial conjunction had been predicated on their indicative physical attraction to each other and they had conjugated their relationship regularly then. But she took her role as syntaxassessor very seriously and over the years, she had become the active voice and he the passive one. She was the definite article, he was the indefinite one. He would love to subject her to a taste of her own medicine, but unfortunately, his weak linguistic grasp of the vernacular just gave him a pain in his colon instead. He wished he had interjected a clause in their pre-nup to preclude her from modifying his income should the object of his affection preposition another man and leave. He had pondered many a time abbreviating her time on Earth, but he also had to consider the children: Acro Nym and Homo Nym (yeah, like he didn’t get teased in school). He had also considered running off and becoming a transitive, but he was a pronoun and had an ellipsis….he decided to stay and work on his marriage. Besides, compounding his decision was the fact that every article he read said that the sentence for a case like his could be Capital punishment! Etymology: syntax (studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences; the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences;a systematic orderly arrangement) & tax (make a charge against or accuse) & assessor (an official who evaluates things or judges their merits) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Syntaxassessor:

stache, 2008-03-26: 09:10:00
Man, your sentence leaves me speechless. I have nothing-you used ’em all! expertly done.

purpleartichokes, 2008-03-26: 14:11:00
Astounding sentence! Love the word too!

bookowl, 2008-03-26: 15:14:00
well thought out

OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-26: 17:19:00
Absolutely great sentence. Syntax – . // The money collected at the church from sinners. (Aiken Drum, POTD, 31 May 1999)

Tigger, 2008-03-26: 22:25:00
I’ll never look at ellipses the same way again. Simply punderful!

Nosila, 2008-03-26: 22:45:00
Cheers, all…as you may have guessed my nickname is Nosila, Queen of the Pundra! This is a great place to practice my craft…few on the outside understand “us”!

Wordprefect: /wurd-PREE-fekt/ “But this is madness. I am trying to stop this company from becoming a grammatical graveyard! Don’t you realize it concerns every person in this country – and, moreover, in the greater part of the world to speak English perfectly” Behind his back, in a low voice, someone murmured, ” Oh no, has someone split an infinitive again.” Things were becoming tense as Bob, flushing crimson, started to leave the room. After few moments, someone said, “Hope that’s the last of “Verndracula” for a while. “Verndracula”, “Dipthong”, “Cretaphor” and, quasi-officially, “The Wordprefect” were but a few pejoratives for Bob, whose habitual correcting of even the slightest grammatical error was driving his colleagues to demential declensia. However, they agreed, that it was a “critical period” in the company’s history, and that it would be a “double negative” if they sat there tangentiality, and did nothing to put a “glottal stop” to his psycholinguistic punishment. Firstly they started to mutilate plurals, one boomerang became two “beemearang”; one cuckoo was two “cuckee”. And, in an attempt, to render this onomatopedant almost apoplexic: ‘Boo-hoo’ became “bee-hee” and “boom” became “beem” Reaching for the mountain top of malapropisms, they uttered howlers such as a “let’s not talk about tattoo subjects”. Gradually, Bob began to realize that he had lost all “soap in his hole” when he began to slip, more and more, involuntary, into spoonerisms – of course, that should be speenerism. Etymology: Blend of WORD & PREFECT: School boy,especially in English Grammar schools, with responsibility for th discipline and “proper” behavior of other students. Created by: OZZIEBOB.

Comments on Wordprefect:

arrrteest, 2008-03-26: 12:04:00
There’s nothing like clouding up the waters with a good mixed metaphor, ya know!

Jabberwocky, 2008-03-26: 14:00:00
excellent sentence

Tigger, 2008-03-26: 22:29:00
So many hysterical stories today! Very amusing.

Nosila, 2008-03-26: 22:40:00
Loved it…it left me almost comma-tose. Period. Doesn’t a dipthong sound like the kind of low-cut bathing suit that Borat wore? Isn’t a beemerang a carphone call for a yuppie? Cheers!(Is the singular form of that a cher?)

Pricktionary: /prik-shun-air-ee/ as soon as i sent the email ‘i’ll see you their at 8pm’, i knew that pricktionary would be on my case Etymology: prick, dictionary Created by: rikboyee.

Comments on Pricktionary:

OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-26: 17:41:00
Just something about this word that I like.

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James

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Definition Comments:

Verbotomy – 2008-03-26: 00:01:00
Today’s definition was suggested by stache. Thank you stache. ~ James

stache – 2008-03-26: 09:16:00
You’re welcome, JG. Very worthy submissions today

doseydotes – 2008-03-26: 09:22:00
I’m afraid stache’s definition is in reference to yours truly. I looked at the suggested words and I’m floored. I might as well give up right now. Great job, everybody.

doseydotes – 2008-03-26: 10:53:00
And I gotta add, “Man, you loving bestest ever!” to my repertoire.

stache – 2008-03-26: 11:47:00
That’d be hoovy of you, ‘dotes.

Verbotomy – 2008-03-26: 22:49:00
Yes, there are lots of gramudgeons and linguweenies here. Apparently, they’re the bestest! ~ James