Verbotoweek: Jabberwocky Wins!

Congratulations Jabberwocky:

This week’s easy overall winner was Jabberwocky with five strong words: dresspionage, inadequacedey, peddlerpushers, stunveilment and reflexcellegy.
Most verbotomists find it hard to come up with one, or two good words a week, but five definitely deserves the week’s honours. Congratulations!

And dear Jabberwocky, please answer this question: Which defintion and word are you going to choose for your Cup of Verbotomy?

You can see the final results here:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verbotomists.php?week=2007-05-14

To The Definitions:
This week’s task was again to take five social situations and capsulize them into one word, instead of fifteen, or twenty. Not an easy assignment, but our creative and dynamic Verbotomists met the challenges in interesting, humourous and demiurgic ways. Bravo to all.
We saw a cash challenged shopper shropp, stashandcarry, consumouflage, delayaway and commit dresspionage while the floorstalkers, shopcreepers, clurks, peddlerpushers and salesassassins lurked in the background trying to make a sale and a quick buck.
The impenetrable packaging on our goods created bloody fingernails, as well as cellopain, attackaging, shrinkorrhage, incaplasticate, autodiscomutilate and peelandheal.
The last two situations focused on our human need to answer that damn phone no matter what, causing automatonate, callflex, comproinstinctivringobsession, oughtoreply, phonepulsion and technobliged and the nightmarish image of having to start a project all over again from point zero causing a plightbulbmoment, an eslipphany, an apocalapse, an oemeffgy, or an ohnoment.
For all five definitions and situations our Verbotomists created amazing and brilliant Verboticisms! THANK YOU ALL!!

Top Ten Verboticisms of the Week:
1. Ringstinct Created by: toadstool57
2. Dresspionage Created by: Jabberwocky
3. Incapackitate Created by: Clayton
4. Commissionary Created by: toadstool57
5. Stunveilment Created by: Jabberwocky
6. Attackaging Created by: iwasatripwire
7. Cellopain Created by: ErWenn
8. Reflexcellegy Created by: Jabberwocky
9. Peddlerpushers Created by: Jabberwocky
10. Clurk Created by: Osomatic

Five Under Valued Words

Here are five of our under-voted favorites

* Shushguise Created by: mana1066
* Peelandheal Created by: surfstang
* Shocktasm Created by: surfstang
* Oemeffgy Created by: ohwtepph
* Comproinstinctivringobsession Created by: grasshopper

Your dumbling observer,

Weeklink

It’s for you. Tell them you’re busy.

DEFINITION: To instinctively answer your cell phone ring, even when caught in a somewhat compromising position.

It's for you. Tell them you're busy.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Ringstinct: /ring-stinct/ Jill interrupted a passionate kiss as her ringstinct kicked in, fumbling for the phone, she tells her man to hold the thought and they can resume the kiss as soon as she gets off the phone. Etymology: ring/instinct Created by: toadstool57.

Reflexcellegy: /ree-flex-sell-e-gee/ Her reflexcellegy was so finely tuned that she would respond to ringtones under any circumstances, even when scuba diving Etymology: reflex + cell + reflexology (practice of stimulating nerves on the feet, hands and ears) Created by: Jabberwocky.

Ringdrone: /ring-drohn/ “Yes Master” the ringdrone responded to his cell phone Etymology: ring tone + drone Created by: Stevenson0.

Technobliged: /tÄ•k’nÉ™-blÄ«-jd’/ despite my incapacitated state, the presence of my fully charged cell phone made me technobliged to answer. What if someone needed help…? I was technobligated, at the very least, to provide some minimal assistance… given my access to communication. Etymology: technology + obligate (To bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie. etc. etc.) Created by: zrotv.

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=call

Be Creative,

James

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

What do you mean, you’re not coming?

DEFINITION: The moment of awareness when you realize that have you made a huge mistake on a big project, and will have to start all over again, from the very beginning.

What do you mean, you're not coming?

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Stunveilment: /stun-vale-ment/ She was in a complete state of shock when she realized the most important element of her dream wedding was missing – her shoes! Etymology: unveilment (revelation) + stun (shock) Created by: Jabberwocky.

Apocalapse: /apok-a-laps/ He was running his best 10k ever when he suddenly realized he wasn’t really ahead of the pack but in the wrong race Etymology: apocalypse + lapse Created by: Stevenson0.

Inshite: /inch eyet/ her sudden burst of inshite was extremely painful to her, as was her mother’s dose of itoldusoitis which came at almost exactly the same time. Etymology: insight, in shite! Created by: galwaywegian.

Eslipphany: /ee-slip-fanny/ It was a major eslipphany when the fax machine ate the document that he was supposed to be scanning Etymology: epiphany + slip Created by: porsche.

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=restart

Be Creative,

James

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

Are you just browsing?

DEFINITION: An overbearing or pushy salesperson who makes you want to leave a store rather than look around and buy something.

Are you just browsing?

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Commissionary: /com-mission-ary/ David is a blood thirsty commissionary, attacking any unsuspecting customer that might stroll into his section at the electonics store. His tactics are ruthless, just to make the “sale” and get the commission. Etymology: commission/missionary, as in propagator of religion or a relentless soldier Created by: toadstool57.

Peddlerpushers: /ped-lur-push-urs/ Our local video store is full of peddlerpushers who sneak up behind you when you’re deep in thought and then shadow you relentlessly as you peruse the movie selection Etymology: peddler + pusher + pedal pushers Created by: Jabberwocky.

Floorstalker: /floor-stalk-er/ Commissioned salespeople are licensed floorstalkers who creep me out of the store. Etymology: floorwalker + stalker Created by: Stevenson0.

Shopcreeper: /Shawp-kreep-err/ That shopcreeper was pushing me way too much. I grabbed that stupid block of cheese he was trying to sell me and shoved it right in his mouth. He now sells basketballs because he knows no one can stuff those in his mouth… I proved him wrong. Etymology: Shopkeeper (owner of a shop that sells goods) + creep (an annoying and detestable person) Created by: ziggy41.

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=clerk

Be Creative,

James

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

Is this shrink wrapping a new security feature?

DEFINITION: To injure oneself physically, or to be reduced to a state of mental incapacity, when attempting to open shrink-wrapped CDs, DVDs or software.

Is this shrink wrapping a new security feature?

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Attackaging: /uh-tack-uh-jing/ “The damn attackaging cut me!” Etymology: attack + packaging Created by: iwasatripwire.

Incapackitate: /in-kuh-PAK-i-teyt/ After trying to break the seal on his new pen drive for almost an hour, John was utterly incapackitated; almost to the point of inconsolable dissatispacktion. Etymology: incapacitate + package Created by: Clayton.

Cellopain: /-ˈsɛləˌpeɪn-/ It almost seems that as technology gets more advanced and everything else becomes better designed, packaging produces more cellopain, not less. Etymology: from cellophane + pain Created by: ErWenn.

Autodiscomutilate: /aw-to-dis-co-MU-ti-late/ He autodiscomutilated with the newest Windows Vista. Etymology: auto = self disco = any type of discs (CDs, DVDs, VCDs, CD-ROMs, etc.) mutilate = mutilation of both the physical self and the mental self Created by: duchessella.

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=shrink

Be Creative,

James

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