Tag: Verbotomy

DEFINITION: v. To go to the store and buy something, but then to forget to bring it home. n. A person who forgets what they bought — until the credit card bill comes in.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Purchass: /per chass/ Larry’s wife hated shopping with him. He grew so distracted by any and everfything at the mall that he would forget what he bought and where he put it. He could be a real purchass sometimes. Etymology: Purchase (something bought;to buy something) & Ass (an idiot;someone dumb) Created by: Nosila.

Shopadaisical: /shop-uh-DAY-zi-cul/ While on his routine shopping outings Bradley was quite shopadaisical, distracted by the sales signs, any and all activity going on around him and as often as not he would walk off after paying and leave his shopping basket at the checkout or on occasion was known to leave his purchases in the basket in the parking lot, get in his car and drive off. Etymology: Blend of ‘shopper’ (buyer) and ‘lackadaisical’ (inattentive, uninspired) Created by: Mustang.

Shurk: /Sherk/ Did you sherk the bag you bought at Prada earlier?

Oh you’re such a sherk! It’s the second time today you’ve forgotten what you bought at the store! Etymology: Created by: ayyacoco.

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DEFINITION: v. To yell at a store clerk for correctly doing something that is clearly part of their job. n. A shopper who believes, as a “customer”, it’s their duty to bother, berate and belittle the people who serve them.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Clerkuss: /clek-cuss/ Clayton is a belligerent, crude, and thoroughly asinine person and a customer of dubious character who passed up no opportunity to clerkuss store clerks even when the service was superb. Etymology: Blend of ‘clerk’ (service attendant in retail outlets) and ‘cuss’ (swear, use vile language) Created by: Mustang.

Buyonicman: /by on ik man/ Let’s just say Steve Austin was a shopoholic before he became a buyonicman. In becoming a semi-robot after a hideous accident, he lost his humanity to retail staff. He should treat store staff like the sell-ebrities they really are… Etymology: Bionic (having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components) & BUY (to purchse something for money) & Bionic Man (old TV series of the rebuilt man who went stronger, harder faster) Created by: Nosila.

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DEFINITION: v. To “adopt” a cute, baby, wild animal as a pet, which then grows up to become a very large, very wild, and very dangerous predator. n. A person who treats wild animals like pets, only to discover that they are not.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Adderation: /ad der ay shun/ When Katy returned home, her adderation for Boadicea, the pet snake her husband Henry kept soon turned to horror. Eating Henry meant she was no longer a civil serpent. Etymology: Adder (snake species) & Adoration (feeling of profound love) Created by: Nosila.

Petzillawoe: /pet-ZILL-eh-wo/ After having to call professionals in the past to deal with the cuddly chimp and the fuzzy panther he acquired as babies and watched them grow into dangerous creatures, Willard felt again the pangs of petzillawoe when the cute little python he bought as a newborn turned out to be, in fact, a dangerous anaconda. Etymology: Blend of ‘pet’ (usually a small personally owned animal) and ‘woe’ (troubles) and is a play on ‘Godzilla’, a fictional monster Created by: Mustang.

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DEFINITION: n. The desire to convert items with sentimental value, like antique hand-crafted jewelery, back into the raw material, like gold bullion, to access its commercial value. v. To cash in something with sentimental value.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Smeltiment: /smel tim ent/ Roy surptised Rachel by throwing all her inherited jewellery into a pot on the stove to extract the precious metals. His smeltiment towards her prized antiques quickly turned to confusion. Seems they made fakes in the old days, too and she ended up with a sentimelted blob in her good cooking pots and nothing to remember Grandma by…Roy turned out to be an alchemissed. Etymology: Smelt (extract metals by heating)
& Sentiment (tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion)
Created by: Nosila.

Recyclophobia: /re-cyc-loh-FO-bya/ Marshall had always been into recycling for environmental concerns but with the turndown in the economy he had become totally recyclophobic even going so far as to melt down family heirlooms, coin collections, and anything else he thought had even a remote chance of containing precious metals. Etymology: Blend of ‘recycle’ (return metals etc to their natural state for reuse) and ‘phobia’ (phobic)(irrational fear) Created by: Mustang.

Heirnecity: // Etymology: Created by: jamestsmith70.

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DEFINITION: n. The feelings that well up inside of you when you’re waiting for service and another person, who arrived after you did, gets waited first! v. To wait and wait in line, only to watch other people jump the queue.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Scanticipation: /skan tisi payshun/ Freddy the chicken awaited the farmer’s visit each day, thinking he would selected for favoured treatment. Every day though, some one else was chosen. He was experiencing severe scanticipation when one day he was chosen…not knowing why. Authorities now believe he was the victim of fowl play. Etymology: Scant (deal with inadequately and superficially) & Anticipation (wishing with confidence of fulfillment)
Created by: Nosila.

Queuerage: /CUE-raj/ As she watched yet another shopper manage to slip in line ahead of her as she waited, Bertha felt welling queuerage building inside and only through concentrated effort was she able to quell an outburst of screaming and cursing. Etymology: Blend of ‘queue’ ( a waiting line especially of persons or vehicles) and ‘rage’ (extreme anger) Created by: Mustang.

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