Tag: Verbotomy

DEFINITION: v. To secretly take a photo of someone with your cellphone. n. A cellphone photo, especially if it was taken surreptitiously.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Surrepicturious: /sur-uh-pik-cher-uhs/ The proliferation of camera phones has meant an explosion of surrepicturious moments. Etymology: surreptitious(obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized) + picture (photograph) Created by: artr2.

Smartshot: /smɑːtːʃɒt/ Buster became very swift with the old 1:2, or was it 4:3? It didn’t matter, the smartshot was another knockout. Etymology: Smart : Clever like a phone, ring like a good verbotomy word. Shot : Photograph, perhaps cheap. Also to strike a blow, esp. in boxing. Created by: scrabbelicious.

Photosecrosy: // I just hate People commiting Photosecrosy! Etymology: Created by: tripnfallpivot.

Eyepawed: /eye pod/ Electronic devices have been a God-send for shy and somewhat bizarre people like Julie. When she gets a crush on some hot guy in her school (like a new one each week…way out of her league), she follows him around and secretly takes pics of him for her to daydream over. These poor guys don’t even know they are being eyepawed by a stalker like Julie. Doesn’t she watch CSI or Criminal Minds? This is how they eventually takedown people like her when the restraining order is enforced. Etymology: Eye Pawed (to touch/drool over with your eyes) & Wordplay on iPod (portable media device range of products produced by Apple Inc, including ones with camera connectors) Created by: Nosila.

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DEFINITION: v. To secretly take a photo of someone with your cellphone. n. A cellphone photo, especially if it was taken surreptitiously.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Smartshot: /smɑːtːʃɒt/ Buster became very swift with the old 1:2, or was it 4:3? It didn’t matter, the smartshot was another knockout. Etymology: Smart : Clever like a phone, ring like a good verbotomy word. Shot : Photograph, perhaps cheap. Also to strike a blow, esp. in boxing. Created by: scrabbelicious.

Surrepicturious: /sur-uh-pik-cher-uhs/ The proliferation of camera phones has meant an explosion of surrepicturious moments. Etymology: surreptitious(obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized) + picture (photograph) Created by: artr2.

Photosecrosy: // I just hate People commiting Photosecrosy! Etymology: Created by: tripnfallpivot.

Eyepawed: /eye pod/ Electronic devices have been a God-send for shy and somewhat bizarre people like Julie. When she gets a crush on some hot guy in her school (like a new one each week…way out of her league), she follows him around and secretly takes pics of him for her to daydream over. These poor guys don’t even know they are being eyepawed by a stalker like Julie. Doesn’t she watch CSI or Criminal Minds? This is how they eventually takedown people like her when the restraining order is enforced. Etymology: Eye Pawed (to touch/drool over with your eyes) & Wordplay on iPod (portable media device range of products produced by Apple Inc, including ones with camera connectors) Created by: Nosila.

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DEFINITION: v. To fight with your neighbors, not because of your differences, and not because of what you have in common, but simply because you are stuck right next to each other. n. A border between neighbors and enemies.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Imaginotline: /e:mág:on:á:lie:n/ Relations between Manfred and Tobefrank got so bad, almost unimaginably bad, that the local neighbourhood watch insisted they increase the width of their imaginotline or move to another ghetto. Etymology: A truce declared between 1-) Imagine: To conceive or form an image in one’s own mind. 2-)Maginot line
a line of defensive fortifications constructed by the French along their eastern border, extending from Switzerland to Luxembourg, between 1929 and 1936.
• [as n. ] (also Maginot line) an impressive but often ineffectual means of protection or defense Created by: scrabbelicious.

Proxenemies: /proksenuhmeez/ A deep snow, hours of shoveling and a limited number of parking spaces can make proxenemies out of previously-friendly neighbors. Etymology: proximity (nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation) + enemies (an adversary or opponent) Created by: artr2.

Frenemal: /fren e mal/ The relationship with my neighbors is frenemal. If his sprinklers keep hitting my car I’m going to get frenmal on him! The smoke from the barbeque wafted over frenemal lines. Etymology: Frenemy (friends and enemies). Animal, as in animal behavior, not intelligent, savage. Created by: spotter.

Fencenemies: /fen sen em ees/ The neighbours often saw the Browns & The Smiths next door to them fighting over petty things, like in whose yard whose cat toiletted and whose tree was overhanging whose yard. The walkway between their yards was like the Demilitarized Zone…neutral but dangerous with the possibility of being caught in the crossfire. Their parents always said they fought tooth and nail growing up and now they were fencenemies. Just what possessed this brother and sister to buy homes next door to each other is still a mystery. Etymology: Fence (a boundary line created by a fence) & Enemies (not friends;any group of hostile people) Created by: Nosila.

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DEFINITION: v. To worry about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the ultimate demise of our planet. n. Anxiety caused by the fear of nuclear bumblers.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Polymal: /(v) poly-mal / The nuclear war will cause polymal. The apes will attack with their nuclear warfare. Etymology: Created by: MissB5.

Nuclefear: /nookleefeer/ Every news report about Iran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb adds to Walter’s nuclefear. Etymology: nuclear (pertaining to or involving atomic weapons) + fear (a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc) Created by: artr2.

Reactoreaction: /re ak tor re ak shun/ After the professor gave his lecture about nuclear proliferation and its destruction of our world, Enola had a reactoreaction. She worried that her nuclear family would not understand and would be in con-fusion if they knew about this disaster. Their fission vacations would change, no more gathering mushrooms and they would have a chain reaction to this news. She decided not to alarm them and to instead just Fermi la bouche! Etymology: Reactor ((physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements) & Reaction (a process in which one or more substances are changed into others & an idea evoked by some experience) Created by: Nosila.

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DEFINITION: n. A person who has difficulty controlling their pets, especially if they often become entangled in the leashes. v. To get entangled in the leashes of one’s pets.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Leaderhosing: /lÄ“dÉ™rhōzng/ When they go for a walk Ralph’s dogs like to go wherever they want without regard for what happens with their leashes. A couple quick laps around his leg can leave him with a thorough leaderhosing. Etymology: leader (leash) + hosing (defeat) Created by: artr2.

Muzzletough: /muz zel tuff/ When Abe walked his two frisky dogs each day, he had great difficulty in controlling their behavior. You could even say it was muzzletough for him to keep them in line. Etymology: Muzzle(restraint device to keep a dog from biting) & Tough (hard to do) & Wordplay on Mazel Tov (Hebrew words for Good Luck) Created by: Nosila.

Traingled: /train-gld/ Sperry Spazolia always got traingled up in the leashes of his pedigreed pets. Etymology: Train- Teach (a person or animal) a particular skill or type of behavior through practice and instruction over a period of time.
Tangled – Existing in or giving the appearance of a state of utter disorder. Created by: abrakadeborah.

Alphaineptitude: // Etymology: Created by: lizard.

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