Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ərkō

Sentence: Mike doesn’t care for his new intern. Instead of learning and adopting Mike’s best talents and habits he irchos the worse. All the bad habits and traits he tries to hide behind his cubicle walls come back to smack him in the face.

Etymology: irk (irritate; annoy) + echo (a person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another)

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Created by: astraea22

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: mir-ri-tate

Sentence: Jill manages to mirritate david, using the same annoying snort, as she tries to clear her nasil passage.

Etymology: mirror, as in mimick/irritate

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Created by: simoneshin

Pronunciation: hahr-suh-siz-uhm

Sentence: with his finger almost touching his brain, mel ventured his disapproval of brad picking his nose. realising that was a moment of pure harsissism.

Etymology: harsh; ungentle, unpleasant narcissism; excessive self-love

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Created by: urbanwookie

Pronunciation: mim-eo-pathy

Sentence: Justin was such a profound mimeopath it was surprising he could bear people breathing in the same room...

Etymology: mimeo (duplicate, copy) + pathy (Feeling, suffering, perception)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: herr ed it ik

Sentence: the hereditic was finally proven when aunt Agatha replayed her video recording of john's christening to find a conversation where four generations of Murphy men had their fingers up their nostrils while talking.

Etymology: heredititary, tic

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: eh-co-reh-TAY-shun

Sentence: Seeing or hearing some of his own peccadilloes and bad habits from his friends and acquaintenances always causes Wilmer to experience severe bouts of echorritation wherein he shouts the same epithets and insults that they toss his way when HE does or says those things.

Etymology: Blend of 'echo' and 'irritation'

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Created by: ArtCFantaC

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Created by: swallowedbyafish

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Sentence: He and his roommate were stuck in a taxing sinbiosis.

Etymology: sin + symbiosis

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: slob-in-me-be-itchin or -bitchin

Sentence: I find the slobinmebitchin whenever my brother picks it, licks it, rolls it and flicks it.

Etymology: From "slob" meaning "Weezer tune", "in me" and "be itching" or "bitchin". Slobs usually have bad habits, itching is an irritation, and the "in me" covers the mirror bit.

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