Verboticisms

Created by: efreet69

Pronunciation: krass-tur-NA-shun

Sentence: He is so cheap when it comes to gift buying; he shows the ultimate in crassternation.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: prez sen tens

Sentence: The minute she walked in the door after work, Kelly had the feeling of presentense. The reason was that although she had intended to get Wesley a birthday gift, the truth was she clean forgot about it. She rallied by saying that it was out in her car. She ran out to Walmart and was able to grab him something. He was so willing to believe her that he failed to notice it took her an hour to bring in it from her car.

Etymology: Present (gift) & Tense (uneasy or nervous or anxious) & Wordplay on Present tense (a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking)

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌθiəˈɹikɑl/

Sentence: One can theorecall major events, which often results in lots of head-smacking and an inability to get sympathy from anyone, but it's also possible to theorecall simple things. For example, one might remember to go to the store but end up buying snacks instead of milk and eggs.

Etymology: From theoretical + recall

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: kwā-zĭp'əth-ē

Sentence: Its not that I don't care about special days. I have quasipathy about the situation. Sure, acknowledgment might be in order, but blathering celebration seems a bit much. (also: quasipathetic)

Etymology: quasi ('To some degree') + pathos ('feeling'... as in sympathy or empathy)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: uh o kay sjun

Sentence: Being that Noel's birthday is on Dec.25, no one remembers to get him a birthday present. His uhohccasion is lumped in with the Christmas celebrations and people seldom remember to get him a separate birthday gift.

Etymology: Uh oh (Oops!)(Used to express acknowledgement of a blunder, or mistake) & Occasion (event, milestone,celebration)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: bərθdāz

Sentence: Brenda has a mind like a steel trap. She can remember every day of her life in vivid detail. Where other people have an internal clock, she has an internal calendar. She can call up any of her friend*s anniversaries, birthdays or graduation dates. She can tell you the date that each of her siblings each lost each of their baby teeth. What she can*t do is turn any of that memory power into action. As dates roll by she is in an anniversary stupor, a birthdaze, never once getting so much as a card for anyone she knows. She loves the phrase **It*s the thought that counts** because that*s all she ever has.

Etymology: birthday (the annual anniversary of the day on which a person was born, typically treated as an occasion for celebration and present-giving) + daze (unable to think or react properly; stupefy; bewilder)

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Created by: riflesandkids74

Pronunciation: neh-glih-brayt

Sentence: I tried to explain to Carie that i didn't intend to neglibrate her dog's 3rd birthday, but she would no longer have it, and she ran off with Lu-Lu under her arm.

Etymology: neglect and celibrate

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: diss + el + eh + brate

Sentence: Hey, I knew it was your anniversary, I just chose to disselebrate it.

Etymology: diss + celebrate

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: nuhn-ih-VURRS-uh-ree

Sentence: Alex's birthday was yet another noneiversary, and he cleared out closet space in vain.

Etymology: none + anniversary

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: nairy annee vers nairy

Sentence: You just knew that after 37 years, the honeymoon was over. In the early years, Peaches and Howard had bought each other elaborate gifts and surprises to mark their wedding anniversaries...exotic trips, a new home, elegant gifts and expensive cameras, perfumes,jewellery, etc. After that long, people start to take each other for granted. Medicines and their side effects to keep symptoms at bay replace romance and passion with menopause,ED,gastro reflux and more frequent potty trips. Now they celebrated a naryanniversnary. Maybe he'd remember to shave that day and maybe she'd cook him a nice supper. They still loved each other, but they didn't remember why. Life just sometimes gets in the way of love...

Etymology: Nary (negative;not in any degree or manner; not at all) & Anniversary (the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it);ie: a wedding)

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