Verboticisms

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: lie-ah-ree

Sentence: as he realised he'd forgotten her birthday he quickly pulled out his liary to convince her that her birthday wasn't until next week

Etymology: liar, diary

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: calen-dangle

Sentence: Chris always left me calendangling because he could always come up with an excuse for a much higher priority event that was on at the "same" time.

Etymology: calendar + dangle (like a telephone handset when the caller has run off)

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Created by: fastward

Pronunciation: delor eanate

Sentence: He tried to deloreanate his wedding date for tax purposes.

Etymology: A Delorean automobile was turned into a time machine.

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: KROHN-oh-flam-ming

Sentence: Twila often mailed post-dated checks to the utility companies, just in case she was a few dollars short, which was still one of the more harmless ways she expressed her congenital need to engage in daily chronoflamming.

Etymology: Chrono- (time prefix) + flamming (trickery or deception)

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COMMENTS:

a very chrono logical sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:13:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: gild + spree

Sentence: Worried that his working-class roots, would be discovered, Bob felt that he needed a background makeover to take him to a top job at the blue-blood, dominated legal firm where he just started to work. Immediately, he set out on a gildspree to goldproof his future. First he changed his place of birth, then his late father's occupation and, finally, to add a bit more self-sparkle, put it around that his maternal grandmother was european royalty. A gildmonger he was, a skilled one, he thought, but would he find out the hard way that all that glitters may not be gold.

Etymology: gild, (OE): a thin layer of gold put on & spree (ON): to run freely..

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COMMENTS:

One midassume that he had the golden touch - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:10:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: fuj-ew-ull

Sentence: As he totally forgot his wife's birthday, he had to fudgule it.

Etymology: fudge, schedule

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COMMENTS:

I hope his birthday plans include a chocolate fudge cake - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:32:00

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Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: whist-wash

Sentence: By whistwashing the family tree, we were able to ignore what would otherwise have been anomalies, such as wedding dates post-offspring and relationships likely to promote the recessive. Unfortunately, the technique did nothing to limit the number of chinless wonders at family gatherings!

Etymology: whitewash + history

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COMMENTS:

I also saw "wistful" in it. - mplsbohemian, 2007-08-01: 12:11:00

But with our relations, no "fistful!" - administraitor, 2007-08-01: 13:53:00

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Created by: ChristopherAndersen

Pronunciation: RET ro vize

Sentence: They decided to retrovise their daughter's birthday to AFTER the wedding.

Etymology: retro: backward, and vise: see or view

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Created by: tatterdemalion

Pronunciation: dayt-LIE-in

Sentence: Dave relied on datelyin to get himself out of many a chronological conundrum.

Etymology: date + lying

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: MEW/date

Sentence: Like Joseph Stalin did with Russian history, Fred had to mudate his past. So Fred went through a transmudation, eliminating from his life all the dates and events which he didn't like, especially his first wife and their divorce. His transmudation was such a liberating experience he wrote a best seller self-help book "Mudate Your Way To Success and Happiness".

Etymology: mutate + date

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