Verboticisms

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: New-mans-own

Sentence: "Who was that guy in the 'Butch and Sundance' film who donates all the profits to charity?", asked Alyssa as she brusquely reached for the bottle, squeezed, and fell victim to yet another heartless pneumanzoning from her grinning boyfriend.

Etymology: Pneuma: prefix meaning "full of air", man: as in "manual", zone: referring to the splatter area as a ratio of the release of air in direct proportion to valuable family heirlooms and furniture.

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: shim-ee-saws-eh-vayte

Sentence: Her hair stylist couldn't remove the orange-red stain from her hair which was due to the Russian salad dressing she had shimmysaucivated all over her hair the day before.

Etymology: shimmy + sauce

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COMMENTS:

saucivate sounds great on its own but the sauce gives it a bit more pizzaz - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-23: 16:10:00

thanks, I had considered switching it around to saucyshimmivate but it sounded like some sort of dance move from the 1950's... - remistram, 2007-10-24: 09:43:00

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Created by: lawlore

Pronunciation: flid-l

Sentence: I loved my girlfriend, but she had so many annoying habits. I got so sick of her fliddling every time we went out to dinner- she thought it was sooooo funny, but I think she just had shares in my dry cleaners.

Etymology: Portmanteau of fiddle (v., in the sense of "to interfere or play with") and lid (n., the top of a container)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ka/puhngk/d

Sentence: Jeremy capunked three different people at dinner last night leaving ketchup, mustard and oil and vinegar on the walls, ceiling and floors, not to mention his victims.

Etymology: CAPUNKED - verb - from CAP (a close-fitting covering for a bottle, or jar) + PUNKED (to "get" someone in a practical joke; someone caught unaware in a practical joke)

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Created by: Lolagrrl

Pronunciation: hid + den + foll + ee + oh + ranch

Sentence: Shannon's supposedly clever hiddenfollyoranch ruined my shirt. The outcome pleased her greatly because she had attained her day's goal by noon... Yup. Nothing left for her to do but play computer solitaire.

Etymology: Hidden - to prevent the disclosure of + Folly - A lack of good sense + of + Ranch - The salad dressing

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COMMENTS:

terrific word! - libertybelle, 2007-10-23: 09:17:00

Haha! Thanks! :D - Lolagrrl, 2007-10-23: 09:32:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ka/puhngk/d

Sentence: Jeremy capunked three different people at dinner last night leaving ketchup, mustard and oil and vinegar on the walls, ceiling and floors, not to mention his victims.

Etymology: CAPUNKED - verb - from CAP (a close-fitting covering for a bottle, or jar) + PUNKED (to "get" someone in a practical joke; someone caught unaware in a practical joke)

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COMMENTS:

CAPUNKED: A Mob Hit. What Al Capone's show would have been called. - zxvasdf, 2008-09-21: 21:24:00

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Created by: sallybeth

Pronunciation: saw-ser-pie-se

Sentence: Damn! He saucerpised me again

Etymology: sauce + surprise

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: see-sar-prize

Sentence: Looking at the thousand island covered walls, Dean knew that Marie had left him a Caesarprise with his salad for lunch today.

Etymology: Caesar + surprise

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: shake-en-fake

Sentence: That Bob, such a wisecapper! He would shake-n-fake every bottle in the house, right after replacing the sugar with salt.

Etymology: Shake 'n' Bake, fake

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COMMENTS:

Nice word, who do those wisecappers think they are anyway!!! - pungineer, 2007-10-23: 08:02:00

They're all screwed loose. - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-23: 11:54:00

great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-23: 12:11:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: condiment

Sentence: Doris's mother-in-law loved to poke around in the fridge whenever she came to visit. She would pull out all the sauce and dressings bottles, giving them a firm shake and peering at the use by dates before exclaiming loudly to embarrass Doris, when she found an old one. This time, Doris had a cunning plan to thwart the old biddy. Her fridge was now full of connedements - at the first shake, her mother-in-law was sure to get a face full of thousand island dressing, fish sauce or aioli.

Etymology: conned (subject to a confidence trick) + dement (to cause someone to lose their faculties) + condiment (accompaniments for your food)

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COMMENTS:

Hey Petaj - welcome back!! Great word today - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-19: 09:25:00

Good one! - Mustang, 2008-09-19: 17:13:00

Welcome back...my connedeplements on your word! - Nosila, 2008-09-19: 20:08:00

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