Verboticisms

Created by: astorey

Pronunciation: a/noy/sum

Sentence: After his divorce, Brian was back on the market and ready to let everyone in the office know it. Not that they had any doubt, as you could smell his Drakkar Noir from several offices away. No one was brave enough to confront Brian and his annoysome grooming habits, for fear that he would lapse back into his self-pitying wallow.

Etymology: Combination of annoy and noisome: offensively malodorous

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COMMENTS:

Wow. You pull no punches. I like it, astorey! - metrohumanx, 2008-09-02: 12:17:00

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Created by: tizher

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Because Roger was always upfunky in the afternoon his colleagues used the stairs.

Etymology: "Up" from close up and from (on a)high "funky" - not smelling quite right.

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: un smelf KAHN shus

Sentence: Harry was an unsmelfconscious kind of guy. B.O., bad breath, farting, it didn't matter - he said, "Love me, love my smells. That's what makes me a manly man!" A very lonely man too, as it turned out.

Etymology: unselfconscious + smell

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /fungk-on-shuss/

Sentence: Carlos thought of himself as the office 'Romeo,' stopping to try to speak to all the young ladies who worked there. Unfortunately, he was completely funkonscious — totally unaware of his strong body odor, not to mention his bad breath. None of his conversations lasted very long, but he was blissfully ignorant of why.

Etymology: Funk - a strong smell; stench (from dial. French, funkière "smoke") + Unconscious - without awareness, sensation, or cognition (from Latin, un- "not" & conscius "knowing, aware")

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈfɪləˌstɪŋk/

Sentence: The culture in the U.S. is such that we've become quite sensitive to body odors, so it takes a true philistink to blissfully remain odorous in the face of wrinkled noses, backpedaling, and flat-out insults.

Etymology: From philistine (a person who is lacking in or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc.) + stink (a strong, offensive smell)

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COMMENTS:

I'm not actually sure how many people are familiar with the word "philistine," and it's just not as funny if you have to look up the definition. - ErWenn, 2007-10-02: 01:40:00

I got it straight off. Good one. - petaj, 2007-10-02: 08:29:00

great word ErWenn - it conveys the appropriate attitude as well - gets my vote - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-02: 12:48:00

There's a strong sense about it. Sentence so true. Excellent - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-02: 18:45:00

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Created by: mchristof

Pronunciation: far-tiv-ee-us

Sentence: You know, at some point you have to ask: is it me? Am I being fartivious?

Etymology: Fart - to expel internal gas through the anus. Oblivious - Not aware of or concerned about what is happening around one.

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Created by: BSqueeze4

Pronunciation: U-stink-quit-us

Sentence: His ustinkquitous stench filled the room, emanating from his ten-year-old sneakers.

Etymology: Ubiquitous and stink

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Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: spree-kuh

Sentence: Why is it that spreeks are always men who wear sleeveless t-shirts? They always smell of B.O. or patchouli essential oil. Sometimes, with a master spreek, it's a stenchful mixture of the two.

Etymology: 'S' from smell + 'P' from perspire + reek = spreek

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Ol-facta-salt

Sentence: The hideous odors emanating from Horace following his workouts amounted to an olfactassault on his co-workers

Etymology: Olfactory + assault

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Created by: ajnemajrje

Pronunciation: Pronounced exactly as you woudl arrogant but with the a hand gesture of waving a smell away

Sentence: That John sure is airogant

Etymology: replace the arr in the word arrogant with AIR

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