Verboticisms

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: park-tik-you-lur

Sentence: Jill had her coupons in hand for the huge sale. If she hadn't been so parkticular about getting the closest parking space, she might have got in the store before it closed.

Etymology: park, particular

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Created by: HubbMU

Pronunciation: wal-thar-gy

Sentence: My sense of walthargy keeps me from parking in the back.

Etymology: Wal-Mart, due to its largess of parking (and people), and lethargy.

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Created by: fanfan

Pronunciation: F.A.N.F.A.N

Sentence: french

Etymology: françois

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nickname - fanfan, 2007-05-03: 04:55:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /pahrk-SNIK-i-tee/

Sentence: On their sixth lap around the parking lot, Lois decided that Mike was just too parksnickety. They'd been driving in circles for almost ten minutes now, but it would have taken little more than a minute to walk across the entire parking lot. Mike had passed up every empty spot further than ten spaces away from the front door of the department store, and cursed every time someone else pulled in before he could get there. She just sighed and rubbed her temples again — Mike never won at Parking Lot Bingo, and she knew that asking him to park further out would only start an argument.

Etymology: Park - to place or leave a vehicle in a certain location (from Old English, pearruc "paddock") + Persnickety - requiring painstaking care; overparticular; fussy (extended form of Scottish, pernicky; of uncertain origin, possibly from 'particular')

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COMMENTS:

like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-15: 16:19:00

A word I can use in the future!! - Mustang, 2008-07-15: 19:45:00

Lovely. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-16: 06:56:00

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Created by: heb319

Pronunciation: loop eee park ub ses

Sentence: Although Susan was really just wasting time and gas, she was certain if she continued to loopyparkobesess long enough she would find the greatest parking space humanity had ever created.

Etymology: loop park obsess

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: park a die ssss

Sentence: After circling for three hours he found parkadise, a nirvana for his van within inches of the gas station which he would need after the game.

Etymology: paradise park

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Created by: trunktickle

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Created by: illaphilla

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Etymology: circle + parallel/paralyze

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: bəmpərstôkng

Sentence: Joyce is an expert at bumperstalking. As people leave a store she will pull in behind them to follow them back to their car. She creeps up so close to some people that they jump and scream when she brushes the back of their legs. Once they pass the 5th car in line she drops them like a bad habit and circles around for another victim.

Etymology: bumper (a horizontal bar fixed across the front or back of a motor vehicle to reduce damage in a collision) + stalking (pursue or approach stealthily)

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Created by: Sed8ed

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