Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: reem-luv

Sentence: Every night I hope and pray a reamlover will come my way A girl to hold in my arms and know the magic of her charms 'cause I don't want (want) a file (a fiel) to fall (to fall) apart (apart) I want a reamlover so all my correspondence is truly secure in a filing cabinet

Etymology: ream (pack of paper) + love + dreamlover

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COMMENTS:

with credit to the misfits - petaj, 2007-11-07: 02:33:00

Love it. Whose been channelling Bobby Darin!? - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 04:58:00

Ancient Egyptians referred to it as papylust. Thanks for ousting Reamweaver from my skull. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-07: 12:03:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: däkyəməntl

Sentence: Millie doesn*t trust computers. She prints out every e-mail, report and memo that comes her way. She is so documental that she even prints notices from her e-mail service telling her that her inbox is over its limit. She spends so much time sorting and filing her paper that she barely has any time to do her work as an efficiency expert.

Etymology: document (a piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record) + mental (insane; crazy)

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Created by: bzav1

Pronunciation: clear-ick-al-a-mity

Sentence: A colossal clericalamity, Jane had changed the lock for the photocopy room and insisted that all office correspondence pass through her in order to be categorized by a colour coding that she had devised.

Etymology: clerical+calamity

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: file/an/throw/pist

Sentence: Noted for her many benevolent efforts, the famous fileanthropist Felicity Fileworthy established a museum for the printed word. The building itself is constructed of papier mache.

Etymology: file + philanthropist

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COMMENTS:

Papier mache, a nice touch. - artr, 2008-10-06: 06:16:00

Nice! - TJayzz, 2008-10-06: 06:50:00

So you dabble in fileanthropy? - zxvasdf, 2008-10-06: 10:51:00

"curses - filed again" - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 11:58:00

haha - zxvasdf, 2008-10-06: 13:47:00

Good one - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-07: 04:48:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: dok-yuh-MEN-sha

Sentence: As memomagma poured from Roxie's printer, fellow worker worried that her documentia would become dendricidal.

Etymology: Blend of document & dementia.

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COMMENTS:

So clever!! Almost.... too clever... - libertybelle, 2007-11-07: 09:14:00

I think most lawyers suffer from this disease. - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-07: 09:40:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: sy-kot-ih-kop-ee

Sentence: Studies have shown that most office workers over the age of 50 have succumbed to varying degrees of psychoticopying during their tenure.

Etymology: psychotic + copy

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COMMENTS:

another great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-07: 10:38:00

Looks good:great symmetry about it! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:39:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Lex-marx-uh-lot

Sentence: Mildred made so many copies she burned out three new office printers in a month and was given the nickname "Lexmarksalot".

Etymology: Lexmark printers, = marks-a-lot pens

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Created by: leechdude

Pronunciation: pas-ter-pulp

Sentence: No one from the "Green Club" favoured Susan's actions when she started pasterpulping frantically.

Etymology: paste (print), pulp (element of paper)

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COMMENTS:

my fourth creation - leechdude, 2007-11-07: 22:37:00

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Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: ee-for-est-station

Sentence: Kellie could never shake the old adage drummed into her since back in the days before eforestation was coined as a winning word on Verbotomy dot com. "If it's not printed out on fan-fold, continuous stripy green paper, it's not backed-up", she'd mumble.

Etymology: (d)eforestation: electronic removal of a forest or stand of trees

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: brink jet

Sentence: Sally was on the brinkjet of rainforest annihilation while printing off every online e-mail and report in her company. Thanks to her boss who caught her in time, the forests in North and South AMerica can now rest easier.

Etymology: Brink (the limit beyond which something happens or changes) & Inkjet (type of computer printing that creates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper)

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