Verboticisms

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Stork-off-der-town

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: fla-tur-gas-ted

Sentence: Jill was flattergasted when she saw the number one video of the day, "Jill Does Dallas."

Etymology: flattered, flabbergasted

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COMMENTS:

gas! - galwaywegian, 2007-04-25: 05:18:00

You've really captured pythinahabernos' original idea: "The sensation of combined flattery and horror engendered when..." - wordmeister, 2007-04-25: 10:21:00

Yep. This one gets my stamp of approval. :) - PythianHabenero, 2007-04-25: 11:37:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: gal lur eeeek

Sentence: When her friend Giles asked her to his loft, Heather was appalled to find the place was a shrine to her, with thousands of shots of her hanging on every wall. When she ran out, she went to the police and complained about the galleryeek. Giles isn't her friend anymore, since she got him jailed for stalking. Giles is too tired to think about Heather. His new roomie, Big Tiny, has now taken to plastering their cell with pictures of Giles and gives him long hungry glances. Giles sits up wide awake each night with his back to the wall. If you hang pictures in a prison, does that gallery becomes a cellery?

Etymology: Gallery (a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited) & Gall (inclined to take liberties;a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will)& Reek (offensively unpleasant) & Eek (cartoon word to describe a squeal of fright)

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: creep GAL er e

Sentence: When Jill stumbled upon Jack's creepgallery, she knew he'd become a real creep. How DID he get those pictures? His collection revealed he'd really fallen for her. Who would want a picture of her picking her nose? Jill was certain Jack's fall last year had warped her friend's frontal cortex (or whatever part of the brain responsible for judgement and reason)!

Etymology: From: creep (the noun and verb) and gallery.

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: PAWRN-thee-on

Sentence: Roxie became concerned when she discovered that a casual acquaintance was maintaining a lovingly tended porntheon of her in his bedroom. She feared that the stiff-leather, brief case that this E-lewdster constantly carried and guarded so religiously, might be a pornmanteau.

Etymology: Blend of PORN (short for pornography) & PANTHENON:Shrine of the gods. E-lewdster. Electronic pervert- Lewdster coined by Shakespeare, "Against such lewdsters and their lechery Those that betray them do no treachery." Merry Wivesof Windsor. Act v, sc. 3, l23. (Mrs Page) The only use of "Lewdsters"

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COMMENTS:

PORNTHEON is a sarcasticlassic. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-02: 02:31:00

walking on Athena ice with this one - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-02: 15:54:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: koh-dak-ah-tack

Sentence: Sue had a major kodakattack when she discovered Bob's bedroom shrine of her half-clad images.

Etymology: Kodak, heart attack

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: true man tie zd

Sentence: she was severely trumantised by joe's very misguided and very public affection.

Etymology: truman show, traumatised

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No doubt Joe was just trying to be trumantic. - petaj, 2007-04-25: 05:24:00

how true, man - galwaywegian, 2007-04-25: 05:39:00

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Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: dis-con-naw-se-ate

Sentence: Steve was disconnauseated at seeing that Brian had pasted photographs of his face over the faces of the models in the Victoria's Secret Catalog.

Etymology: discombobulate, nauseate

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better than other peoples'. you perfectly gave a word FOR the definition. - ohwtepph, 2007-04-25: 19:55:00

It's a good word, but I'm not sure it better fits the description than many others as Ohwtepph mentions. I think it better describes the emotional reaction to the discovery itself. But I think paying too close attention to the "rules" of the game is unpardonable in cases such as this. Afterall, it just limits the fun we have. - petaj, 2007-04-25: 23:18:00

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: tok/sic/stok/sin/drome

Sentence: Jill had to be rushed to the hospital with toxicstalksyndrome after visiting Jack

Etymology: toxic shock syndrome + stalk

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: wood stok

Sentence: When Mary discovered the shrine to her in "just friends" pal Oliver's creepy lair, she knew he must have been to wouldstalk...eeewwwwhhhh!

Etymology: Would (verabal tense of word will...to express desire or intent) & Stalk (the act of following prey stealthily;a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush) & Wordplay on "Woodstock" ( A village of southeast New York south-southwest of Albany. In 1969 a large rock music festival named after the village was held at nearby small town in the Catskill Mountains)

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