Verboticisms

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: chan-tag-uh-nahyzd

Sentence: Unfortunately, on the one day in the last year that she forgot to hang her parking pass, an eager, new tow company employee was patrolling the lot; yet she refused to feel chantagonized as she took a cab home that evening.

Etymology: chance + antagonized

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Created by: haldean

Pronunciation: sur-PRY-za-POYNT-ment

Sentence: What's wrong? Oh just another surprisapointment. Everything was going perfectly, until my two girlfriends met each other.

Etymology: Suprise + Disappointment

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Created by: earljw

Pronunciation: DAY-e-trik

Sentence: I had an overwhelming sense of deitrick when I realized I was late for an interview and my car wouldn't start.

Etymology: deity + trick

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: kahr-krool-mah

Sentence: Don't cry over spilled milk and that's how the cookie crumbles - typical comments she would blurt out when bouts of karcruelma occurred.

Etymology: karma + cruel

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Created by: Nettle

Pronunciation: in-kon-STRAY-shun

Sentence: To Percy's great inconstration, the cat knocked his glass of cola onto his carefully-completed passport application form.

Etymology: In as a negatory + contentment + frustration = inconstration

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Created by: Lurky2000

Pronunciation: Prank-Shus

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: Moi -ron - ic

Sentence: Jody was thrilled when she discovered the beautiful antique cabinet at a yard sale for only $2. She spent the entire drive home planning how she would arrange her Hummel figurines in it. It was overwhelmingly moironic that when she arrived home, she found that her house had burned to the ground. All that was left of her extensive collection was a melted puddle of kitch.

Etymology: Moira ( Fate in Greek and Roman mythology, any of three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person's life and his allotment of misery and suffering) + ironic

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COMMENTS:

great story - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-07: 12:33:00

That is a brilliant story, but I'm afraid I can't vote for this, because you used the word "ironic" incorrectly (thank you Alanis Morisette). - Pseudonym, 2007-09-08: 05:08:00

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Created by: graypenguin

Pronunciation: re-al-i-trick

Sentence: He was up all night writing that paper only to realize that his printer was out of ink. One of life's cruel little realitricks...

Etymology: reality + trick

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: karma/toe/st

Sentence: It was all over - she looked at the butter melting onto the floor and realized she was karmatoast

Etymology: karma (fate) + comatose (stupefied) + toast (done)

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Created by: doctathunder

Pronunciation: FUN-ki-ny

Sentence: We drove a hundred miles before we found that the ultimate funkiny had occured; the amusement park had shut down due to a massive termite infestation

Etymology: funk + destiny

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