Verboticisms

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: PER-sun-uh-lyrt

Sentence: Madge felt compelled to provide all her friends with a highly detailed personalert whenever they got together causing some of them to go to great lengths to simply avoid her.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'personal' and 'alert'

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: moh noh toh logg

Sentence: Her monotolog was rudely interrupted by the sound of obvious snoring before she had even got as far as describing her lunch appointment.

Etymology: monolog monotony

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COMMENTS:

another funny one - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 13:58:00

GREAT! Simple, funny and concise. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:49:00

Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-18: 06:45:00

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: sad/naws/ee/am

Sentence: Oliver's irritating habit of collecting all of his toe nail clippings and then displaying photographs of them on his blog was equalled only by his sadnauseam descriptions of when each one was cut.

Etymology: sad (no really... very sad!) + ad nauseam (to a sickening degree)

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COMMENTS:

It's "ad nauseam", just so you know. But good one nonetheless. :) - PythianHabenero, 2007-04-11: 08:36:00

Thanks Pyth', I will edit. I was in a bit of a rush this morning, had to catch a bus at 9.48 and couldn't find enough change... ooops going on sadnauseam again... - pinwheel, 2007-04-11: 10:27:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: twit-er-twit

Sentence: Marsha loves Twitter. She will tell her followers about every detail of her life. Yesterday she proved how much of a twittertwit she is when she tweeted "I'm tweeting right now".

Etymology: twitter (Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service) + twit (an insignificant, silly, or bothersome person)

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: blaaaahg

Sentence: Stephanie published the smallest details on blog which, in time, became a blahg for its level of minute and pointless detail.

Etymology: blah + blog

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COMMENTS:

Blabulous word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-11: 04:50:00

a blahst! - galwaywegian, 2007-04-11: 06:12:00

This one works best when you pointedly drag out the 'blah' part. "Blaaaaahg". - LonePaladin, 2007-04-12: 23:56:00

Great idea LonePaladin! - jedijawa, 2007-04-20: 17:10:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: trayht-ig-zist-OI-uh

Sentence: Bob's tritexistoia was so ridiculously out of control that he spent the greater part of his waking hours telling,in the most minutissimic details, anyone who would listen to him of his plans to produce computerised models of the 555 sewing needles in his collection.

Etymology: TRITE. adj:lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale; banal; commonplace ideas. I.T: initialism for Informational Technology. EXIST: vb.:to have an existence, be extant; be alive, -nOIA suffix. In mild form "-oia" may consist in the "strange behaviour" exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks."

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COMMENTS:

sounds like a legitimate ailment - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 13:58:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: tek - nal - edj - mee

Sentence: Lillian was great with techknowledgme. Using all of the tools at her disposal; her phone, laptop, voicemail, video game system, she made sure that everyone knew where she was and what she was doing at all times.

Etymology: technology, knowledge, me

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COMMENTS:

good word - Nosila, 2009-10-29: 00:37:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: twētərdəm

Sentence: Her user name is Tweet16. Whether on Twitter, her blog, her MyFace or SpaceBook account, she inundates the blathersphere with the mynutia of her life. She is the voice of tweeterdum. Does she have anything interesting to say? She could bore the stink off a skunk.

Etymology: Tweeter (A micro-blog post on the Twitter social network site, or the act of posting on it) + dumb (stupid) A play off of Tweedledum, one of the twins in Lewis Carroll\'s Through the Looking Glass.

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: TEK-no-blab

Sentence: The woman in front of me at the curry stand was so busy technoblabbing about buying curry that I finally had to tell her to hang up and pay the man. "Some guy just told me to hang up and pay", she continued, oblivious.

Etymology: techno (logy) + blab (run off at the mouth)

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: web + bore

Sentence: I don't read his blog, it's just a webbore about what happened to him every single day.

Etymology: Guess!

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