Verboticisms

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: chEEr-ful-of-it

Sentence: Jill is cheerfullofit, telling David that no one noticed him in the fancy restaurant, as he walked around with the store tags still hanging from his pants and shirt.

Etymology: cheerfulness, to comfort/full of it, slang for telling lies or full of sh**

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COMMENTS:

hahah reserve this for Bring it on 2... but clever i like it - ekath, 2007-04-16: 18:50:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: pass-i-fib

Sentence: Mommy quickly crafted a pacifib when Nora noticed that Goldie was not in her bowl one day after school. She put the little princess on her lap, gave her a hug, and told her a wonderful tale about how Goldie was invited to go with her fish friends to the Wild Water Kingdom instead of admitting that it went belly up and was flushed down the toilet. Nora, an especially precocious five year old wasn't buying it. She became inconsolable and made Mommy take her to the pet store immediately for a new fish.

Etymology: pacify: to calm, mollify or make peaceful + fib: insignificant or childish lie

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COMMENTS:

Cute word! - artr, 2009-11-02: 11:27:00

great word! - mweinmann, 2009-11-03: 07:51:00

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Created by: americanogig

Pronunciation: Light-wry.

Sentence: She asked me if the dress that was two sizes too small made her look fat. Considering my options, I figured it was time for a lightwry.

Etymology: A combination of the words light and wry, a variation on white lie.

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Created by: emmyb2

Pronunciation: sal-vo-mint

Sentence: I'm not feeling bad about that lie; it was just a small salvoment, meant to ease my mother's pain.

Etymology: salv-save ment-lie

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: inn ah kurt

Sentence: the statement was inakurt but onne understood the gut feeling

Etymology: inaccurate, Kurt

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: pla/see/bull

Sentence: 'Hard work always pays off' - a placeebull to keep workers motivated

Etymology: placebo + bull (as in bullshit) (had to put the second e in my word to emphasize sound)

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COMMENTS:

okayee - galwaywegian, 2007-04-16: 06:30:00

Ain't it the truth!?! - Sed8ed, 2007-04-16: 06:33:00

That example sounds like an alfalsism. Or a generaLIEzation. - petaj, 2007-04-16: 06:37:00

That's a great play on words! - jedijawa, 2007-04-16: 12:56:00

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Created by: reverb

Pronunciation: troos

Sentence: Some people thought CEO was stealing money from the shareholders, but troose was that he was just borrowing it.

Etymology: loose truth

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COMMENTS:

seems to fit - reverb, 2008-07-12: 15:40:00

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Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: fo-ma

Sentence: Nothing in this book is true. "Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy." The Books of Bokonon. I: 5

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut for Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: dall-i-ing-lama

Sentence: You might think His Holiness would never tell an untruth, but when it comes to sparing someone's feelings, he becomes the DalyingLama.

Etymology: Dalai Lama (Buddhist leader) + lying (not telling the truth)

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Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: Free will

Sentence: "You were sick and now you're well again," shouted Trout, a freewill message that started Trout's creed.

Etymology: For Vonnegut (circa Timequake)... had to do it... I'm writing my thesis on him.

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