Verboticism: Crapitulate

DEFINITION: n. Something, or someone, that/who always seems to break or fall apart, just when you need it/them the most. v. To fall apart just when you need to get it together.
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Reliabull
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ree-lie-ah-bull
Sentence: "Sure, I'll be there for you whenever you need me, anytime, anyplace I promise." At that, she stealthily slipped out the door. He knew at this moment he was being fed a hefty dose of reliabull.
Etymology: reliable (trustworthy, dependable) + bull (as in bullcrap, lies, nonsense)
Iphoneular
Created by: BeauKnows
Pronunciation: I-Phone-U-Lar
Sentence:
Etymology: Iphone + Failure
Crapitulate
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: crap IT you late
Sentence: It was the last straw. Jenny did not care if it was Dennis or his phone that was crapitulating this time, but she was going to emancimate him. He was a Broke Down Engine, and ain't got no drivin' wheel!
Etymology: Crap: somewhat vulgar universal noun used to refer to something that's substandard (this crap phone has crapped out again!). Capitulate: To give up or in, usually at an inopportune moment. Emancimate: see Monday's verbotomy.
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COMMENTS:
You crap it late if on short notice too! - dochanne, 2009-05-07: 03:44:00
Many of the words today are creative, but very few stick to the definition. Yours does, and it also works with the cartoon AND the Dylan theme! You've got my vote! - hyperborean, 2009-05-07: 23:30:00
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Voilater
Created by: ankur
Pronunciation: voi-later
Sentence: he again proved to be a voilater by not turning up to take his friend for his(friend's) appointment with the dentist. my cellphone is doing a "voilater" again, i have to make a call and i cant find it...
Etymology: voila = word used by magicians when they make something disappear.. so... voilater = who / which disappears..
Mismefunktion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mis me funk shun
Sentence: Every time her family had a get together, Velma's husband, Harry, would mismefunktion and she'd end up going alone. One time it was migraines, another he'd have to work late or another time his gout was too bad. It really came down to 2 things...he did not like her family and he had a mistress who had a wide screen tv.
Etymology: Misfunction (fail to function or function improperly); Function (a social event)& Me (Myself) & Funk (a state of nervous depression)
Phondrome
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: fon-drowm
Sentence: He would be there for her at all times, except when she really needed him to. He kept phondroming her. He was a real phondromist.
Etymology: Phone (telephone) + syndrome (disease), shortened from idea "broken phone syndrome".
Quitessential
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kwit-uh-sen-shuhl
Sentence: Marsha assumed that the owner's manual had a typo when it described her new computer as quitessential. Not so. All too often, when she was at a crucial juncture in a tabulation, it would just quit. She wouldn't even get the dreaded blue screen, just a few Chinese-looking Kanji characters and a shutdown. When she had the characters translated, they said "I have a headache, goodnight". So much for buying a cheap PC from the back of a van.
Etymology: quit (of the pure and essential essence of something) + essential (absolutely necessary; indispensable)
Vacellate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: va sel layt
Sentence: Mona's phone was often on the fritz. It never happened when robocall election polls came through, heavy breathers or debt consolidation recordings happened. It would only vacellate when Mona needed it for emergencies, work calls, making important appointments or talking to cute guys on the 1-900 numbers.
Etymology: Vacillate (to be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action)& Cell (Cellular telephone)
Fethrend
Created by: tigress
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My fethrend dentist has an appointment available whenever I don't need him.
Etymology: fair weather friend
