The create-a-word game
Verbotomist's Delight
This is a Darwinian greenhouse. To see the top verboticisms for each definition, visit the archives on the Verbotomy Blog.
DEFINITION: To have a job where you get paid for thinking, daydreaming, or just sitting around wasting time and trying to look busy.
DEFINITION: v.To be so obsessed with your own cleverness and wittiness that you don't listen to what anyone else is saying, let alone understand them. v. A person who is obsessed with their own wittiness.
DEFINITION: n. A person who is totally consumed by what they eat. v. To be so focused on your food that it eats away at your soul.
DEFINITION: To leave food on your plate, not for the starving children in the world, but so you don't get fat.
DEFINITION: n. A person who pretends to be green because they think global warming is hot. v. To name-drop green status symbols in a shallow attempt to attract comely green people.
DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.
DEFINITION: v. The moment when a child realizes that they are turning into their mother, or father, or both! n. To suddenly realize that you are turning into your parents.
DEFINITION: The smug feeling of superiority that runners get when they pass cars trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
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