Verboticisms

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: mag-nuh-bun-CO-gentle-APSE-ih-muss (magnabuncogentleapsimist)

Sentence: Everyone thought the churlish knave deserved the attentions of the Spanish Inquisition, but the guy in charge was far too MAGNABUNCOGENTLEAPSIMOUS to agree. Better to let history decide when all the VOTES ARE IN. After all, it's not like he MADOFF with everyone's money and lounges around chuckling in a COMFY CHAIR whilst gazing down from his multi-million dollar aerie.

Etymology: MAGNAnimous+ BUNco +COGEnt +geNTLE +lAPSE +magnamIMOUS= MAGNABUNCOGENTLEAPSIMOUS MAGNANIMOUS:showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind;Latin magnanimus, from magnus great + animus spirit.....BUNCO:a swindling game or scheme,anything patently false;perhaps alteration of Spanish banca bench, banking, bank in gambling, from Italian.....COGENT:appealing forcibly to the mind or reason,having power to compel or constrain;Latin cogent-, cogens, present participle of cogere to drive together, collect, from co- + agere to drive.....GENTLE:tractable , docile,free from harshness, sternness, or violence,chivalrous,honorable, distinguished,suited to a person of high social station;Middle English gentil, from Anglo-French, from Latin gentilis of a gens, of one's family, from gent-gens, nation; akin to Latin gignere to beget,..... LAPSE:a slight error typically due to forgetfulness or inattention,a temporary deviation or fall especially from a higher to a lower state;Latin lapsus, from labi to slip.....IMOUS: a little-known peripheral device developed by Apple whose production was suddenly termina... strike that last one from the record.

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COMMENTS:

Sorry- no "leap" involved...unless it's voluntarily onto the pavement below. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-22: 06:04:00

Interesting word, m, although way too short! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:11:00

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Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: Sha-gr-ette

Sentence: When asked about the former President's news conference, President Obama conveniently chagretted the incident.

Etymology: Mixture of "chagrin" - disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment or failure; and "forget" - to lose the remembrance of.

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Created by: otherguy

Pronunciation: hoōdat

Sentence: When John took over from the dolt who used to do his job he developed a whodat attitude, acting as if he didn't even know what had been done in the past or the people who had done it.

Etymology: Who: what or which person or people + that: used to identify a specific person or thing observed by the speaker (a play on Who's that? a question you might ask if you are trying to forget someone)

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COMMENTS:

Simple. To the point. I like it. - artr, 2009-01-22: 06:44:00

nice - galwaywegian, 2009-01-22: 14:31:00

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Created by: youngin105

Pronunciation:

Sentence: When someone has been caught pretending to have forgotten an embarrassing event: 'God, what a shiftyeyenesiac!'

Etymology: Shifty-eye: motion associated with guilt and/or embarrassment + nesia: the latter part of 'amnesia'.

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Sham-bush

Sentence: Asked what it felt like to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor the new president cleverly avoided the question by faking a shambush and pretending he didn't know who the interviewer was talking about.

Etymology: Sham(fake) + Bush(Surname of the previous president of the USA)

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COMMENTS:

Cleverly crafted sentence! Avoiding the press's ambush with shambush! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 11:04:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-22: 12:38:00

Oh, my...wish I'd seen this before I used up all my votes! Love it. - readerwriter, 2009-01-22: 16:20:00

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: e LEKT am NEE zha

Sentence: The leader was told that if he was asked any questions that might embarrass him to just use his electamnesia strategy.

Etymology: SELECT: choose ELECT: choose or to select by vote AMNESIA: to forget

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COMMENTS:

Got my vote...but I can't remember. - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:20:00

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Created by: Nuwanda

Pronunciation: o-lib-er-ate

Sentence: Rather than obliterating his vanquished foe, the commander-in-chief demonstrated his ultimate coolness by oliberating him instead. With the whole world watching, he took the high road, though he had to clear a lot of brush off it because it had been untraveled for so long. If only he knew someone who was good at clearing brush. Oh yeah, not going to go there.

Etymology: A twist on the word obliterate, to incorporate liberate and to pay tribute to the O of the mOment.

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COMMENTS:

Well-crafted endings ... of both sentence and etymology! Oliberate is such a highly hopeful word. Obama has inferred comparisons to Lincoln, MLK, Kenedy and so many others, so I also thought it very clever that this brings to mind The Great Liberator, Simon Bolivar. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 01:36:00

Good word and interesting sentence, good wordplay! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:14:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: wash - ing - gone

Sentence: When in Washington, it is often to your advantage to play Washingone when you are asked too many questions about which you are unsure of the "best" answers to; especially when you are asked by media representatives who will broadcast your responses to be seen by millions of viewers.

Etymology: Wash + Washing + Washington + Gone --- Wash(ing) (the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water;Taking a buffer and running it through a filter of some sort. The result will (more often than not) be cleaner and more pleasing than the original) - Washington (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia) - Gone (destroyed or killed)

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COMMENTS:

Sometimes those in DC also inspires Wishingone! Capital create! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:52:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Bluhn-der-HUHSH

Sentence: Even though the weather forecaster warned of a hot day ahead, we looked forward to our afaring to town. The train came along on time. But where would we sit? Not a seat to be found. Another stop; a further folk-throng squeeze themselves somehow through the doors into this airless "coffin". One stop from "heaven", a few sweaty, weary wayfarers alight, but still my 102 year old grandmother is standing. We arrive at where we want to be. As we stumble blindly from the train, the Minister of Transport, "undergoing the hardships" of daily travel, chirms from the platform," Did you all have a good trip." His thoughtless hooting is met with blunderhush; until gran's voice breaks the wordless still: " Better you give up your day job and go into selling saunas."

Etymology: Blunder : To bungle, botch act stupid & Hush: silence or quitness; to suppress mention of.

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COMMENTS:

tERRORific. Great granny! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:49:00

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Created by: milorush

Pronunciation: (v.) dĭs-mĭs'rĭ-měm'bər

Sentence: Geoffrey's wife reveled in reminding him of of his drunken debauchery at her brother's wedding reception. It wasn't that he dismisremembered the event -- it was just that the entire night was a tequila-induced fog.

Etymology: mismis[s] + [mis]remember

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