Verboticisms

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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: de/fak/choo/al/ize

Sentence: All politicans, from the lowliest elected, to the President of the United States, must be able to defactualize certain happenings in order to be diplomatic and appear inclusive, accepting and tolerant of all people and situations.

Etymology: DEFACTUALIZE - verb - from DE (added to form verbs applying removal, or reversal) + FACT (something that actually happened, or exists) + ACTUALIZE (actual; to realize in action)

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COMMENTS:

Superb sentence and word! Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was some way to deactivate those who defactualize? - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 11:01:00

Great word...like when we unhire someone at work, we decruit them! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:16:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: rek oll ek tshump

Sentence: He went from election to recollectchump in mid oath.

Etymology: recollection, chump

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COMMENTS:

Well-said. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:54:00

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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: GlobalGallery

Pronunciation: Fayn-got-ten

Sentence: "Are you fit to hold a drivers licence? How many other accidents have you caused?", asked the curious reporter from the Channel 6 News Team. "None!" barked the heiress, wobbly on her feet. Clearly she'd feigngotten about the two other luxury sedans she had written off earlier that December.

Etymology: 1.Feign - to pretend. 2.Forgotten - unable to be recalled.

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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: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: pree/tend/sh/huh/sh

Sentence: Sally was so pretendshuhsh that she would never acknowledge recognizing the employee at the liquor store who routinely pushed her heavily laden cart around the store.

Etymology: pretend + huh? + shush + hush + pretentious

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COMMENTS:

Great combo. Great word. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:55:00

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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: 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: 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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