Verboticisms

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Nosila

Pronunciation: dub ba yewd

Sentence: When asked by Katie Couric, what was his most emBaracksing moments leading up to winning the election, Obama said it was admitting that he followed GWB into the White House. When asked why he would find that emBaracksing, Obama said he lacked the knack of making up his own words and their meanings and that he had virtually no experience invading foreign countries and making them hate his fellow Americans! He felt like a school janitor. That meant he dubbayude mopping up the verbal diarrhea and intellectual constipation he found himself surrounded by and cleaned up for the next time. You see, he was just Biden his time up until now!

Etymology: dubba (George W. Bush's nickname, one of the kinder ones; also means double) & You'd (you would, too!)

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COMMENTS:

luv the way you play with words and ideas! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 01:06:00

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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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