Verboticisms

Created by: dochanne

Pronunciation: Dis com bob you lage

Sentence: When Helen opened the door she was pleasantly surprised to find her friends waiting with a cake, until her eye caught the smirk on Jame's face and her joy turned to discombobulage: was that a "40" candle?

Etymology: Discombobulate: to upset, fluster or distress Age: how many trips around the sun one has lived through

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COMMENTS:

Don't I know you from somewhere ? - emdeejay, 2008-12-01: 02:55:00

That sounds like a pick-up line :) - dochanne, 2008-12-04: 13:06:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: KRIM-si-NES-uht

Sentence: When celebrating a surprize birthday party with her twin brother, Roxie's friends found out that they were not identical: he was forty-five and she was only thirty-one! Despite her candleblush, crimsenescence and muttonrouge, she quickly explained to all and sundry, "I never forgotten my age - once I decided what it was to be!"

Etymology: CRIMSENESCENCE: Blend of CRIMSON: reddened, red-faced, flushed & SENESCENCE: growing; old,aging. CANDLE: (the number of) as a symbol of age on a birthday cake & BLUSH: To become red in the face through embarassment. MUTTONROUGE: as in "mutton done up as lamb;" Rouge: as in red for embarrasment. Also a play on, or antonym of, the "Moulin Rouge."

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Created by: boviex

Pronunciation: embrej alt. embrAge

Sentence: She was embraged when she discovered that her age was no secret. When she saw the number of candles on the cake, her heart filled with embrage.

Etymology: Take your pick. Embarass(ment)/Age/Umbrage/(En)rage

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: age/jur/ee

Sentence: She committed agejury several times during her birthday party subtracting ten years from her real age.

Etymology: AGEJURY - noun - from AGE + PERJURY (The practice of lying; falsehood, untruthfulness)

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COMMENTS:

Guilty as charged! - Nosila, 2008-11-28: 21:47:00

I want to see my plastic surgeon! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-29: 14:42:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: hue-mil-ee-AYJ-skam

Sentence: Naomi experienced a major attack of humiliagescam when she realized toward the end of the evening that most of the folks at the party knew she had taken ten years off her age in an earlier discussion.

Etymology: blend of 'humiliate' (to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes : mortify) 'age' and 'scam' (a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: an teek nay tahl

Sentence: her antiquenatal class began badky when she went to the nightclub only to be served drinks by her grandson

Etymology: anti natal, antique

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COMMENTS:

Did he serve her an old fashioned? Good Word. - Nosila, 2010-04-23: 13:46:00

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: age/gast

Sentence: Since she was an agenostic and didn't belive in chronological age, she was ageghast when she was outed as being an octogenarian.

Etymology: age + aghast

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COMMENTS:

Love agenostic! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 18:14:00

Great words! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 19:39:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Fib - ro - mi - AJ - ya

Sentence: Eloise felt the reddening of her face as a wave of fibromyagea swept over her when she realized she'd been caught exaggerating her youth.

Etymology: Fib + my age (a play words on the malady fibromyalgia)

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COMMENTS:

A painful realization, apparently. Interesting blend. - Tigger, 2008-02-05: 02:56:00

good one! - galwaywegian, 2008-02-05: 07:20:00

nice blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 15:49:00

nice blend but its to hard to pronounce - purpleman, 2008-02-05: 16:54:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fibij

Sentence: It was common in the college town he grew up in for high schoolers to try to pass themselves off as college students. Wendell was never very successful at it. Maybe it was the way his voice cracked every time he got excited or the complete lack of facial or body hair. Perhaps it was that someone had seen his mother drop him off. Whatever the case, his fibbage would always be revealed. To make matters worse, girls would often not believe he was even in high school.

Etymology: fib (a lie, typically an unimportant one) + age (the length of time that a person has lived)

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Created by: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Tem-pust-a-fook-e-tum

Sentence: Annie had a total tempestafucitum over finding out that her true age had been found out and that her attempts to diguise the effects of time had failed.

Etymology: Tempest :(orig Latin. Tempus) - a storm related to time. A : (French. ) to. Fucitum : (Latin.) - to be caught or ensnared. See Also: Chronolonakitum (Orig. Greek)

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COMMENTS:

I like this one. Reminds me of "tempus fugit" - ErWenn, 2008-02-05: 10:11:00

Far out! Kudos for originality! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 18:21:00

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