Verboticisms

Created by: YourEnglishPal

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Etymology: PSEUD-False PAED-Child

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: mal mat ture a shun

Sentence: At the meeting of the red hat society she committed malmaturation by saying she was 55 when everyone knew she was at least 70.

Etymology: mal - bad mature - aging tion - makes it a noun

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Created by: fieldman

Pronunciation: D-O-B-ception

Sentence: I think I have been the victim of D-O-B-ception.

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Created by: JoshB

Pronunciation: lee-oh-age

Sentence: Mary's fake id was lioaged.

Etymology: Li=lie-tell an untruth age-long but indefinite period in human history.

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: PREE-VARI-CRONE-OH- SPIN

Sentence: When dreary old rat faced Pat was pulled over by the Paramus police, she fumbled for her poorly-doctored driver's license and tried to turn on her nonexistant charm. Although she was older than hair, losing her eyesight and driving at the speed of a glacier, she tried to use PREVARICHRONOSPIN to convince the officer that she was NOT enfeebled by her many bitter years of ineffectual lies, duplicity and hands-on cellphone driving...................... "Lady, don't try to PREVARICHRONOSPIN your way out of this !" said the irate trafficop............... "You're a disgrace as a forger, and a pain to meet on the streets of this basically clean town."

Etymology: PREVARicate: to lie+................... CHRONOs: the personification of time+.. SPIN: to create an illusion for the porpoises of image enhancement.(whew)

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COMMENTS:

http://www.alltooflat.com/ - metrohumanx, 2008-07-23: 00:36:00

It's taught me to RESPECT the Romans! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-23: 00:37:00

great paragraph - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-23: 12:10:00

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Created by: EvelynS

Pronunciation: mis-ger-ohnt

Sentence: When my bones ache I am reminded how much of a misgeronte I am.

Etymology: mis- hatred of; geront- old age

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: old - bagg

Sentence: Beatrice oldbagged her way through life until her friend Kay told her that she wasn't fooling anybody.

Etymology: old (advanced in years) bag (reference to the inevitable saggy bagginess of the loss of youth)

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Created by: smstone0413

Pronunciation: Coom-dah-ckt

Sentence: The Old lady was cumbducting by claiming she was 21 when she was really 79

Etymology: Cumb- To lie Duct- To lead

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: uh-PEER-en-hanse

Sentence: Sylvia truly believed that she could convincingly appearenhance her true age with subtle little untruths intended to take five years off her true age.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'appearance' (n. the state, condition, manner, or style in which a person or object appears; outward look or aspect) and 'enhance' (vb. improve; augment)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: lye den tit eeee kard

Sentence: Being eaten by short sighted cannibals was not the most wonderful of ends, but she did have the posthumous last laugh when the chief choked on a barticularly tough piece of her liver, having trusted the date on her liedentity card.

Etymology: identity card, lie

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COMMENTS:

well aged...good one! - Nosila, 2009-12-10: 14:53:00

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