Verboticisms

Created by: pandalhu

Pronunciation: Age/ta/tion

Sentence: I hate when kids use an agetation to buy drinks

Etymology: age form how many years old you are and tation from exaggeration

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Created by: arandomperson97

Pronunciation: Sub-age

Sentence: The woman was acting very subaged, in order to appear young.

Etymology: sub- under age -age

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Created by: Filthy

Pronunciation: ə-ˈprō-prē-'āj

Sentence: Shirley took umbrage at the bartender's accusation of appropriage.

Etymology: Appropriage= appropriate (to take or make use of without authority or right AND/OR especially suitable or compatible) + age (an individual's development measured in years). Often mistakenly affixed with the prefix 'in-', the word 'appropriage' makes use of two distinct meanings of its first root word ('appropriate'). Specifically, the person committing the offense of appropriage is appropriating the rights and privileges afforded to someone of a different age; they are thus also pretending that their behavior is age-appropriate. The term has its origins in law enforcement slang. It was used to refer to an attempt at entry into adult establishments while under the legal age for entry, or into high school events by someone exceeding the socially appropriate age-range. The term only extended into the vernacular after suburbanite parents started to apply the law enforcement slang to refer to adults lying about their age for reasons of vanity. Purists insist on applying the original slang meanings, but lying about one's age for any reason has come to be an acceptable use of 'appropriage'.

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: fib/aj

Sentence: Bea and her friends got together once a week to play fibbage. The local bars caught on easily but played along as they always left by suppertime

Etymology: fib + age + cribbage

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mis/age/er/ee

Sentence: Misagery is a common practice among first year college and university students using fake I.D.'s to gain access to bars near the campus.

Etymology: MISAGERY - noun - from MIS (wrong; amiss) + AGE (a period measured by years from birth) + FORGERY (something counterfeit, or fraudulent)

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: age-jest

Sentence: She was sure that confidence was the only important element when trying to agejest your way into a club. Too bad she looked nothing like her fake id photo.

Etymology: Age + Jest (to do something meant to be funny), also a pun on ageist - to discriminate based on chronological age

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COMMENTS:

nice - suzanne, 2007-05-29: 08:03:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-29: 12:21:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: eldərfib

Sentence: Hanna and her friends at the retirement home are all too happy to spread false rumors about their respective ages. Hanna’s elderfib would make her ineligible to live at the home.

Etymology: elder (of a greater age) fib (a lie, typically an unimportant one)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: turrn emm it

Sentence: he was sure that his new girdle would help him turnemit at the discoteche, but the cute ones still offered him a seat when he arrived.

Etymology: turn, time backwards (emit)

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COMMENTS:

I like your thinking on this one - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-29: 12:19:00

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Created by: colapop

Pronunciation: FA-bri-gage

Sentence: Edna tried hard to fabrigage her way into the trendy nightclub, but Bruno wouldn't allow it.

Etymology: A combination of 'fabricate' (to make up for the purpose of deception) and 'age'. This includes a word-play on the word 'engage' [To engage in the fabrication of ones age].

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COMMENTS:

catchy - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-23: 12:11:00

Love it! :) - lumina, 2008-07-23: 22:51:00

Good one. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-25: 17:52:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: men dayj shus

Sentence: When it came to seeking the Fountain of Youth, our Granny could be very mandagecious. She would even pay service workers in bars, restaurants and liquor stores to card her...they loved the extra money and she loved everyone thinking she was under age!

Etymology: Mendacious (intentionally lying;given to untruths) & Age (how long someone or something has existed)

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