Verboticisms

Created by: grasshopper

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Created by: YourEnglishPal

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Etymology: PSEUD-False PAED-Child

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Created by: Scattercat

Pronunciation: KROH-noh-man-see

Sentence: A bit of skillful chronomancy, and little Bobby was Robert, old enough to buy cigs for his classmates.

Etymology: Chronos, from the Greek, meaning time, and the -mancy ending, which is generally associated with magic or wizardry.

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Brilliant. - ErWenn, 2007-05-30: 03:41:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mend ayj us

Sentence: Grandma Gilda had always been a mendageous type of person. Her true age was never known...she'd been twentynining it for as long as we could recall. Although offered senior's discounts at shops, she was indignant that people would think she was really that old. She took care of herself and acted young, but let's be honest, Mother Nature and Father Time exact their toll on us all. And it did not help that she told us stories of the War and the Great Depression. When Gilda turned 75, we had a big party for her in a local licensed restaurant. Her best gift by far was having the waiter card her...unbeknownst to her that we'd paid him twenty bucks to make a fuss of requiring proof of age. She was thrilled!

Etymology: Mendacious (tells fibs; given to lying;intentionally untrue) & Age (how long something has existed;begin to seem older; get older)

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

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Created by: renzeb

Pronunciation: Wah-pij

Sentence: Sandy's whoppage fooled the bouncer into letting her into the club.

Etymology: Whopper+age

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Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: Eggs adj yur age

Sentence: Her exaggeraging had finally caught up with her; the hive-mind spoke, and it was her time to be "liberated." Nobody that age should be allowed to wear baby-t's.

Etymology: Exaggerate + age. Maybe exagg' 'er age.

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: mis-STEYJ-muhnt

Sentence: Carol's reply was an obvious misstagement, but Officer Dan opted to let it slide.

Etymology: misstatement + age

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: uh-je-LAS-tik

Sentence: Although,for Bob, it was no laughing matter, Roxie was truly agelastic: a "1661" one week; a fibteen the next.

Etymology: blend of AGE & ELASTIC: Capable of adapting to change or a variety of circumstances; flexible, accomodating GELASTIC: SOED: laughable (rare); (agelastic: "unlaughable," not funny)sometimes found in books containing words the dictionary forgot.

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although I usually try to avoid words already found in various dictionaries, i decided,today,not to follow my usual practice. "Agelastic" 73% original according to google. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-23: 07:04:00

it is a good word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-23: 12:07:00

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Created by: 718114

Pronunciation: ME-SO-PER-JUR-Y

Sentence: The teenager committed mesoperjury in order to illegally buy beer.

Etymology: Meso: Age Perjury: dishonesty

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