Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: people-chase

Sentence: Leanna had faced a number of hurdles along the way. Her computer had crashed when she added the Friendster ap and 6 of her ex-friends from school had blocked her friend requests. But she now had a grand total of 630 'friends' in her social network and felt that her peeplechase had been a huge success.

Etymology: steeplechase (a foot race run on a cross-country course or over a course having obstacles, as ditches, hurdles, or the like, which the runners must clear) + peeps (as in people)

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I keep imagining little marshmallow chicks jumping over wicker hurdles when I see this word. - MrDave2176, 2007-10-01: 13:29:00

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Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: dedd-end-frend

Sentence: Is it socially acceptable to block a deadendfriend on every social network I have an account with?

Etymology: Dead end, (no opportunity for advancement) + friend.

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: gahn-AIR-uh-kwest

Sentence: Dorian began his GONERAQUEST one gray evening when he got spammed by Classmates.com...first he had to ressurectify their names from the dim recesses of his faulty membanks. Using Anywho and Google, he reanimated the memories of his troubled youth and e-mailed the lot. All the yammering yokels of yesteryear were at the reunion, including his old crush, Peggy- whose orange hair erupted like a lava flow from a long-dormant volcano. Quickly quaffing quantities of questionable punch, a dismayed Dorian deduced that his GONERAQUEST had gone awfully awry. It all came rushing back to him like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist. He never really liked these people in high school, and the years had not been kind to them as they ripened into paunchy portraits of their former selves. Dorian schlumped home and took a fatal dose of repentathol - never to GONERAQUEST again.

Etymology: GONe+ERA+QUEST=GONERAQUEST.....GONE:possessed with a strong attachment or a foolish or unreasoning love or desire-from past participle of go.....ERA:fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned; a memorable or important date or event; especially : a period in the history of a person-Late Latin aera, from Latin, counters.....QUEST:an act or instance of seeking; a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey and an alcohol-drenched pseudofestival -Middle English, from Anglo-French queste.

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COMMENTS:

See ancient webites archived at: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php -it's a blast from the past. - metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:47:00

You can go Verbotomize back to 2006...but don't forget the "forward slash". - metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:55:00

Gone but not forgotten...that's our quest! - Nosila, 2008-09-02: 01:54:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: re fren emee

Sentence: When Janet met Brad again at the reunion, she realized he had become a refrenemy. He not only hated her hair and her dress style, (She was sure the invitations stated retro 80's look, so as people could recognize each other) but he also was still an older but more judgmental geek. It was when she caught him making out with Sue (she of the Just Sue Me! fame) that she realized he was just "Desparately Seeking Susan" and not really into the fact that she was Madonna's personal assistant! Loser!

Etymology: Re-friend (a person with whom you are re-acquainted) & Enemy (a hostile individual, not in your support group)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: re-YUNE-yin-sult

Sentence: Germond loved to go back to his hometown each year to meet up with old classmates, and he'd invariably seek out his former detractors to hammer them with reunionsults and to boast about the great success he'd achieved in his life.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'reunion' and 'insult'.

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: pan/a/see/ya

Sentence: Panaseeya is a common occurence in a middle age crisis.

Etymology: pan (as in Peter)+ see ya + panacea

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: my-face-frend

Sentence: It was a sad day when Greg Arious realised that he'd gone way too far online networking. He had 656 contacts, most of whom were myfacefriends. It was time unfriend them.

Etymology: Myspace & Facebook social networking sites where people collect "friends" and renew acquaintances with folks they haven't seen or heard for years.

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How does one unfriend them?? - Nosila, 2010-01-29: 10:39:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ah-kwaint-hunts

Sentence: the arrival of Google, Myspace and Facebook have made acquainthunts easier than ever.

Etymology: acquaintence, hunt

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Clever! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-01: 09:29:00

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Created by: kerryb

Pronunciation: peer-gur-ji-teyt

Sentence: I found it strange that I had wanted to peergurgitate with so many facebook members.

Etymology: peer-a familiar person or colleague regurgitate-to revisit and expel something that is unwanted.

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Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: mem-uh-ree-leyn

Sentence: Ken caught the memorylame bug. He was feeling insecure and imagined all of the people from his past were more succesful than him. He soon found that he was doing being better than most, being retired at forty.

Etymology: memory lane + lame

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-01: 18:24:00

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