Verboticisms

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: Baht-tul -sap

Sentence: Don't you feel sorry for the water bottle bearers and their constant need to be suckers? Poor bottlesaps!

Etymology: Play on bottle caps. Bottle: container for water. Sap: slang term for a sucker. Zap: hit by a need. (In the book of bent grammar, could sap be the past tense of sip?)

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I believe some people have collections of bottlesaps - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 13:31:00

I like the comment about 'sap' being the past tense of 'sip' (like sit and sat)... I know, I'm such a dictionerd. - Tigger, 2008-02-21: 23:15:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: jok-kwah

Sentence: After reading The Water Cure, Milton evolved into a jockqua, toting his trusty water bottle everywhere, believing it would some day cure him of his innate nerdiness and male pattern baldness.

Etymology: jockey, aqua

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I hope he didn't carry it around in his jockqua strap - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 09:38:00

Oh you really jocked it to me! Sentence + verbot = uproarious laughter! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:15:00

This word is a whole lot of fun to say! I want to go to a city park with lots of joggers and go 'jockqua' spotting. Really fun word, purpleartichokes! - Tigger, 2008-02-21: 23:08:00

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Created by: pipitblog

Pronunciation: /sa-kee/

Sentence: The dead victim had been sucking a water bottle when the investigators arrived on the scene. They also couldn't quite miss the numerous water bottles on the kitchen sink and the boxes of mineral water stacked on one side of the kitchen wall. They believe the man was a suckee. However, two sets of fingerprints were lifted off from the bottles. One belonged to the victim and the other to an unknown person.

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He definitely looks like a suckee - bookowl, 2008-02-21: 11:00:00

Stirs the imagination! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:22:00

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Created by: trueblue147

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Mis-spelt the word. Should be hydroplonk. Hydro - water powered. plonk - to be a plonker. Worried that he would dry out completely the hydroplonker persistently pursed for hydro power. - trueblue147, 2008-02-21: 19:43:00

Is hydroplonk related to hydroplonic? Good one! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 20:39:00

You might like to know there's an 'edit' button at the bottom before 'comments and points' ... and early on there's a 'change spelling' button too. Hope this helps you. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 20:42:00

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Created by: craigfu

Pronunciation: hahy-dro-kon-dree-ak

Sentence: We kept having to stop during our road trip, because Kristen was such a hydrochondriac.

Etymology: hydro- [Origin: < Gk, comb. form of hýdōr water] + hypochondriac [a person who worries or talks excessively about his or her health]

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Created by: browe07

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Created by: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Ak-wa-holl-ik

Sentence: After refusing to leave his bottle of water behind during the tour of the food factory, John's companions labeled him an aquaholic

Etymology: Aqua - Water / Holic - Addict

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COMMENTS:

Imagined ditch water (whiskey using water mixer) and all kinds of interesting libations in his bottle! Great creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:26:00

oooo! great word! - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-21: 18:15:00

Good one, Andy...where's the next Aquaholic Anonymous Meeting? At the pool...? - Nosila, 2008-02-23: 00:07:00

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: Hii-droo-raa-mis

Sentence: Leave your own water bottles behind, we are not hiking, so don't be a hydroramis.

Etymology: hydro + ignoramus

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Created by: Banky

Pronunciation: oz-mohr-on

Sentence: "She looks so shriveled and mummified," Paul said, taking another osmoronic pull from the Nalgene bottle. "I can't believe she drowned." He fumbled to recap the jug as he stared at the husk of a woman before him. Kathleen sighed and left him alone by the casket as he noisily unscrewed the cap again for another swig.

Etymology: Osmosis - The involuntary passing of liquid across a membrane, moron - an insipid twit

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Chillingly good! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:17:00

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Created by: doseydotes

Pronunciation: pair-ee-ay-i-tate, or alternatively, pair-ee-ear-i-tate

Sentence: Bob's constant slurping from his water bottle in Tiffany's so perrieritated Meg that she finally cried out, "Give me that, you perrieritant!"

Etymology: Perrier + irritate

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So good, but I saw it so late! I wish I had three votes! It's Great! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 20:36:00

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