Verboticisms

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: Redrover

Pronunciation: AH-KWA-cessive

Sentence: When Nancy and Marshall went anywhere it was always understood that Nancy would bring along a large purse to hold Marshall's ubiquitous bottle of Poland Spring.

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COMMENTS:

Interesting way to suck up to each other! Intriguing sentence! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:32:00

it sounds like he treated his water like an aquaccessary - he should borrow purple's aquajockstrap and carry his own - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 13:59:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: sip-BOT-l

Sentence: There they were: a motley mob of drinkwaters, sipsops, aquaholics, potable-notables, hydroeclectics and sipbottles with their prete-a-pote designer bottiglia. I said to Bluey. "Crikey, what's this country coming to when a bloke can't get a beer". Blue nodded, "Dunno, but I got more respect for a koala than this lot. But ya know, Bobbie boy, what "Evian" spells backwards, don't ya? Naive!"

Etymology: SIPBOTTLE:Sip & bottle. PRETE-A-POTE:ready to drink, based on prete-a-porte. KOALA: marsupial whose name means in native languages: one who doesn't drink water. EVIAN: the most popular brand of bottled water in Australia, probably sold worldwide.

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COMMENTS:

I really like hydroeclectics - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 13:38:00

My favorite was potable-notables. Bountiful verbots! Bountiful humor! Nice twists! Great sentence! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:49:00

How about 'sipsops'? So many to choose from, Bob. Interesting bit about the word 'Koala' too! - Tigger, 2008-02-21: 23:34:00

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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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COMMENTS:

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: 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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COMMENTS:

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: rikboyee

Pronunciation: aych-too-oh-ver-dohss

Sentence: my friends ended up having to hold an intervention to stop me from H2Overdosing

Etymology: H2O, overdose

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COMMENTS:

OK! P+! (bad pun on pee plus)! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:10:00

I'm glas you finally dried out - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 13:35:00

oops that should be glad - I guess I was thinking of glass - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-21: 13:36:00

I try your approach, but found it difficult. Best I could come up with was., "H2osis" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-22: 00:16:00

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: ay-vee-on-oy-ing

Sentence: Everyone stared at Kate as she indulged her eviannoying habit of consistent hydration during the middle of Sunday mass.

Etymology: Evian: popular bottled water brand + annoying

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COMMENTS:

Great etymology. You captured the unnecessary and impolite aspects of the definition swimmingly! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:16:00

I can just imagine 'Kate' trying to refill from the baptismal font. - Tigger, 2008-02-21: 23:25:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: awk - wuh - mane - ee - ack

Sentence: Filbert is an absolute aquamaniac and no matter where he goes, even in the shower, bathroom and during church services he'll be seen toting his bottle of 'spring water'.

Etymology: aqua and maniac

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COMMENTS:

Fits the definition to a T! Suckceedingly good! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 02:20:00

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: bottle/u/lism

Sentence: Harry was ever fearful of the dreaded bottleulism outbreak of '99 and therefore kept his bottled water handy at all times.

Etymology: bottle + botulism

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COMMENTS:

Wish I'd thought of it. Great word!! - Mustang, 2008-02-21: 08:02:00

That is so clever!! - libertybelle, 2008-02-21: 09:12:00

Outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-21: 13:19:00

Very clever! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-22: 00:20:00

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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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