Verboticisms

Created by: hendrixius

Pronunciation: /gawk-werd/

Sentence: Bobby cast an annoyed, gawkward glance towards the perfectly level sidewalk behind him as he stumbled away from the trapparition.

Etymology: "gawk" and "awkward"

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Created by: CEE1ESS

Pronunciation: skorn-ific-ashun

Sentence: Tripping over an unseen rock, she gave it a glance of scornification, as if to blame her clumsiness on the bedrock beneath her feet.

Etymology: from the word scorn

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Created by: kabloozie

Pronunciation: OOP ser sats

Sentence: After tripping over his feet and causing his seventh turnover during the basketball tournament, Bob glared at the painted lines on the basketball court - another oopsersatz for him to blame his lousy ball handing on.

Etymology: oops + ersatz (phony or fake)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation:

Sentence: With accusing eyes, he fixed a scrapegoat at the offending floor tile.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

excellent! - galwaywegian, 2007-12-04: 07:57:00

nice one... - hendrixius, 2007-12-04: 15:11:00

Excellent! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:19:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: fan/ta/scribe

Sentence: Whenever something went wrong, he would always fantascribe the cause. Of course it was always something unseen by anyone else.

Etymology: fantasize + describe + ascribe (to blame - to attribute)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: glaow er pow er

Sentence: When Sally teetered on way too high shoes, she had more than one occasion to use her glowerpower. She would stumblegrumble and aimblame when she had a griptrip and almost wiped out. Everything but the killer shoes was a haltfault. Her walkknock should be blamed insteasd on her stylerevile and pridestride.

Etymology: Glower (to stare;look at with a fixed gaze) & Power (one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority)

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Created by: MichaelCampbellUK

Pronunciation: grim-sti-gate

Sentence: George vigorously grimstigated the third glowerfolly of the day.

Etymology: Grimace + castigate.

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COMMENTS:

Fine word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:19:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Scaip + grop + ing

Sentence: Needing to produce a reasonable explanation for his ineptitude and mindless bumbling, Arnold once again resorted to scapegroping.

Etymology: Scapegoat + groping

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: tuhm-buhl-geyz

Sentence: She was in the middle of an intense tumblegaze at the small patch of mud that caused her to end up on her backside, when a bus sped by splashing her with a curbside puddle.

Etymology: tumble (to fall) + gaze

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Created by: ebdub

Pronunciation: glaz - a - veri - istic

Sentence: If not for the slight, followed by a glazoveristic response, one would have to, in a way, acknowledge some part in such blundering folly.

Etymology: glaze-over-istic : of, relating to, or characteristic of glazing over

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