Verboticisms

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: 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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Created by: CrayonWarrior

Pronunciation: wee-thur-ump

Sentence: Whenever David tripped up he would witherump the ground, aiming to blame a non existant trip hazard

Etymology: Wither - to stare at with hate. Hump - small bump

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Created by: madara

Pronunciation: Tool-gal

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /fan-tim'-pli-kayt/

Sentence: After doing a superb impression of Marcel Marceau, tripping over nothing whatsoever, Josh felt compelled to phantimplicate an invisible hump in the floor, and a possible gravitational fluctuation, as the cause of his klutziness.

Etymology: phantom - creation of the imagination, (Latin phantasma) + implicate - to incriminate; to involve in an accusation (Latin, implicāre)

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Nice blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:20:00

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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: biffbig1

Pronunciation: get+up+it+ee

Sentence: His getupitee never got up and went so I tripped over him and it made me mad.

Etymology: giddyup + he

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Created by: schoolmarm

Pronunciation: fo/FAULT

Sentence: Quickly recovering her balance, she subjected the errant sidewalk crack to a fauxfault intense enough to wither lettuce at fifty feet.

Etymology: French

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: diss riss peck terr

Sentence: His disrespectre was directed at the invisible force that forced his open shoelace under his other foot while he was at the bar ordering his twelfth pint of guinness......probably a portergiest!

Etymology: disrespect, spectre.

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Created by: Bullwinkle

Pronunciation: Foe'trip

Sentence: That photrip is dangerous

Etymology: see: faux

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