Verboticisms

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: xirtam

Pronunciation: ə-pŏk'rə-fō'gəld

Sentence: John aporcyphogled the location where he slipped. He could have sworn he saw a banana peel through the corner of his eye as he was tumbling down the stairs.

Etymology: Apocryphal - Erroneous; fictitious. + ogled - To stare at.

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Created by: dubld

Pronunciation: {x/o/pro/jek/shun}

Sentence: Exoprojection was the way Mark maintained his composure, cursing the heavens for the invisible trip wire instead of crying for his clumsiness.

Etymology: EXO- "Outward" PROJECTION - "Casting something onto something else"

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Created by: Rabbit

Pronunciation: un-graceful-i-tis

Sentence: Though suffering from ungracefulitis, Alice still continues to go about daily errands denying her condition.

Etymology: ungraceful - clumsy + itis - inflamation of any part of the body consisting in the congestion of blood vessels.

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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: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ah-SAY-over-tin-cups

Sentence: It was a well-known fact that Tom was a clutz. He tried to hide the fact for a few months by performing a careful assayovertincups, but after stumbling over just about every crack between the tiles in the office floor, he gave up the blooperuse.

Etymology: ass-over-tin-cups, assay

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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: 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: 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: MithrilShadow

Pronunciation: drēm-skāp-ˌgōt (Dream+Scapegoat)

Sentence: When Jason tripped on seemingly nothing, he blamed it on an invisible Leprechaun. But we all know that was just a dreamscapegoat. (Note: Scapegoat comes from: a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur)

Etymology: Dream: a visionary creation of the imagination. Scapegoat: one that bears the blame for others.

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