Verboticisms

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: 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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Created by: looseball

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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: 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: madara

Pronunciation: Tool-gal

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Created by: frankierio

Pronunciation: fig-ma-tyz

Sentence: Embarassed, and now looking up from the carpet,Maria figmatized the empty spot that did her in.

Etymology: A figment of your imagination that traumatizes oneself.

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COMMENTS:

Very good!! - Mustang, 2007-12-04: 05:32:00

I like it too! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:19:00

Agreed, excellent -- sounds very natural. - Tigger, 2007-12-04: 18:34:00

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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: 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: 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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