Verboticisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: scape/goat/herd

Sentence: Jim established himself as the official scapegoatherd in the office. He carefully rounded up his victims from the weakest links he could find and took great pleasure in tormenting them.

Etymology: scape goat + goatherd

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COMMENTS:

Song of the day - that goatherd song from Sound of Music. YODELAAAHEEEE! Good word Jabber. - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-02: 09:56:00

Loud was the voice of the lonely scapegoatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-02: 11:45:00

That's "goating" to extremes. Maybe he was the Goatfather! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-02: 20:40:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: vill - an - net

Sentence: Flossie became a villainet soon after she joined Facebook. One minute she was your friend; the next she was making cruel, nasty comments on your "wall"....weaving a net of wicked social networking.

Etymology: villain (wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately) --> i-net (The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet) -- > net (a trap made of netting, or short for internet)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mey/tree/arch/en/uh/mee

Sentence: Janice became the matriarchenemy of the book club regulars by verbally attacking the opinions of Dody, the friendliest and most popular member at the neighbourhood library Book of the Month discussion.

Etymology: matriarch + archenemy (antagonist, adversary, attacher)

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Created by: stache

Pronunciation: kä'mə-rä'də-rāp'tər

Sentence: After Georgette appended gushingly complimentary comments to every one of the submissions on the poetry blog, Flo just couldn't help herself. She was, by her very nature, a camaraderaptor. She posted a stinging limerick, the first line of which was, "A bunny rabbit named Georgette... ."

Etymology: 'camara,' var. of 'kamara,' soviet-era spy technology popular with kgb notable Boris Badinov; 'der,' German article; 'apt,' particularly appropriate, as this definition vis. doseydotes; 'or,' denoting approximately equally-weighted alternatives, as in 'defecate or vacate the porcelain receptacle.'

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COMMENTS:

Still laughing over the last line. Great! - Jamagra, 2008-04-02: 08:41:00

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-02: 12:55:00

Excellent! - Mustang, 2008-04-02: 18:06:00

Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-02: 19:03:00

Stache, you are an etymologizing animal! Very funny; good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-02: 20:30:00

thanks, y'all. from giants among verbotomists such as yourselves these kind words mean much. - stache, 2008-04-02: 23:21:00

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: bul-lE-ses-shun

Sentence: Jill, at 98 lbs., joined a help group for compulsive eaters. She immediatly started with the "fat jokes" and degrading comments focused at the members of the group. Suddenly, the bull session turned into a hostile bullysession, and Jill found herself on the bottom of a pile of 500 lb. people. Dog pile on the rabbit! ( from bugs bunny)

Etymology: bull session/ bully

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Ack - ruh - MONE - ee - miss

Sentence: Blanche never misses a chance to point out other people's mistakes or weak points and considers herself to be a bit better than everyone else. But she is regarded in her social circles as an acrimonymiss because of the nasty manner in which she delivers her criticisms.

Etymology: Blend of acrimony and the title 'miss'

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Created by: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Snar-kast-i-grin-ch

Sentence: After failing to impress the other members of the War of 1812 onelist chat group with his badly researched and spurious historical submissions. Colin sought to boost his own ego by attacking the work of others and where that failed, to make the criticisms personal. For this he was rapidly branded as a Snarcastigrinch by the rest of the group.

Etymology: Snarkastic -(Sarcastic)- The lowest form of wit. (Snarky)- Geordie form of bad-tempered. / (Grinch)- see Dr. Seuss.

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COMMENTS:

nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-02: 11:36:00

Clever blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-02: 20:42:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: blun-der-EL-lah

Sentence: Ellen was known (behind her back, of course) as blunderella for her lousy social skills and the appellation was derived from her uncanny ability to immediately turn a friendly discussion into a disaster thru her mindless though unintended insults which usually targeted the most innocent of the participants.

Etymology: Blend of Blunder and the name Ella, a far fetched play on the name Cinderella.

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COMMENTS:

What happens to her at midnight??? - Nosila, 2009-05-22: 00:10:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: dred-beet

Sentence: Behind her back, all of Sandra's social circle called her the dreadbeat as they all dreaded the malicious and mean spirited attention she would give them at parties, on Facebook and even thru emails.

Etymology: Bleand of 'dread' (horrible, terrifying) and 'beat' (to sound, as on a drum) - also, a play on the word 'deadbeat'

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Created by: Leroylee

Pronunciation: Bunny-Ki-ker

Sentence: She's such a bunnykicker, ignore her!

Etymology: from the word Bunny and Kicker

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