Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: no kwayn tans

Sentence: Although Sally had hired her best friend Melissa and had still socialized with her outside work at non-work functions, she did not want it known they were friends. Melissa was now a nocquaintance and went along with this charade.In truth, Sally and she were long-time lovers and their employer, The Straight Times, a gay-bashing extreme newspaper tended to frown on this type of relationship!

Etymology: No (not, negative) & Acquaintance (colleague, associate)

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: car + ear + full

Sentence: I got a careerful from my buddy about his weekend of boozing and carousing, but then we went back to just being plain old co-workers.

Etymology: career + earful

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Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: dis/pal/o/mime

Sentence: My dispalomime Suzy cant keep her trap shut when we are at the office. I dont want anyone to know we go out after work because everyone considers Suzy to be a floozy. Well, she IS one but Suzy always attracts lots of men when she goes out and theres always an extra wingman for me.

Etymology: Dis (to show disrespect for; affront) + Pal (intimate friend; comrade; chum.) + Pantomime (conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.)

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-23: 10:20:00

Love it! - Nosila, 2008-09-23: 12:42:00

good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-24: 05:49:00

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Created by: zavijava

Pronunciation:

Sentence: My cubedestfriend was so serious about keeping our friendship secret that if she needed advice at work, she'd go to the bathroom and call me at my desk.

Etymology: cubicle+clandestine+friend

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Created by: zxvasdf

Pronunciation: hīd'

Sentence: To engage in a hyde is to deny your companion, and further suggests as to the superficiality of the relationship despite outward clues towards the otherwise. Sigh! She's hyding again. I guess I'll eat lunch by myself again, thought Suzy. Hydden relationships cluster in office buildings all over the world. Confessions of a Serial Hyder: A Memoir was ranked at lowest by the NY Times owing to the generally unappealing choice of verbosity.

Etymology: Hyde (of Jekyll and Hyde notoriety, suggesting a complete upheaval of the original personality)

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COMMENTS:

BRILLIANT! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-14: 02:46:00

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Created by: Lolagrrl

Pronunciation: Know-soss-ee-ate

Sentence: You can't tell by the way he dismisses my ideas but the AD of Marketing is a nosociate of mine... Really... He is.

Etymology: No - not, nyet, negatory, nunca + Associate minus Ass - as in "a$$hole" but the ass is still there, it's just silent

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COMMENTS:

Funny etymology! - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-25: 11:38:00

Hahaha! Thanks! :D - Lolagrrl, 2007-10-25: 12:36:00

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Created by: Entombor2

Pronunciation: in e chat

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: kyub-VERT / enn-IG-maydz

Sentence: Sarah and Tammy had been cubevertly seeing each other despite being coworkers, however, as enigmaides they were having trouble concealing what happened during lunch hour.

Etymology: cube (as in cubicle) + covert / enigma + aides

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COMMENTS:

Wow, sorry for the late entry! I nealy missed this. - MrDave2176, 2007-10-25: 22:13:00

oh I just thought of another one...dissenfriendchise - MrDave2176, 2007-10-25: 22:16:00

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Created by: Chickp

Pronunciation: Con-fee-dont

Sentence: My office confidont will remember that we do not talk now but after hours.

Etymology: Confidant + don't

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: nin-chəm

Sentence: Don was Barbara's best ninchum. Her company had a strict policy against co-workers fraternizing and the fact that she was his supervisor made it all the more imperative to keep their friendship under wraps. They had known each other since elementary school but now acted like they had never met before.

Etymology: Ninja (In Japanese history, a ninjais a warrior, trained in martial arts, and specializing in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. The methods used by ninja included assassination, espionage, stealth, camouflage)+ chum (a close friend.)

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