Verboticisms

Created by: onceinabluemoon88

Pronunciation: Con - fuss - ling

Sentence: "this is so confuzzling"

Etymology: baby talk for confussing

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COMMENTS:

It's a great word! Not confuzzling at all... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:06:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: pan-oh-rah-moor-eh

Sentence: he continued to focus on coming up with a clever word for the new definition, even while the children ran riot around him....he couldn't help but see what was really important for he was blessed with panoramore

Etymology: panorama, amore[love]

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Funny sentence!!! Toss the kids a box of Cheerios and turn on Sponge Bob. - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 06:13:00

Hey rikboyee! How did you know what was happening at my house this morning? - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:05:00

- rikboyee, 2007-01-27: 18:41:00

we are all similarly afflicted... its hard work being defined by your definitions - rikboyee, 2007-01-27: 18:43:00

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Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: soft han del ing

Sentence: Taylor softhandled the introduction of the new corporate logo, ignoring the impact it would have upon printing costs that would be incurred when the existing promotional literature would require scrapping.

Etymology: Soft hands; never getting one's hands roughed up by actually doing the work that is called for in decisions made from ivory towers (am I being too pointed?)

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Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: nan-dee-rayel-ment

Sentence: Hugo's nonderailment allowed him to get his reports done without the distraction of Freecell(tm).

Etymology: non + derail

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COMMENTS:

ahwinters, I think you're on track with this one... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:35:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ho-kuss-FO-kuss

Sentence: Bob was able to tune out the annoying fire alarms and dense smoke because at that particular moment, he was hocusfocusing on world peace.

Etymology: hocus pocus, focus

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COMMENTS:

Hey purpleairtichokes, That's a magical word! If only I could hocusfocus on my work, then I might get something done... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:08:00

I hear ya! Verbotomy.com is a constant source of internetference with my work. - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 07:59:00

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Created by: cryptc

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Dave never bothered with the little things, so his friends suspected he was afflicted by microblindness.

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Created by: Buzzardbilly

Pronunciation: hə-ˈrī-zən-rīzd

Sentence: v. He was so horizonized that he could never focus on how to pay attention to the little details of how to reach a big goal. Instead, he stumbled through life unable to see the potholes because he couldn't stop focusing on the horizon. n. His horizonization was the worst. The man walked around with bees on his face, his fly unzipped, and some part of breakfast dangling from a lip corner, yet he was completely oblivious to it all because he was a slave to the big picture but a zombie on the day-to-day.

Etymology: Horizon - the boundary one sees in the furthest distance where sky meets earth as far as they eye believes. Also from Greek present participle of horizein meaning "to bound, define" and Mesmerize - Which is the eponymous word for what F.A. Mesmer did, which was to hypnotize.

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COMMENTS:

Slave and zombie all at once -- great image - jrogan, 2009-08-28: 23:01:00

Great word...horizontal thinking at it's best! - Nosila, 2009-08-28: 23:41:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: viz zhun err ee

Sentence: Vincent was a visionairy who worked in an apiary. No, he did not look after apes, he was a beekeeper, who was always abuzz with new ideas. He would drone on and on to his co-workers about his revolutionary ideas, like planting mini-video cams on the bees' backs to make cute movies for the Internet. He would wax poetic about spelling bees...bees who would spell out words. His friends thought he'd bee better off using a comb on his hair, playing his Queen cd's while actually becoming a worker and using some cream on those hives!

Etymology: Visionary (a person with unusual powers of foresight;a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible adjective:not practical or realizable; speculative) & Airy (not practical or realizable; speculative;characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air)

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Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: TREE-blind-ness

Sentence: Al, a "can't see the forest for the trees" kinda guy, never made it to the campout because he spent all day assembling his survival kit. Jim, who suffered from treeblindness, got there early. So early that it was too dark to see the cliff he walked over.

Etymology: "Can't see the forest for the trees," reversed, + nightblindness

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COMMENTS:

Good one. - ErWenn, 2007-01-29: 00:34:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: mi-nyu-she-o-pi-a

Sentence: Larry's lack of ability to see the small picture was due to his minutiopia. Mary took him to the opthamologist, but unfortunately, there was no script there to help his oversightedness.

Etymology: minutia: a small or trivial detail + opia: suffix that indicates a visual condition or defect(as in myopia - the inability to see distances or short sighted)

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