Verboticisms

Created by: paperhoard

Pronunciation: fix-oid

Sentence: He was able to fixoid on her cleavage like a deer caught in a head light despite repeated warnings from his giggling coworkers.

Etymology: fixate - to concentrate or focus + avoid - to ignore.

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I bet he can bambooble with the best of them as well! (Bambooble - to "accidentally" bump into a woman's breasts.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 07:55:00

Absolutely - poor Jim.... - paperhoard, 2007-01-26: 09:43:00

I wish I could devise some sort of nippalarm so I could see it coming...BEEP, BEEP, BEEP! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-26: 10:49:00

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Created by: hoylus

Pronunciation: pan-uh-ram-ee-mey-nee-uh

Sentence: due to his panoramimania, Bo couldn't see the trees for the wood.

Etymology: panorama - 'an unobstructed and wide view of an extensive area in all directions' Mania - 'excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze'

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Propp-purr-sep-shun

Sentence: His lack of properception is a severe handicap at work, but he can talk for hours about the exact arrangement of peanuts in the snack bowl.

Etymology: Proper+perception. Actually, properception is a technical term in psychiatry, which means "capturing the world and the internal needs" as opposed to perception, "capturing the world and the external stimulus" (Wikipedia).

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Inspired by, but not to be confused with "proprioception", which is the ability to sense the position and orientation of your muscles/body. - Discoveria, 2007-01-26: 06:20:00

Good one Discoveria! Very well researched! Detailed! Obviously you don't suffer from properception... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:02:00

Thanks - though of course I didn't do that much research - Verboogle picked it up! - Discoveria, 2007-01-26: 09:57:00

Wow, that Verboogle is everywhere! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 16:36:00

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Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: gen-er-all-ahyz

Sentence: Men seem to be better at generaleyezing when it comes to messes, and women when it comes to working.

Etymology: generalize + eyes

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COMMENTS:

'Objection, your honour....' (!) - egonschiela, 2007-01-27: 15:43:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: tuhn-l-vizh-uh-ner-ee

Sentence: Where others can't see the forest for the trees, Jeromy doesn't even notice the trees. He just sees the money he can make when he builds his next mega-mall. He is such a tunnelvisionary that it doesn't bother him that only 3,000 people live within a 30-minute drive from his new site.

Etymology: tunnel vision (an extremely narrow or prejudiced outlook; narrow-mindedness) + visionary (a person of unusually keen foresight)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: yoōtōpətən

Sentence: John*s boss is a Utopitan. He has never been introduced to a practical detail that he can*t ignore, much to the pain of his employees. Where others can*t see the forest for the trees, he can*t see the trees for the forest. This is especially bad for someone who owns a tree trimming service.

Etymology: Utopian (modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic) + pita (pain in the ass)

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Created by: lilty4422

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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: 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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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: hi-per-OH-pie

Sentence: He hopped into bed to lay with his wife, turning a hyperopeye on the naked stranger already in bed with the woman.

Etymology: hyperopia [an abnormal condition of the eye in which vision is better for distant objects than for near objects] + eye; used as in "blind eye"

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