Verboticisms

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: buzz-big-le

Sentence: He buzzbiggled his way into the honey pot, but was sad to discover it wasn't as sweet as he thought it would bee.

Etymology: buzz+big

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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: CharlieB

Pronunciation: mi-nū-shi-a-vûrs

Sentence: Rob believed that to get ahead in hedge fund management you really needed to minutiaverse.

Etymology: minutia (minute detail) + averse (disinclined, reluctant)

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Created by: kyotonils

Pronunciation: dee-ny-o'-pi-a

Sentence: Even after a panel of long-time experts advised him to pull out of Iraq, Bush's denyopia would not allow him to consider it.

Etymology: deny+opia (eye disorders such as myopia, near-sightedness, and presbyopia, inablilty to see presbyterians)

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Hey kyotonils, You should get a job as a speech writer at the white house! I'm sure the president would love to expand his vocabulary, and you could help him do it! - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 07:14:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Con-sen-trey-shun

Sentence: Martin has a unique power of concentraition wherein he is able to ignore any and all manner of chaos surrounding him and bear down on the even the smallest of details at hand.

Etymology: Blend of Concentrate (to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus) and Trait (a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature)

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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: Alchemist

Pronunciation: BOOSH-vizh-yun

Sentence: When Andy started using his shotgun to swat flies, we knew he'd become afflicted with bushvision.

Etymology: Bush + vision

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Yes, Andy used the big guns to shoot big picture... - wordmeister, 2007-01-26: 00:54:00

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: hype er vat ick

Sentence: Donald was always away with the faeries in a hypervatic moment.

Etymology: From Vatic: a prophetic person, pertaining to, or characteristic of a prophet. Also from hyper to over do it a bit. Because I tend to think the bigger picture is usually a more prophetic answer.

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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: 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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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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