Verboticisms

Created by: WhiteRhino

Pronunciation: Re-butt-on

Sentence: Linda rebuttoned the elevator switch nervously.

Etymology: Re - again Button - uh...button.

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: mun kiss em

Sentence: monkism overtook Ray in the lift like a rage, he couldn't let anyone else press all the buttons.

Etymology: have you ever seen monk? he needs to touch EVERYTHING but stay clean.

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Created by: Pandora

Pronunciation: anal-push

Sentence: Although the crosswalk button was already lit, Jane noticed that the next man who arrived at the corner analpushed the button anyway.

Etymology: anal (obsessive) + push

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: com/push/yuhn

Sentence: He has to be sure he is in total control of his life and makes things happen for himself. As a result, he has to push all the buttons and make all his own choices to ensure he has forged his own path. His compushion is annoying to those around him, but he must control the panel of his life and be assured he caused what is to take place in his life.

Etymology: compulsion + push

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COMMENTS:

must...stop...compushion...with...snooze...button - Alchemist, 2007-04-10: 06:58:00

Could be an obsession with murder by smothering with a cusion. - petaj, 2007-04-10: 07:26:00

er cushion. - petaj, 2007-04-10: 07:27:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: press dee toot

Sentence: Irma was a pressdetout when it came to elevators. She had to press the buttons for each and every floor. It slowed down the elevator ride for many and caused people to get angry, but she could not help herself. She'd even press the button someone else had already lit up. Some people get the elevator, some just get the shaft...

Etymology: Press (to exert pressure or push on something) & De Tout (Fr: of everything, all) and Wordplay on Prostitute (someone who gets paid to push another's buttons, wink, wink, nod, nod)

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: re/dun/dant

Sentence: I know it was redonedant to press the button again but you never know, perhaps he didn't press it hard enough!

Etymology: redundant + done

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: ē-gŏp'rĕs

Sentence: It was clear that I'd hit the 'up button' for the elevator as it was indicated by the light. But when the man in the suit approached he gave it a firm egopress and shot me a knowing and condescending smile insinuating that it wouldn't have worked if he hadn't come and saved me from my un-elevated limbo.

Etymology: ego + press

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: PROD+dOMINATE

Sentence: We kept at it, each having to be the last one to push, cycling faster and faster in a mad frenzy for prodomination, not really wanting it to end as we responded to each other almost in synch, until finally we both just stood there looking at each other, exhausted, far past the time the elevator reached our floor -- I think I am in love.

Etymology: PROD+dOMINATE

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: press-dulge

Sentence: Jim's pressdulgence appeared harmless enough but in reality it was a symptom of his control freak behaviour.

Etymology: press + indulge

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: push/kin/i/tis

Sentence: The group originally met to read Pushkin poetry but soon pushkinitis ensued and the confused members began pushing around their families (kin)

Etymology: pushkin ( Russian poet) + itis

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COMMENTS:

I hate it at poetry readings when pushy people show up. - Stevenson0, 2007-04-10: 09:38:00

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