Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: doj-loj

Sentence: Well children, the GFC has ruined us. The bank has foreclosed and next week the repo men will no doubt arrive to take away the furniture and the next we'll be dodgelodging.

Etymology: Dodge (motor vehicle manufacturer) + lodge (n. cabin or v. reside)

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Created by: gee216

Pronunciation: cur-es-i-dent

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Weclome. You can get more points by entering a sentence and etymology, see scoring under News/Help. Good first effort. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-18: 01:27:00

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Created by: feltcap

Pronunciation: ɪntərˈsteɪtlɛs

Sentence: After his father walked in on a rather intimate moment he was sharing with his mother they had been interstateless.

Etymology: interstate - a highway serving two or more states, stateless - lacking nationality or without nationality or citizenship

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Created by: simoneshin

Pronunciation: wreck homer

Sentence: when she found out he brought this homewrecker in to their home she through him out and he became a wreckhomer

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nice! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-17: 06:53:00

Clever switcheroo! Super Duper word, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-17: 13:34:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ford abel how zing

Sentence: After losing his job and home, Randy moved the family into his Focus, so that they would have fordablehousing.

Etymology: Affordable housing (low cost dwelling) & Ford(automobile brand)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kon doh min eeeeeeeeeee van

Sentence: He lived in a condominivan with his wife, two kids, his pet sheep and his accountant.

Etymology: condominium, mini van

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Excellent blend. Sheep and accountant? Sounds kinky....he said, with a sheepish grin. - Mustang, 2009-02-17: 08:14:00

fantastic - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-17: 09:35:00

I think you mean Vantastic,Jab...and as for the sheep, ewe go galwaywegian! - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 01:21:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: car-part-ment

Sentence: Sam Snickerly, would have gotten a larger automobile had he known it was going to be a carpartment for his entire family.

Etymology: Car- An automobile. Apartment-A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.

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:)Thanks you all! I need to show up more often with my right brain. - abrakadeborah, 2012-01-31: 00:46:00

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: van-eh-tee-pee

Sentence: Vanity, vanity...saith the Preacher...all is vanity. Shane, taking refuge from the city, didn't know if he was shivering with excitement or from the cold, but in this darkness before the dawn, he was sure he had come up with the perfect solution to the housing problem he faced. He had heard of the Tiny House Movement...now how about the Tiny Tee Pee Movement? He stared around the sides of his van. He could see his invention so vividly. He could help others. He would call them Vaniteepees. It would be Spring soon and the snow would be melting. Then he could open up the roof, even take off the sides. There were plenty of small trees to use. Once he got the trees down, he wondered where he would get the material to cover the sides...but, never mind, it was great to dream. It sure would be nice to be able to build a fire right in the middle of your own house. Those Indians had a good idea. He curled up tighter. He would start whittling tomorrow...

Etymology: From VAN, a boxed-shaped vehicle on 4 wheels + TEE PEE, from the Lakota language meaning "to dwell;" also playing on VANITY, the excessive belief in own's own abilities

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: pair-re-GRETTER

Sentence: Mad Shirley just seemed to suck at life. Talked into refinancing her adobe abode by a mortgage huckster, she became an involuntary terrestrial- an itinerant grinch dwelling in her wagonocturne and taking rapid sponge baths in fast-food joints. A 21st century PEREGRETTER, Shirley and her loyal feline sidekick knew every bleak parking lot and all-nite diner where a rolling stone might catch a few furtive winks before being hustled on by the local brain police. Still, life was good and she was thankful for the warm rising of the sun and the maintenance of the public parks. Mad Shirley was grateful when Mister America walked on by...without tapping on her windshield. A home on four rubber donuts was still a home. As the last snowflakes of winter fluttered down, she stroked her cat and vowed to make life better...

Etymology: PEREgrine+reGRETTER=PEREGRETTER........PEREGRINE:having a tendency to wander;Middle French peregrin, from Medieval Latin peregrinus, from Latin, foreign .....REGRET:to mourn the loss or death of,to miss very much,to be very sorry for;Middle English regretten, from Anglo-French regreter, from re- + -greter (perhaps of Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse grāta to weep)

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Terrestrial-of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants ;Middle English, from Latin terrestris, from terra earth.....Itinerant-traveling from place to place;Late Latin itinerant-, itinerans, present participle of itinerari to journey.....Wagon-a usually four-wheeled vehicle for transporting bulky commodities or people and drawn originally by animals;Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch.....Nocturne-a work of art dealing with evening or night;French, adjective, nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 18:55:00

Yeah....We're back. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:06:00

The mighty Susquehanna was frightening-a mighty river, not an insipid stream, manageable and tame. The multitudes had followed it's course...to freedom and adventure. And now it carried it's burden of ice and sorrow down to the Chesapeake Bay- unstoppable and unknowable forever. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-17: 20:33:00

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: caw taj - homophone with cottage

Sentence: Unfortunately they eventually lost their home and took up residence in their car. It would be temporary. When not downtown working, they returned up north to their carttage. As time went by, their carttage became their “home a way from home”.

Etymology: carttage and carttager. From "cottage" and "car".

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