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DEFINITION: v., To speak in an inspirational but perhaps incomprehensible manner by stringing together a series of grunts and clichés. n., An inarticulate TV or radio, post-game interview, typically given by a panting, toothless, sweating, verbally-challenged, and hugely overpaid, athletic superstar.
Verboticisms
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Superfludundant
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: soo-per-flue-DUN-dant
Sentence: Giving his usual superfludundant gobbledygook responses to the rapid fire questions about the game following his teams' victory, Garrison felt was making a good impression on the tv audience while in fact few people actually understood a word of his gibberish.
Etymology: Blend of 'superfluous' and 'redundant'....a word that is doubly redundant/superfluous itself.
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COMMENTS:
just trying to say the word gets your point across - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-27: 13:21:00
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Sportled
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: sport-old
Sentence: The spokesportsman sportled a badinage of thisthat until he ran out of stupidendous chitchat.
Etymology: Sportled: a play on sports, oracle, and chortled. Stupidendous: a play on stupid and stupendous.
Puzzeal
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: pez-zel
Sentence: Some people get butterflies in their stomachs, but Kimberly gets bullfrogs in her throat whenever she's excited. "I was just so happy when the final season of LOST started that I couldn't even talk during the first commercial break," she recounted. Sadly, Kimberly is not alone and suffers alongside dozens of stars of romantic comedies. Luckily science can help! PhunPharmasuitcals introduces Puzzealia, a new medication to treat sufferers of Puzzeal. Side effects include: broken eyeballs, leprosy, and cannibalism.
Etymology: Puzzle (confuse) + Zeal (excitement)
Idiotickers
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: id-e-ot-ik-ers
Sentence: The Speebee team rambled on with idiotickers during the interview.
Etymology: A play on the word Idiot- An utterly foolish or senseless person.
Skiterbole
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: sky ter bowl ee
Sentence: Wayne treated the fans to a gasping, vacuous paragraph of skiterbole. Fortunately, their short attention spans allowed his undeservedly high reputation to stay intact.
Etymology: From Skite and Hyperbole
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COMMENTS:
Was Wayne a skiterboy? sk8ter boy. - petaj, 2008-11-28: 04:05:00
nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-29: 14:45:00
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Adrenablabber
Created by: picabomama
Pronunciation: a-dren-a-blaa-ber
Sentence: The game winning goal was procured by Stone Galumphus, who spoke in rapid adrenablabber to reporters shortly after the conclusion of today's contest.
Etymology: adrenalin + blabber
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COMMENTS:
Good word! Got a sentence for it? - ErWenn, 2008-02-04: 09:58:00
Great Combo! - sean30, 2008-02-04: 15:58:00
Like your word! It's easy to say and to pick the meaning. Just saying it sounds like some adrenablabber being spouted! - bananabender, 2008-02-05: 00:02:00
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Lipoosuction
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: lip/ooo/suk/shun
Sentence: The hockey superstar was trying so hard to suck up to the interviewer and not offend any of his team that his interview was merely lipoosuction.
Etymology: lip(as in lip service) + ooh(didn't put the 'h' in the word because it turned it into pooh)+ suck (as in suck up) + liposuction
Platidude
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: platidoōd
Sentence: After the team has a rough game and nobody wants to face the press, they trot out their best platidude. Phrases like **It was a learning experience**, **It*s a building year**, and **They were the better team tonight** flow from his mouth without so much as a thought. When he was finished most of the reporters still had blank note pads.
Etymology: platitude (a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful) + dude (a man; a guy)
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COMMENTS:
good word, dude... - Nosila, 2010-04-22: 11:39:00
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Gumbyism
Created by: CanadianAndyCapp
Pronunciation: Gum-bee-ism
Sentence: After competing in the "Twit of the Year" competition, the former brain specialist and Britain's leading Gumbyist, Mr. Arnold Poutee, proudly banged his winning brick medal against his head and gave a rousing speech, filled with fluent Gumbyism's. Making everyone say "My Brain Hurts"
Etymology: Gumbyism: Obscure origin, originally thought to derive from an overly flexible green animated character of children's television. Now claimed for a popular booted, sweatered and hankie'd character from a British television show dealing with snakes.
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COMMENTS:
great sentence - bookowl, 2008-02-04: 15:57:00
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Patterup
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: patt-er-up
Sentence: The whole side fronted up for the patterup with the journalists after winning the game. The PITCHer started up first with his SPIELE, which soon degenerated into a garBALLed outpouring. His teammates all started shouting the usual cliches about the proverbial wire, the good fight put up by the opposition and taking just one game at a time.
Etymology: Batter Up - baseball term to call up the next batter + patter (speech - especially fast/rehearsed) pitch (salesman's speech) spiele (German for games) ball (as in games)
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COMMENTS:
Classy. The (not so) subtle innuendo adds another level to the pun and hints insightfully at the obsequious relationship between media and sport - emdeejay, 2008-11-27: 04:42:00
It's a hit we can all have a ball using! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-27: 12:29:00
You're a diamond in the rough, petaj...and you keep all your bases covered! - Nosila, 2008-11-27: 20:03:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James