Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: n., An ongoing relationship where one person does all the talking, whining and complaining, and the other just listens quietly and tries to appear sympathetic. v., To participate in a lopsided conversation where one person does all the conversing.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Soliloquacious
Created by: jajsr
Pronunciation: So-lill-e-quack-shus
Sentence: After every disagreement with her boyfriend, Mary would fill her pet in with all of the details. She thought her cat understood her, but the cat knew it was Mary being soliloquacious.
Etymology: Combination of "Soliloquy": the act of talking to oneself, and "Loquacious": given to fluent or excessive talk.
Fakeism
Created by: carliejansen
Pronunciation: fake-ism
Sentence: I believe in Christianity and she belives in fakeism.
Etymology: fake-to pretend;simulate ism-suffix forming nouns of action, state, condition, doctrine
Uniblather
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: yoo-nuh-blath-er
Sentence: Jane's cat seemed to be unaffected by her uniblather. Unfortunately, the annual trip to the vet disclosed a case of bleeding ear syndrome.
Etymology: unilateral (relating to, occurring on, or involving one side only) + blather (to talk or utter foolishly; blither; babble)
Rantipal
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ran-TEE-pal
Sentence: Roxie's rantipals deserted her, one by one, until there remained only three: her catonic cat, Tib; Ivan her crapnoduliac cockatoo and, of course, her completely craptive and long suffering companion, Bob.
Etymology: RANT + I : to talk foolishly, noisely, rave, harangue & PAL: chum. comrade, associate. 2. CRAPNODULIAC: Slave of "crap" : foolish, exaggerated talk. -based on capnoduliac- (chain smoker: lit- "slave of smoke") #3 CRAPTIVE (crap & captive).
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Right on the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-11: 08:54:00
great etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-11: 14:43:00
----------------------------
Comadoze
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation: coma doze
Sentence: he must have been listening, since i saw his head nodding the whole time i was ranting about whateveritwas
Etymology: coma doze
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-11: 09:07:00
----------------------------
Rhetoriflux
Created by: DaddyNewt
Pronunciation: ri/TAWR/i/fluks
Sentence: Any relationship will suffer from rhetoriflux.
Etymology: rhetoric + flux
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
I love the word "flux". - metrohumanx, 2008-12-04: 16:24:00
----------------------------
Monologamy
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After eight years of listening to Jonathan, Dennis wondered if monologamy was really for him.
Etymology: Hybrid of monogamy and monologue.
Soliloquerulous
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: so/lil/o/kware/uh/lus
Sentence: Sue so was soliloquerulous that, even when her best friend was absent she constantly wore a headset with a playback feature so she wouldn't miss a single word.
Etymology: soliloquy (act of talking alone or regardless of any hearers) + querulous (complaining; peevish)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
Superb. Not just a verboticism, a genuine neologism. Can't wait to use it! - emdeejay, 2008-12-04: 06:47:00
Admire your excellent use of irony in your sentence! Fits Sue (so) many. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-04: 12:38:00
Yes, it IS superb! Fun for my stumbling tongue, too. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-04: 16:36:00
Terrific - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-05: 03:03:00
Great word! - TJayzz, 2008-12-07: 10:33:00
----------------------------
Siliance
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: si/li/ance
Sentence: Fred was quite happy with his siliance with Betty. He loved being with her and she did all the speaking for both of them all the time they were together.
Etymology: silent + alliance
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
nice blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-11: 14:52:00
Softly done ... both the sentnece and word. Fits the definition well. Kudos! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-11: 18:20:00
Clever blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-11: 18:30:00
very nice very nice!!!!!!!!!?!!!!?!!!?! - purpleman, 2008-02-11: 19:33:00
----------------------------
Converleech
Created by: EmmaHeras
Pronunciation: con-vur-leech
Sentence: Dorris had Mary in a converleech, She would carry on for hours about all of her problems, leeching brain cells from Mary, who could only try innocently to listen without shutting Dorris up with a brick.
Etymology: conver- from the english to converse, or conversation; to talk -leech, to subtract, take away, suck out, as in life or brain cells. Can also be used as a verb, "to converleech" or a noun for the person at the talking end of a converleech.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Jabberwocky - 2008-02-11: 05:57:00
very funny cartoon today - I look forward to seeing them every day
Thanks Jabberwocky! I was thinking of you when I did it. Of course, you're the cat, and I'm the babbler. ~ James
Jabberwocky - 2008-02-11: 11:38:00
that's okay - looks like a very happy cat - probably listening to some old Cat Stevens songs
OZZIEBOB - 2008-02-11: 18:38:00
The cat looks so friendly, I could moggicoddle him. Another great cartoon in a long line of great cartoons!
silveryaspen - 2008-02-11: 18:42:00
Your definition really elicited a lot of good words, remistram. Good one!
silveryaspen - 2008-02-11: 18:43:00
I second Jabberwocky's 'I look forward to your cartoons each day' ... me two, James. Can I be the mouse missing from the ipod?
Thanks! Of course the most fun is seeing how everyone responds to the creative challenge by reading their wonderful words! That's what I look forward to every day. ~ James
Excellent!
emdeejay - 2008-12-04: 05:01:00
Love the way it FINishes :-)
"Excellent" was supposed to appear under YOUR word....ahhh- the mysteries of the comment box!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Genkareink - 2019-05-03: 17:32:00
http://golovastik.by/forum/user/13508/ https://up74.ru/forum/user/6827/ http://kobelyakuschool.ucoz.ru/index/8-7565 http://socgorod74.ru/forum/?PAG
Genkareink - 2019-05-03: 18:47:00
http://portal.do.mrsu.ru/forum/index.php?PAGE_NAME=profile_view&UID=16092 http://enesk.ru/communication/forum/user/2524/ http://vvrgornsh.ucoz.ru/in