Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: noōlēweb

Sentence: Joyce is a newlywed. Everybody knows how she hates to waste money so nobody was too shocked when she introduced her eHarmony newlyweb on Facebook. How could she have just left her paid-for account lapse without getting full use? Her real world husband isn’t sure how he feels about his virtual counterpart.

Etymology: newlywed (a recently married person) + web (short for World Wide Web)

| Comments and Points

Created by: renzeb

Pronunciation: Ee-na-mohr-ij

Sentence:

Etymology: Enamor + Rage

| Comments and Points

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SI-ber-fo-mance

Sentence: Rhonda was heavily involved in cyberfaumance, carrying on multiple cyber 'affairs' with on line contacts whom she'd never actually met nor ever intended to meet.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'cyber' (a combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,”) 'faux' (fake, artificial) and 'romance' (a love affair, esp an intense and happy but short-lived affair involving young people)

| Comments and Points

Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: kuk old dis per

Sentence: Cuckoldispair seized his heart as he thrashed about the city; he was sure the downpour smelled like blood. Perhaps if he'd waited just a few more minutes...

Etymology: Cuckold + dispair

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

You have my admiration for tackling this awkward word. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:54:00

thanks, i try. - jadenguy, 2007-06-01: 10:15:00

I found it very tough today as well - this word really sums it up nicely - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 11:53:00

maybe you should have tried adultergate again? - jadenguy, 2007-06-01: 14:35:00

or maybe roderage - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 15:16:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: evthalia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: His emotions uncontrollably and rapidly changed like waves crashing to shore.

Etymology: emotion + fluctuation

| Comments and Points

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: eye-dull-ter-err

Sentence: While Jessica knew that Henry wasn't physically cheating on her, she saw him for the idulterer he was as he spent seven hours every night chatting with his email pal "Karen".

Etymology: adulterer + i-prefix popularized by apple electronics

| Comments and Points

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: trist-u-al

Sentence: Laura's trystual relationship was becoming more exciting than the real one she had with her husband, and she began to spend more and more time online. Her husband began to suspect that she might be having a virtual affair the night she called and said she'd be working late and wouldn't be home for supper, especially because she worked from home and the call came from her upstairs office.

Etymology: tryst: an agreement between lovers to meet at a certain place or time + virtual: existing in essence though not in fact

| Comments and Points

Created by: ngajoe

Pronunciation: Joh-dee-side

Sentence: After reading the Instant Messenger transcript between his girlfriend and someone named "SweetLove384", Em felt a cold wave of jodicide swell up in his heart, and he knew now that only his hunting rifle and a 4x scope could find a cure.

Etymology: "Jody" [fictional character in Army horror stories who steals the hearts of a soldier's loved ones during deployments.] + cide [Middle English, from Old French (from Latin -cīda, killer) and Latin -cīdium, killing, both from caedere, to strike, kill.]

| Comments and Points

Created by: kalieS

Pronunciation: Con-FLUH-VD

Sentence: As he caught his lover with another man, he became very confloved.

Etymology: Confused + Love = and confusion in love

| Comments and Points

Created by: sstarr99

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points