Verboticisms

Created by: Whittier

Pronunciation: koh-run-JAB-it-tayt

Sentence: Suzie sat in the bath so long, the mold began to corangeabitate her body

Etymology: cohabitate + orange

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Created by: kimbo123

Pronunciation: orange-you-scare

Sentence: Thousands of replicating fungi was oranguscare.

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Created by: svnfsvn

Pronunciation: fun gif iny

Sentence: fungifiny made me fall in the tub.

Etymology: fungi ephipiny

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: SHH-nopp-yew-lazz-umm

Sentence: Claire's first weekend at her boyfriend's apartment went well enough- until she attempted to shower. Comfortably wrapped in a plush monogrammed guest towel and armed with high-end pseudoscintillating hydrating bogusflavinoid SHAMpoo, as well as a small beaker of realpoo, Claire got one sexy foot into the shower and was stopped cold by a severe SCHNOPULASM. She choked down her revulsion like a shot of Southern Comfort and backed away in disgust, repelled by the matured colony of living pestilence she had almost touched. Supressing her gag reflex, she opened the window and gasped for air until her SCHNOPULASM receded enough for logic to regain a toehold on her cosmetic saturated brain. Claire quickly doused the entire shower stall with a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and fled from the deadly vapours for the relative safety of the bedroom and her industrial-sized bottle of generic booze. As Claire's brain slipped quietly into a comforting bath of ethyl alcohol, her SCHNOPULASM began to recede, but she knew that it just wouldn't work. If alcohol hadn't killed HER by now, what chance did it have against the hybrid orange slime just a few deadly feet away?

Etymology: No etymology. SCHNOPULASM is entirely fictitous and based upon the silliness of it's sound.

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SEVENTY BILLION to buy up BAD stuff so that people can get more credit to live beyond their means? Seems like a good idea. DOUBLE YOUR I.Q. OR NO MONEY BACK ? Duh.....okay. Sounds good to me. http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Tips/Network/network.html - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 11:58:00

http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Tips/Network/network.html - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 11:59:00

Rats! The link- it no fits..... - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 11:59:00

I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the defense budget and the Russians and crime in the street. All I know is first you['ve] got to get mad. You've got to say: 'I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more. I'm a human being, goddammit. My life has value. - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 12:01:00

A garden that is overgrown needs more nutrient, and not getting that, it dies off the rest and leaves only the strong. Your life has value, yes, but in the big picture, it is a cog. I predict a massive die off real soon, be it by a human hand or the indifferent shrug of mother nature. - zxvasdf, 2008-09-29: 12:51:00

I concur, zxvasdf. The Garden is a good one. First we have fall and winter. Then we have spring and summer again.I anticipate the great purge you speak of, for I, too know it is inevitable. I do not fear death, but I am enjoying as much life as has been alotted to me. The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new. He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray. Ars Longa Vita Brevis :) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 16:35:00

unforunately this is going to hurt everyone - when I forget to water only the weeds survive - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-29: 16:37:00

Weeds are only plants growing where YOU don't want them to. I don't really mean to expand the "grey area" to it's natural limit (if there is one), or to "push the envelope" of comments but i just have to say that it's great to see so many CREATIVE sentences employed with tame abandon. A fortnight ago there was a dearth of microstories posted here, and that's what i really look forward to reading as the midnight hour creeps slowly nearer each evening. VERBOTOMISTS- I salute you! - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 17:04:00

This is more like blogging than the blog itself. And I don't even know what a blog looks like. - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 17:14:00

It takes guts to invent a word right out of thin air. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-30: 17:41:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ewww reeek aahh

Sentence: the ewwreeeka moment in the shower usually occurs backwards; AAAh (standing under the shower), Reek (that strange smell you notice which makes you open your eyes), then the Ewww as you see the onward marching gunk!

Etymology: ewww , reek, eureka.

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No no ewwwreeeka - I smell like a field of wildflowers - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-31: 10:47:00

ewwwtiful! - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-31: 18:38:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dis-fuhn-guh-sting

Sentence: When Sally moved in with her boyfriend she found that he never really cleaned his bathroom. The shower curtain was so disfungusting that she made him take it down and clean the tile with a power washer.

Etymology: disgust ( strong distaste; nausea; loathing) + fungus (mushrooms, molds, mildews, smuts, rusts, and yeasts, and classified in the kingdom Fungi)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: grīmsēn

Sentence: Judy thought she was taking a simple shower. Little did she know that she had stumbled into a grimescene. The yellow tape should have given her a clue.

Etymology: grime (dirt ingrained on the surface of something) + scene (the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred)

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COMMENTS:

CSI - Creepy Shower Invaders! Good word - Nosila, 2010-02-26: 07:57:00

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Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: fuhng-gast

Sentence: As he leapt from the diving board Leonard was overcome with funghast when he looked down to see the water in the pool was a pea-soup green color.

Etymology: Fungus: Latin; fungus, mushroom; perh. akin to Gk spóngos, sphóngos + Aghast: Old English; gǣstan to frighten

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: slug/ni/fi/cance

Sentence: The slugnificance of the moment escaped her as she slipped on its trail.

Etymology: slug + significance

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Why are slugs considered more repelling than snails? Does the quality known as "cuteness" have any intrinsic value in the cosmos? - metrohumanx, 2008-09-29: 16:56:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: spor-rer

Sentence: Initially, Leigh thought it was peach shampoo, but when she reached down to further examine the orange stuff clinging to the shower curtain, she recoiled in sporror.

Etymology: spore, horror

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COMMENTS:

spooky - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-31: 10:49:00

I once experienced sporror but it involved a Scot in a kilt - petaj, 2007-11-01: 04:08:00

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