Verboticisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: meta/mum/for/sis

Sentence: When her kids rolled their eyes at her comments she realized the metamomphosis was complete.

Etymology: metamorphosis + mom

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Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: parent-all-eyes-ation

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: bee-got-it

Sentence: When I found myself beginning a sentence with the phrase "Ya know, when I was your age...", it was clearly evident that I had begotit.

Etymology: begot, "got it" (realization)

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: pare/ent/lell/ism

Sentence: There was a definite parentllelism the first time he did a comb over.

Etymology: parent + parallelism (similarity)

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Created by: annieb

Pronunciation: Pa-rent-i-ci-tis

Sentence: I've got a bad case of parenticitis - I'm turning into my mother!

Etymology: mixture of parent and -itis

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: pach-uh-REY-shuhn

Sentence: Cindy's realization of her inevitable paturation came with the consternation of the maladministration of her Haitian vacation.

Etymology: pat- + maturation

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Created by: rahullotli

Pronunciation: par-tyak-parte

Sentence: John be a god child and stop this partyakparte

Etymology: konkani

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: trans/hor/ri/fi/cation

Sentence: It was a moment of total transhorrification when he realized he was more like mom than mom.

Etymology: transmogrification (convert, transform, or change)+ horror + horrific

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COMMENTS:

perfect for the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-02: 11:02:00

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Created by: evthalia

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: dee-en-hey

Sentence: experiencing d.n.hey is a rite of passage

Etymology: DNA, Hey!

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: e(ə)rbôl

Sentence: When Jared took a new job he felt the need to get a shorter haircut for the first time in years. The next morning, as he looked in the mirror he was startled to see his father's face. His reaction can best be described as an heirball, replete with a strong gag reflex and some of those sounds his cat makes in the middle of the night.

Etymology: heir (a person inheriting and continuing the legacy of a predecessor) + hairball (A hairball is a small collection of hair or fur formed in the stomach of animals primarily cats)

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-13: 15:03:00

Cute word - Nosila, 2009-07-14: 22:00:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: ee-pah-PAH-fuhn-ee

Sentence: The grey hair nearly brought Alex to an epapaphany, but the traces of acne brought him back to his senses.

Etymology: epiphany + papa

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Pro-jen-eh-tay-shun

Sentence: I was mystified and horrified when I realized that my progenitation was of neither of my parents but of Arthur, my dog.

Etymology: Progenitor (parent) + transformation / transmutation (a change)

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COMMENTS:

shouldn't that be transmuttation - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-02: 19:36:00

hmm, true, or at least transfurmation - ziggy41, 2007-07-02: 23:45:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: trans/hor/ri/fi/kay/shun

Sentence: The transhorrification took place when he realized that he was more mom than mom.

Etymology: transmogrification (to transform) + horror

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COMMENTS:

Must be the horromoms... - jrogan, 2009-07-14: 23:45:00

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Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: THRESH-skold

Sentence: Mary was in the middle of critizing her son's eating habits when she hit the threshscold; running screaming to the bathroom.

Etymology: Threshold and scold.

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COMMENTS:

wasn't that a Moody Blues album "On the Threshcold of a Scream" ? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-02: 11:01:00

I can honestly say that I've never heard of that band or that album, but it is unfortunate that it's not as original as I thought it was. - Lapper, 2007-07-07: 23:50:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: morf an itee

Sentence: When that little devil, Lucifer Jones, starting acting up in school, his aunt realized that his morphanity was inevitable. Although she had raised him to be a good Christian boy, he was taking on more and more of his deceased parents' traits. There was hardly a day now that he had not broken a commandment or two, her nephew from Hell!

Etymology: morph (change into something else) & orphan (one without parents) & profanity (vulgar or irreverent speech or action) & vanity (feelings of excessive pride)

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: bread-morf

Sentence: As she wondered why she had so many undesireable traits, it suddenly occurred to her that bredmorphing had taken place.

Etymology: bred + morph

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: an - ses - tri - al

Sentence: Seeing his face in the mirror and the hearing the phrases spill out of his mouth was an ancestrial experience for Larry. It was spooky how much he was beginning to look and sound like his dad.

Etymology: ancestral, trial

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: klahy-mahn

Sentence: This is the climan of my life, and I don't dare spoil it by shaving all my hair so I'll look like myself.

Etymology: climax + man

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Jen-eh-shock

Sentence: Looking into the mirror, Billy experienced a mild wave of geneshock as his father cheerfully waved back.

Etymology: Genetics+shock

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: sun - stun - d

Sentence: Seth was sonstunned when he heard himself repeating the phrases his father had said during his childhood. In a moment of revelation he recognized that he was turning into his dad.....

Etymology: stunned (overcome as with astonishment or disbelief), son

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Created by: blondibabi121692

Pronunciation: oh crap hood

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: patrimorpiphany /ˌpætɹəmɔɹˈpɪfəni/ matrimorpiphany /ˌmætɹəmɔɹˈpɪfəni/

Sentence: I sort of expected to turn into my parents eventually, but I'm quickly approaching 30 with no patrimorpiphany in sight.

Etymology: patri- (father) or matri- (mother) morph- (change) + epiphany

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I don't have nearly the work ethic of either of my parents, and that doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon. - ErWenn, 2007-07-02: 00:17:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: meta/mum/for/sis

Sentence: When her kids rolled their eyes at her comments she realized the metamomphosis was complete.

Etymology: met+ a + mom + metamorphosis

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COMMENTS:

Been there, done that. Now I get the pleasure of turning into my grandmother. Great word. - mrskellyscl, 2009-07-13: 08:22:00

Too true! - Nosila, 2009-07-14: 22:01:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: mee as maa

Sentence: a terrifying measma occurred when she heard her own recorded message and thought briefly that she had phoned her mother's number, which was unlikely since she hadn't spoken to her since the morning of her graduation three decades ago. It was apparent that she was becoming aparent

Etymology: me as ma, miasma as in terrible odour

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Gets it. - Clayton, 2007-07-02: 15:12:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: rel-a-tiv-a-tion

Sentence: Chuck had a relativation that he had morphed into his father when he told little Chuckie to pull his finger.

Etymology: relative: kin; family + revelation: to reveal; enlightenment; to experience a moment of awareness of divine truth

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Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: mis-e-gen-er-ay-shun

Sentence: As the "Big Four-Oh" approached, Harold began to notice the thinning hair, drooping jowels and vacant expression that in his mind characterized both his father and grandfather. "Maybe," he thought "I could stave off this miscegeneration if I were to leave home!"

Etymology: miscegenation + generation

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: Air + apparent

Sentence: Suddenly it was all too clear, I saw my father's face in the mirror, and in that moment of heirapparent, I swooned to the ground.

Etymology: The really cool thing about this one for me is that it contains my last name internally.

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COMMENTS:

Hello Mr/Ms Rap, or is it Mr/Ms Ira, or is it Mr/Ms Ppa, or is it Mr/Ms Ir, or is it Mr/Ms Ra, or is it Mr/Ms Arent, or is it Mr/Ms Pp, or is it Mr/Ms Appa, or is it Mr/Ms Par, or is it Mr/Ms Irapp, or ....... - Stevenson0, 2007-07-02: 15:50:00

All of those and you juuuust missed! It's "Rapp." - Osomatic, 2007-07-03: 13:45:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: DAD-line

Sentence: The Dadline had just passed and Kelly came to the realization that he was a mummyograph, rather than a patercopy.

Etymology: Dad + deadline

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COMMENTS:

I'm momligated to think that this may take some dadjustment on Kelly's part. - Clayton, 2007-07-02: 08:49:00

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