Verboticisms

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: day-shif-ty

Sentence: Nance discovered just how dayshifty Max had been when she found his erasure marks on her calendar. "No wonder I can't remember my vacation," she cried. "I was here -- but where was Max?"

Etymology: Day:(as in calendar) + shift: to alter position or place + shifty: displaying deceitful character; personality thatt demonstrates frequent changes or variations.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dayt/trip/er

Sentence: He was a datetripper - Sunday driver yeah - it took me so long to find out -his chronology was the only one that mattered and that made him sing

Etymology: daytripper + date

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hak dayt

Sentence: Who knew when computers were invented that we could illegally invade people's computer systems and change our lives. Because I could hackdate my employer's network, I improved my performance scores from last review; gave myself a bigger raise and had warnings placed in an enemy colleague's file. And best of all, I am now actually only 29...oh, no, I am going to have to work there longer now...Bummer!

Etymology: Hack (fix a computer program piecemeal until it works;electronically invade a computer site or system) & Backdate (make effective from an earlier date)

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Created by: kyotonils

Pronunciation: wee'•zel•wohr'•ping

Sentence: Don't bother telling the judge you never got the ticket in the mail. Weaselwarping never works.

Etymology: Weasel (sneaky, devious, as in "weasel words") + warp (time)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: hiss - tor - ted

Sentence: When Elvira related the times and dates of her whereabouts during the month of October, it seemed she had historted everything so that she would not be arrested.

Etymology: history, distorted

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COMMENTS:

Was she areested for histortion? - Nosila, 2009-09-01: 12:03:00

histerical - mrskellyscl, 2009-09-01: 15:11:00

and the rest is....hystery!! - mweinmann, 2009-09-02: 12:52:00

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Created by: mbacon

Pronunciation: Krono mawr fox

Sentence: Betty chronomorphosed her birthdate so she could get the senior's discount

Etymology: Chrono meaning time, and morphose, from metamorphose meaning to transform

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: tem-pus-op-to-my

Sentence: After a week he had a tempusoptomy, and it was like that night one week earlier was entirely her fault.

Etymology: tempus -time + optometry - knowledge of the eye(vision)

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: time swapping

Sentence: i´m not lying, i´m only timeswapping

Etymology: time and swapping as in changing

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COMMENTS:

Hey Josje, This word is terrific - wordmeister, 2007-02-09: 09:49:00

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: date-munge-ing

Sentence: Bill and Janet were datemunging so that their children wouldn't figure out when they were conceived.

Etymology: date + munge

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: Kron-ill-logic

Sentence: When Dave found tickets to the opera in Jill's purse, he quickly ran out and puchased cheap, nosebleed seat tickets, to a football game, telling Jill he had his tickets first. Dave got out of going to the opera due to the chronillogic order that the tickets were purchased.

Etymology: chronologic/illogic

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COMMENTS:

good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-31: 09:49:00

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