Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation.
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.
Chronoflamming
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: KROHN-oh-flam-ming
Sentence: Twila often mailed post-dated checks to the utility companies, just in case she was a few dollars short, which was still one of the more harmless ways she expressed her congenital need to engage in daily chronoflamming.
Etymology: Chrono- (time prefix) + flamming (trickery or deception)
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
a very chrono logical sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:13:00
----------------------------
Mudate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: MEW/date
Sentence: Like Joseph Stalin did with Russian history, Fred had to mudate his past. So Fred went through a transmudation, eliminating from his life all the dates and events which he didn't like, especially his first wife and their divorce. His transmudation was such a liberating experience he wrote a best seller self-help book "Mudate Your Way To Success and Happiness".
Etymology: mutate + date
Datetripper
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: date/tripper
Sentence: He was a datetripper - Sunday driver yeah - it took me so oh oh long to find out -but I found out - his chronology was the only one that mattered and that made him sing
Etymology: date (as in calendar) + day tripper
Fluxcapacitate
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: flux-ka-pass-eh-tate
Sentence: She should have seen it coming: His stringy bleached-white hair, his long trench coat, and his affinity for Deloreans should have been enough to warn her about his ability to fluxcapacitate his way out of an arguement.
Etymology: From the flux capacitor time travel mechanism made famous in "Back to the Future."
Gildspree
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: gild + spree
Sentence: Worried that his working-class roots, would be discovered, Bob felt that he needed a background makeover to take him to a top job at the blue-blood, dominated legal firm where he just started to work. Immediately, he set out on a gildspree to goldproof his future. First he changed his place of birth, then his late father's occupation and, finally, to add a bit more self-sparkle, put it around that his maternal grandmother was european royalty. A gildmonger he was, a skilled one, he thought, but would he find out the hard way that all that glitters may not be gold.
Etymology: gild, (OE): a thin layer of gold put on & spree (ON): to run freely..
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
One midassume that he had the golden touch - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:10:00
----------------------------
Calendangle
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: calen-dangle
Sentence: Chris always left me calendangling because he could always come up with an excuse for a much higher priority event that was on at the "same" time.
Etymology: calendar + dangle (like a telephone handset when the caller has run off)
Deloreanate
Created by: fastward
Pronunciation: delor eanate
Sentence: He tried to deloreanate his wedding date for tax purposes.
Etymology: A Delorean automobile was turned into a time machine.
Optimez
Created by: frostycharlie69
Pronunciation: Op-tee-mez
Sentence: I had to optimez the situation so as not to worry my mother.
Etymology: Merging of "time" and "optimize".
Datelyin
Created by: tatterdemalion
Pronunciation: dayt-LIE-in
Sentence: Dave relied on datelyin to get himself out of many a chronological conundrum.
Etymology: date + lying
Twistory
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: TWIHST-ur-ee
Sentence: Alex's girlfriend stormed out of the room, "I NEVER dated you, you are twistory to me!"
Etymology: twist + history + story
