Verboticisms

Created by: nohidden

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Created by: bwesterlind

Pronunciation: De-Sehn-il-If-Eye

Sentence: v: As they years passed he continued to progressively desenilify. n: The man in the nursing home was full of desenilify

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: PEE-ter-pahn-DE-MO-knee-yum

Sentence: As George saw the silver hairs slowly overtake his once raven colored head, he went into a sort of peterpandemonium -an unsighlty display involving a bottle of Grecian Formula, a vapid 20 something girlfirend and digging his old Member's Only jacket out of the attic.

Etymology: Peter Pan + Pandemonium

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Funny. - hyperborean, 2012-10-17: 23:39:00

Funny story to a really good word - DrWebsterIII, 2012-10-26: 14:33:00

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Created by: pungineer

Pronunciation: meth/thooz/al/eyes

Sentence: Henry felt as fit as a fiddle, since retiring he had taken up hangliding, white water rafting and book keeping, he felt as young as a kitten. His wife felt like she was going through a strange second stage of motherhood as she was keeping Henry in adult incontinence drawers so he could do all his activities with confidence... Her health care provider told her it was a classic case of methuselism.

Etymology: Methuselah - really old fictional character + ise - overused verbotomy suffix thanks for Ozziebob's inspiritional sentence...

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very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:25:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: NAP-ee-ahrk

Sentence: Bob yearned to be young again and the leader of the pack; but instead this greying sexageranium [sic] - he certainly was "wilting" fast - was doomed only to nappiarch in a palzheimer's paradise in dwinetime with fellow mewlthuselahs

Etymology: NAPPY: garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [syn: diaper] & PATRIARCH: A very old, venerable man; an elder; Also used figuratively. DWINETIME: dwine OE (dwinan). to wasteor pine away, fade, languish, & wither, wane. MEWLTHUSELAH (mewl): to cry, as a young child & methuselah.

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great blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:22:00

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Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: saoor griipz

Sentence: Henderson was our greatest success in the field of unoldenization. Degerontigising is not without it's foibles. The greatest shock comes when they lose their will to vote and decide to rebel against the man, but that's just sour gripes from a lack of social security checks.

Etymology: sour grapes + gripe

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unoldenization sounds good to me - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 12:29:00

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: ret trow tour ing

Sentence: Herbert found himself retroturing into an 60 year old in the day care center.

Etymology: retro - looking back uring - the second half of maturing

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: tom and jer ree at rix

Sentence: Thomas & Gerald were twin brothers who raised hell in their youth;had successful careers;raised families;outlived their spouses and now lived in the Ilk of Amnesia Nursing Home. They were now living the lives of tomandjerryatrics.

Etymology: Tom & Jerry (cartoon series about Tom Cat & Jerry Mouse;a commonplace phrase for youngsters indulging in riotous behaviour in 19th-century London) & Geriatrics (branch of medicine devoted to the aged and their illnesses)

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: reh - ver - rayzh

Sentence: The reverage was worse than anyone's ever seen. His teeth fell out and it was the last of his pork diet.

Etymology: reverse + age + leverage

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Created by: sineadf1

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