Verboticisms

Created by: airliebee

Pronunciation: re-pew-bess

Sentence: Fred had worked his whole life, right up until his 86th birthday when the symptoms began. Repubescophobia had gripped him at 55 and refused to let go. His family had called it for what it was, just getting old, but Fred had stoically worked long and hard to stave off the inevitable. Now, he looked hopefully up at the doctor for an answer, but he quickly saw, with what remained of his vision, that her face said it all. He was going to repubesce, and there was nothing he could do. His repubescence was upon him, and there was no miracle drug on the planet that could stop repuberty. Fred was doomed, so he resigned himself to his fate and asked the pretty young doctor for a lollipop.

Etymology: re-: prefix, used to indicate repetition, or with the meaning again, back or backward to indicate withdrawal or backward motion. + pubescence: to arrive, or begin puberty (the beginning of adolescence when the sex glands become functional)

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Created by: mdmquincy

Pronunciation: day- drool

Sentence: The dapper gentleman daydrooled as he saw the hot young lass eye him disdainfully.

Etymology: Me

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: youth + an + azh + ah

Sentence: Heck, I don't remember that, I've been undergoing youthanasia.

Etymology: Well, we've all heard about Ponce deLeon and his fountain of youth, maybe this is it!

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dädlər

Sentence: LLoyd may be retired but he is still very active. He is part of a group that power walks the local shopping mall each morning. He hates it when he gets stuck behind a doddler.

Etymology: dodder (tremble or totter, typically because of old age) + toddler (a young child who is just beginning to walk)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dee/age/er/ate

Sentence: The alzheimer's disease caused his brain to deagerate at a rate much quicker than his family had anticipated.

Etymology: DEAGERATE - verb - from DE (added to verbs to imply reversal) + AGE + DEGENERATE (to diminish in quality)

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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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COMMENTS:

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

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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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COMMENTS:

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

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: yooth-duh-kay

Sentence: Grandpa was suffering from youthdecay, which was causing a severe case of glumdisease

Etymology: youth, decay, tooth decay

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COMMENTS:

That can have nasty complications with longperiodontitis. - petaj, 2007-06-21: 03:50:00

A cavortee is fairly unlikely, i suppose - galwaywegian, 2007-06-21: 06:16:00

No doubt he'd eventually develop gingivigoritis. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 08:05:00

Not if he uses youthwash. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 09:43:00

maybe an orthodontryst with some dental floosie would help - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 10:42:00

Sounds like orally good time. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:13:00

(insert oral roberts joke here). - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 11:24:00

Very well. Grandpa had to settle for oral, because he left his roberts at home. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 20:13:00

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Created by: grasshopper

Pronunciation: you/ under/yre/ning

Sentence: I had to explain to my 10 yar old that her grandmother was not living vicariously but younderyerning.

Etymology: younder/days gone by, yearning/to want badly = younderyearning

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Created by: Foghawk

Pronunciation: uh-BEAR-uh-joo-ven-ize

Sentence: Martin had the meaning of "careful what you wish for" driven home to him quite forcefully when a boring but admittedly good life in the retirement home was suddenly switched with painful hours in a seedy daycare after, one week in late December, he abruptly aberrajuvenized.

Etymology: From "aberrant" and the Latin root "juvenis", denoting youth.

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