Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: nap-lap

Sentence: Joyce has driven back and forth to work so many times that her car practically drives itself there. She gets her Fiesta onto Siesta Blvd., puts the car into snooze control and takes a naplap. On more than one occasion somebody has woken her in her parking spot without her remembering the drive.

Etymology: nap (light sleep) + lap (orbit, circuit)

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Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: Kip Va Na

Sentence: Ned had become so enraptured in his 5:30 kipvana that he did not hear his name called on the radio and failed to claim the $100,000 prize.

Etymology: Kip= Australian for nap. Vana= A great rock band or the second part of Nir

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COMMENTS:

Kip Kip Hooray for your word! - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 01:32:00

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Kar-varh-na

Sentence: After 15 years of solid driving experience, Betty had finally reached carvana - the awareness that her car and the traffic are ONE... and everything else is maya, illusion...

Etymology: Car + nirvana. Nirvana: the highest spiritual plane according to Buddhism. (Maya, btw, is the Hare Krishna (Hindu sect) word for illusion.)

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COMMENTS:

Everything else is illusion? Sounds like carvananity... - wordmeister, 2007-03-13: 15:35:00

I thought so too...though that's not why I eventually rejected further exploration... - Discoveria, 2007-03-13: 18:03:00

I'm impressed with your Hindu and Buddist knowledge. like the word too. - erasmus, 2007-03-14: 05:23:00

I like this one! - jedijawa, 2007-03-14: 10:01:00

erasmus - thanks. No-one would suspect that I had to google nirvana for a definition...;D - Discoveria, 2007-03-14: 11:48:00

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Created by: victy

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology: navi-navigation... safo-safety....cle-vehicle

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: trans port

Sentence: her new method of tranceport was more incarcoma than carcinoma, but was nonetheless fairly life threatening.

Etymology: trance, transport

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COMMENTS:

oohh very good. - erasmus, 2007-03-13: 07:01:00

Love it! I totally tranceported this weekend, on my way home from the bar. - Sketchy, 2007-03-13: 21:45:00

That's a great combination of concepts. - jedijawa, 2007-03-14: 10:03:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kroos - snuz - ing

Sentence: Linda went cruisnoozing to the store to pick up antacids after her atrocious all night vigil which had left her absolutely exhausted.

Etymology: cruise, snoozing

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Created by: Railrod

Pronunciation: Hyper- Trans- Somnia

Sentence: F.J. experienced hypertranssomnia while driving to his grandmother's house that he had been to thousands of times.

Etymology: hyper, above + trans, across + somnia, sleep

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: snore-toe-pie-lut

Sentence: she found herself constantly brakedancing while her dad was driving on snortopilot

Etymology: snore, autopilot

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COMMENTS:

thats quite a funny word. - erasmus, 2007-03-13: 06:36:00

the descriptive use is just as funny. (I have good visualisation skills.) - sunny09, 2007-03-13: 23:17:00

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Created by: bigmeat

Pronunciation: auto-somn-ia

Sentence: Sue was experiencing autosomnia on her way home from the bakery yesterday

Etymology: Auto-Self, Somnia- Sleep

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COMMENTS:

How creative! - bigmeat, 2011-02-17: 11:32:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: strādär

Sentence: Jim gets up WAY too early in the morning to get to work. While driving down the highway there are stretches where the road is boringly familiar and music on the radio is sort of relaxing (less head banging than usual). He may start to nod off. That little voice in his head says **The road is straight. There is almost no traffic. Go ahead, close your eyes for just a second**. This is when he relies on stradar, that internal sense that the movement has shifted from linear to lateral. If it is severe, it will startle him enough to put a shot of adrenalin into his bloodstream and complete the trip with his head upright. If not, he will open all the windows, crank up the radio and sing along to to some song he may not even like all that much at the top of his lungs. Jim*s friends worry.

Etymology: stray (move without a specific purpose or by mistake) + radar (a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are reflected off the object back to the source)

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