Verboticisms

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: steer + ess + ta

Sentence: Sometimes on the way home I take a little steeresta - I've taken this drive so much I can literally do it in my sleep.

Etymology: steer + siesta

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Created by: letterati

Pronunciation: huh? cart-horse-mode

Sentence: He was so mad, he switched into carthorsemode the rest of the way

Etymology: er, old English farming practice?

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Created by: Nuwanda

Pronunciation: nap-a-gate

Sentence: After years of working the graveyard shift, Joel was highly skilled at napigating between his home and workplace. So successful in fact, that after retiring, he would sometimes awake with a start to find himself trying to unlock his old office.

Etymology: Navigate plus nap.

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COMMENTS:

I hate it when I go to work when I don\'t have to. - artr, 2009-09-30: 14:43:00

Love it... - Nosila, 2009-10-01: 01:30:00

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

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Created by: username

Pronunciation: sôk-rāt-ĭk-hĭp-nōs-ätō-pûr-ā-shən

Sentence: When Paige is on a long straight road and did not get enough sleep, she uses socratichypnosautoperation believing that she will remain safe.

Etymology: socratic- derived from the Greek philosopher Socrates meaning "having safe might" Hypnos- the Greek root hypnos means "sleep" auto- shortened/derived from automobile meaning "automobile" operation- to operate

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: car-voy-ance

Sentence: Clair used her extra sensory powers of carvoyance to get through the last 15 miles of car avoidance because she had been driving all night and was going into a nod.

Etymology: car + clairvoyance: second-sight, ESP -- to be able to see in a trance like state into the world beyond the perception of the normal senses

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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: DGRosetti

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: snooze-con-troll

Sentence: Jill drove to work each day on snoozecontrol, barely aware of having made the trip and having no memory of any part of the 20 minute drive.

Etymology: snooze (half awake or less) + control (like cruise control only while in a semi-snooze)

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I like it! Gonna start tomorrow morning! - allwise, 2007-03-13: 05:00:00

Absolutely brilliant. - ErWenn, 2007-03-19: 01:46:00

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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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