Verboticisms

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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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: 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: porsche

Pronunciation: trans/sport/ting

Sentence: Mandy is seen every morning trancesporting her children to school. She's always amazed when she wakes up inthe driveway sans children.

Etymology: trance + transporting

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COMMENTS:

Many Mommies would like this feature in her car...good word - Nosila, 2011-02-17: 21:33:00

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Created by: darkXshadow

Pronunciation: som-ny-der-ive

Sentence: i was somnidriving the other day...

Etymology: somn means to sleep. drive means to convey in a vehicle.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hy ber navi gay ting

Sentence: Morphea was good at hibernavigating on her long commute home. She was there, but could never recall how she got home.

Etymology: Hibernating (be in an inactive or dormant state;Sleeping) & Navigating (direct to travel carefully and safely)

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Created by: chercherlalun

Pronunciation: zen pi lot

Sentence: Mary was a zenpilot. She had become one with the steering wheel

Etymology:

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Created by: brittmojo

Pronunciation: Non osis pilot

Sentence: The driver tended to be a nonosispilot.

Etymology: Non - not Osis- action Pilot- one who steers

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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: acarr23

Pronunciation: Sleep a tomo ney

Sentence: The driver suffers from sleepatomomney.

Etymology:

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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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