Verboticisms

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: zo + nav + ih + gate

Sentence: I've gone this way so many times I can zonavigate it with my eyes closed. Which is how I usually do it.

Etymology: zone + navigate

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Created by: kasaj

Pronunciation:

Sentence: i was driving on pseudoautocruise when that truck hit me from behind

Etymology: pseudo=false

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Created by: skepsis

Pronunciation: slay-kin

Sentence: I was able to get to work in a slaken state without causing any accidents (that I can remember).

Etymology: sleep and awaken

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Created by: caffreyc

Pronunciation: Death+control

Sentence: Driving on deathcontrol is perfectly safe, relying on the third eye to protect you and saving a great deal of energy

Etymology: If cruise control regulates speed, then deathcontrol is your way of regulating the time of your death.

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Created by: noztril

Pronunciation: yo - dōz

Sentence: The flight attendant announced the red-eye was piloted by two of the most gifted practitioners of yodoz.

Etymology: yo - to indicate attentiveness + doze - To sleep lightly and intermittently

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Created by: trioptimum

Pronunciation: crooz

Sentence: She fastened the seat belt, cued up her favourite album, and prepared for the zen-like bliss of the morning crooze.

Etymology: snooze (a light sleep) + cruise (to travel at a moderate speed)

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Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: trip-sen-den-tl

Sentence: When Ken arrived at work he realized he had been in a tripscendental state the entire way.

Etymology: trip - (travel, journey) transcendental - (supernatural, abstract)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: trip-no-siss

Sentence: after years of taking the kids to their early morning swimming lessons, it became easy for me to get there via tripnosis

Etymology: trip, hypnosis

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i submitted tranceport thinking i was all clever but then when i checked on the words that came up last time for this definition i saw that tranceport had been done... - rikboyee, 2007-09-04: 03:23:00

good word. Defines a lot of travelling situations. You hae my vote. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-04: 23:34:00

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Created by: HarryLimeJuice

Pronunciation: aw-toh-KNOW-ses

Sentence: Stacy had a major case of autonosis when, driving from Denver to Atlanta, she ended up without gas in an empty parking lot.

Etymology: Derived from the slang for automobile, or auto, and the cognitive state suffix -nosis.

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: ka-ro-BOT-ik

Sentence: Those who didn't know Bob well, thought that his driving seemed a bit jaloopy. But Roxie knew that driving with Bob was autopian. For he was mild-hearted towards mergeicians and courteous to cyclopaths, while driving safely with a carobotic awareness that allowed him to drive without watching the road.

Etymology: Blend of car & robotic: to act like a robot or automaton. Jaloopy (jalopy & loopy); Autopian, Mergeician & Cyclopath from Richard Glover's "The Dag's Dictionary."

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COMMENTS:

Some cool words in that sentence - petaj, 2007-09-05: 03:10:00

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