Verboticisms

Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: smyt-less

Sentence: Her hands gripped the chain in front of her as she realized that her cab driver was smiteless.

Etymology: smite ... sounds like sightless

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Created by: ChrisCarrk

Pronunciation: Tri/eye/ing

Sentence: He was trieying to watch the kids and the road.

Etymology: try+triple+eye+ing

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: risk-ayn-gel

Sentence: Jamie thought he was promoting safety by watching his passengers more than the road, but he was really a riskangel in search of an accident.

Etymology: risk (the element of danger) + angel (one who means well)

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Created by: kevinrio

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Created by: babel

Pronunciation: vee-thick-u-lar

Sentence: Bob's habit of checking his rabbits had their seatbelts on was somewhat vethicular.

Etymology: vehicular + thick

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Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: car-ner-vi-us

Sentence: Bobby's new girl friend wondered why he always stared at her lap when driving, until she realized that it was carnervious habit and that he was just checking her seatbelt.

Etymology: car + nervous

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Created by: msokoloffster

Pronunciation: Splur - ter

Sentence: It was impossible for Carlos not to splurtter with two little boys in the back seat.

Etymology: Unknown...

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Created by: jboehnker

Pronunciation: hip' oh crin spek' shun

Sentence: Ironically enough, it was Bob's unfastened safety belt that allowed him to escape the car just before his grandfather drove it off the cliff during a bout of hypocrinspection.

Etymology: hypocrisy + inspection

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: fass-tiddy-ot

Sentence: Joe, fastidiot par excellence, was overly picky about safety measures on his journeys, yet managed to pick up a number of speeding fines

Etymology: fast (velocity of a car) + idiot (one who makes errors of judgment) + fastidious (excessively particular)

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Created by: Chistinalove

Pronunciation: Pair - ent - I - tis

Sentence: Once you have a few kids, you will be an expert parentitise.

Etymology: Parentise - to be a father or mother who must have all eyes on their children

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