Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ster/oid/stance

Sentence: The sports writer accused Joe, the star athlete of using illegal drugs, but Joe took the steroidstance saying that he wouldn't dignify that question with an answer as he hurried off to his personal trainer for a boost.

Etymology: steroid + happenstance

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COMMENTS:

Sure is a lot of steroidstancing in the sports world! Good sentence! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 19:39:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /uh-REST-tuh-nee/

Sentence: Officer Hurley told us an ironic story about a known car thief who had apparently lost the keys to his own car, and was arrested when the police found him hotwiring it. One week later, arrestiny prevailed, and he was caught hotwiring a car he didn't actually own.

Etymology: blend of Arrest - into legal custody (from Latin, restāre "to stand still") & Destiny - inevitable course of events (from Latin, dēstināre "determine")

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COMMENTS:

Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-19: 15:33:00

Great etymoology and blending! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 19:30:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ack - suh - meant

Sentence: Lowell was sure he was being honest when he denied the accusations made against him and only later learned that he had committed the offense by accimeant.....accidentally on purpose.

Etymology: accident + meant

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COMMENTS:

hehehe! - galwaywegian, 2008-02-19: 09:21:00

very good - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-19: 11:13:00

Terrific! It will become part of my vocabulary for accidentally on purpose! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 11:49:00

Another clever blend. - Tigger, 2008-02-19: 20:58:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: profet/sorry/al

Sentence: Because he was a prophetional player his comments tended to be prophetsorial.

Etymology: prophet + professorial + professional

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COMMENTS:

Like your originality! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 11:43:00

Close to the mark. Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-19: 15:31:00

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Created by: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Co-in-sih-chee-t

Sentence: Many atheletes are worried that the current wave of generic accusations of drug enhancements will uncover their real cheating activities in a case of coincicheat.

Etymology: Coincidence- Spontaneous simultaneous occurence. / Cheat- To gain advantage by illegitimate activity.

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COMMENTS:

Write on the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 12:00:00

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: me - ah - cul - prit

Sentence: "My lunch was in a white sack. It's missing from the fridge. Did you take it?" said Trudy. "It wasn't me! As you can see, I'm eating the yogurt, the apple, and the iced tea I brought. " Erica replied. Trudy took the last brown lunch sack, not white like hers, from the fridge. She opened it. As she set the yogurt, apple and iced tea on the table in front of Erica she said, "Oh, we brought the same lunch in different sacks! You did take my lunch! So now, I will take yours! When it comes to stealing lunches, we are both mea culprits!

Etymology: A blend of culprit and mea culpa. Culprit: which carries the double meaning of both an accused person and a guilty person. Mea Culpa: means "accepting guilt." And of course the admission of guilt in bad grammar "me a culprit!"

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COMMENTS:

Neat word. While reading your sentence, a previous submission, from a few months ago, came to mind - Sandwicheroo. - Tigger, 2008-02-19: 13:04:00

since Trudy deliberately ate the wrong lunch I would say she's guilty of being the meamaximaculprit - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-19: 14:29:00

great word! - libertybelle, 2008-02-19: 14:57:00

Another great word and entertaining sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-19: 15:27:00

Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-19: 18:14:00

Exquisite!!! - Mustang, 2008-02-19: 23:16:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: a rayn chek

Sentence: George had been fed up with his wife's suspicious questions about his working late every night...afterall he was just taking care of business. Wait till he told his mistresses about the latest arraigncheck she'd just given him!

Etymology: arraign (to accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy) & raincheck (a promise or a commitment to do something later)

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COMMENTS:

clever! - libertybelle, 2008-02-19: 09:16:00

love it! - galwaywegian, 2008-02-19: 09:20:00

Ingenious! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 11:57:00

Spot on, Nosila! Just wait until that cheater George gets the bill for this 'arraigncheck'. - Tigger, 2008-02-19: 13:12:00

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Created by: Banky

Pronunciation: in-ad-vehr-ih-toss

Sentence: Midway through the master bedroom closet Hank found the diary. He and his wife had been cleaning out his childhood home for three days now, throwing out grade school spelling assignments, and obituaries of every person in the small Arkansas town that his mother had ever known. He began leafing through the journal, hoping that he might begin to understand more about what his estranged mother was like in her youth, and realize how she had become the dour and world-beaten woman that he had buried not a week ago. Engrossed in how she had met his father and their courtship through the Korean war, he paused, with a look of abject terror at the next entry. It described the birth of a baby girl named Elizabeth Marie, who had been given up for adoption in that very town. "How's it going in there, honey?" rang Liz's voice down the hallway. Hank snapped out of his trance, "Uh...it's...it's okay. Sweetheart, what children's home did you grow up at?". A long pause deafened Hank, and a quizzical "St. Joseph's?" answered. The pit in Hank's stomach grew harder, and trickle of cold sweat wound down his back as he found the name on the page. Every time his college friends had taunted him about Arkansians and incest replayed in his mind, their inadveritas jokes hardening the lump in his throat.

Etymology: inadvertent - unintentional, veritas - Latin for "truth"

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COMMENTS:

Shockingly, heartbreaking sentence! Great etymology! Great creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 11:46:00

This word's right on the money. - ErWenn, 2008-02-19: 19:03:00

Banky, your stories are as good as your verbots... better even. Very entertaining! - Tigger, 2008-02-19: 21:00:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈfɪb/

Sentence: One can unfib accidentally: "I unfibbed my fake broken leg by tripping on the crutches I was using for verisimilitude." One is occasionally required to unfib on purpose: "I told her that we were going to go bowling because I thought that would make her stay home, but when she pulled out her personalized ball and custom-fit shoes, I was forced to go and unfib the whole thing."

Etymology: From un- + fib

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COMMENTS:

Sometimes people tell what they think are lies when they are actually telling the truth. While this is often referred to as "unfibbing", technically "malfibbing" would be more correct. - ErWenn, 2008-02-19: 10:31:00

Fibulous! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 11:39:00

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Created by: leemarquis

Pronunciation: Accuse - e - dent

Sentence: John accusidented Fred of smashing a headlight of his car. As Fred left and drove away in a hurry, he backed into John's car and smashed a headlight.

Etymology: Wrongly accused of something which you then do later by accident.

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-19: 12:14:00

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