Verboticisms

Created by: elcanyonazo

Pronunciation: s-nur-k

Sentence: some weirdo just tried to snurk an upskirt when i walked downstair

Etymology: sneak

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: smɑːtːʃɒt

Sentence: Buster became very swift with the old 1:2, or was it 4:3? It didn't matter, the smartshot was another knockout.

Etymology: Smart : Clever like a phone, ring like a good verbotomy word. Shot : Photograph, perhaps cheap. Also to strike a blow, esp. in boxing.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: crypt/pic 

Sentence: Cryptpics are showing up all over MySpace and Facebook with the incredible improvement of cell phone cameras and the surreptitious manner in people are taking them.

Etymology: CRYPTPIC - noun from CRYPTIC (secret) + PIC (picture)

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COMMENTS:

like it... - mweinmann, 2009-02-06: 08:16:00

excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:55:00

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: ho cuss foh cuss

Sentence: Len's covert cell phone hocusfocus makes him a real shudderbug.

Etymology: Hocus Pocus, Focus. Hocus Pocus - a trickery. Focus - 1. Camera adjustment to obtain a sharper, clearer photo.

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COMMENTS:

Was difficult to chose between these two verbotomies. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 00:37:00

Very clever...two for the price of one! - Mustang, 2009-02-06: 07:18:00

Wonderful play on words....hocusfocus or focuspocus....both say it all... - mweinmann, 2009-02-06: 08:14:00

very nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:56:00

Good word...lens itself to many ideas. He may end up being framed if he has any more exposure! - Nosila, 2009-02-06: 22:27:00

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Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: In-cahg-foe-toe

Sentence: Any time Jane would see something she thought was odd, she would whip out her cell phone and snap an incogphoto.

Etymology: Combination of "Incog" from incognito - with one's identity sealed; and "photo".

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COMMENTS:

Excellent - TJayzz, 2009-02-06: 14:15:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: pickt - ah - boo

Sentence: Maurice is going to get roughed up one of these days... He goes down the street playing pictaboo with his cell phone. I am sure that if his subjects could see all of the candid, unflattering and intrusive photos that he is taking, they would be horrified.

Etymology: Picture + taboo + play on the phrase "peek a boo" >>> Picture (a visual representation (of an object,scene or person ) Taboo (an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion ) Peek A Boo (is a game similar to hide and seek. In the game, one person hides their face, pops back into view, and says — to the other's amusement — "Peekaboo"!! or "Peekaboo, I see you"!! In this case, it would be "Pictaboo, I see you"!!

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COMMENTS:

cute - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 11:56:00

adorable etymology - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:14:00

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: SHY ter BUG gy

Sentence: Some freaky guy is weirding me out because he takes pictures of my hands, my ears, my lunch box, my feet, my everything. As soon as I turn around he starts to shyterbuggy me. He thinks I don't know. Yesterday I saw him sitting in the cafeteria admiring all of his pictures of me when he didn't realize I was standing behind him.

Etymology: SHY: nervous or embarrassed to come near someone SHUTTERBUG: a person who really likes to take photos BUGGY: slang for crazy

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Created by: Alysonia

Pronunciation: Cree-per-ta-grah-fee

Sentence: "Someone is stalking me and sending me some serious creepertography." Can also be: "Look at this picture I found on Ted's phone of the back of my neck! He is such a Creepertographer!"

Etymology: A "creep," someone who is really sketchy, in the action of being sketchy and stalking becomes a "creeper," combined with "photography" thus forms creep-er-tography.

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COMMENTS:

Creepertography/Creepertographers - Alysonia, 2009-02-06: 14:08:00

Reminds me of a line from an old fun song: 'Jeerpers! Creepers! Where'd ya get those eyes?' Great create - silveryaspen, 2009-02-06: 22:18:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sello foto

Sentence: Now everyone who owns a cell phone has become a paparazzo. When they see a famous person, they quick use their cell phone camera to get a candid shot, which in turn they try to market to the newspapers and magazines. It is a cellophoto moment, where a picture of a cellebrity is something you can sellaphoto to the media.

Etymology: Cell (cellular telephone;a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver) & Telephoto (a photograph made with a telephoto lens)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: snapäpərätsē

Sentence: As a food-issue counselor, Joan was more than embarrassed to see a picture a picture of herself coming out of KFC. Some snaparazzi secretly snapped her picture because he (or she) thought her outfit was funny and posted on Facebook. She didn’t even know it existed until a friend of a friend tagged the photo with her name. So far she hasn’t been successful convincing anybody that the large bucket in the pic was just a convenient way to carry a number of salads.

Etymology: snap (an informal photograph taken quickly) + Paparazzi (a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities to get photographs of them)

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