Verboticisms

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: poor/bwire

Sentence: If you can't kick a gift horse in the mouth...at least leave a poorboire they'll never forget!

Etymology: variation of "pourboire" - a gift or gratuity

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COMMENTS:

good one quip! clever... - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:02:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: trans-pur-uhns

Sentence: Cindy is very close to her cat. Unfortunately Mr. Furball often sets her mood for the day. If he treats her poorly everybody in the office will do their best to stay clear. The emotional transpurrance can be deadly.

Etymology: tansferance (the shift of emotions, especially those experienced in childhood, from one person or object to another, especially the transfer of feelings about a parent to an analyst) + purr (to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does)

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Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The kick he received playing football really hurt his shin. Lying in bed later, his wife was less than thrilled as she felt a sharp pain and realised his foot had carried out transemototherapy

Etymology:

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Created by: bghicks

Pronunciation: Emo-rebound

Sentence: He annoyed her and she emorebounded all over him.

Etymology: Emo -tional rebound

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Created by: fonka99

Pronunciation: Diss-charge

Sentence: Gus felt extremely guilty after disscharging his feelings on the bus driver on his way home, after all it wasn't his fault he got fired!

Etymology: From the urban word "diss" meaning to disrespect and "discharge" meaning to relieve.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kiss plays

Sentence: When Shania was dissed by her cat, she instead decided to kissplace her resentment on Roger and broke up with him. Now she is catatonic and not feline anything...

Etymology: Kiss (the act of caressing with the lips) & Displace (take the place of)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ee-moat-ee-kon-due-it

Sentence: As she angrily replied to his email with colon, left bracket..she knew she shouldn't be mad at him...but she'd just got off the phone with her mother... she was a classic emoticonduit

Etymology: emotion, conduit

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: demotionalizing

Sentence: my head is filled up with crap I´m demotionalizing it to you so you can do with it wath you want

Etymology: de from anti and emotionalizing fron emotions. So, anti emotions.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sin urjee

Sentence: The synurgey that Kitty felt when she met Ramon was quickly turned to catastrophe when she realized he was not a cat lover. In fact, he was a cat hurter.

Etymology: Synergy (the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects) & Urge (push for something)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: tranz/snub/stan/siay/shun

Sentence: What a weight off my shoulders to practice transnubstatiation on an ususpecting passerby after being snubbed by another.

Etymology: transubstantiation + snub

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COMMENTS:

Funny! - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 12:59:00

thanks wordmeister - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-03: 16:35:00

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