Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ee-mo-p-2-p

Sentence: Harold was happy being bald. Honest he was. But after he caught up with shiny-pated Bob who was emotionally disturbed by his own baldness, Harold couldn't help but emopeetoopee.

Etymology: emotion + p2p (peer to peer file sharing)

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COMMENTS:

Bob could buy a toopee for his bald head. - Stevenson0, 2007-07-20: 07:01:00

Toopee, or not toopee? - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:47:00

It was the toopee bit that inspired the sentence about baldness. An alternative definition might be peer to peer smile sharing, if it's positive emotional energy. - petaj, 2007-07-21: 06:37:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: trans fur ang ssst

Sentence: She blamed all the transferrangst on the neverbemanager at moonbucks who always served her her coffee with a face like a bulldogs arse. No amount of sugar could sweeten that experience, she would explain to the second person she met at the office every morning.

Etymology: transferrence angst

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COMMENTS:

why do they look so unhappy? too much caffeine? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-20: 16:25:00

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Created by: Nolina

Pronunciation: Anybody-Read-Karakther-Arkaoma-open-to-tell-hao-nice-you-are

Sentence: Arkaoma is a word than tell you ho nica you are. Eks. - Your Arkaoma is 100% - Wow... Yor Arkaoma is like!!

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Tranz-furr-vent

Sentence: I was pretty sure she was feeling transfervent when she replied my "hello" with "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I PAID MY TAXES!"

Etymology: Transfer (to move from one thing to another) + fervent (having emotion or passion)

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Created by: ChristopherAndersen

Pronunciation: flitch

Sentence: Don't flitch your mom's hostility on me!

Etymology: from "flip" (or maybe "flick"?) and "bitch" (or maybe "pitch"?). Also can be used to describe the flicking, dismissive hand gesture made when trasferring negative energy to others.

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: dum-pah-thee

Sentence: After her cat, Fidon't, rejected her plea for companionship, she went to work and immediately began to dumpathy on her boss, which ultimately landed her a nice, nonsocial position in the mail room.

Etymology: dump, empathy

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COMMENTS:

was that position in the paper recycling dump bin? - petaj, 2007-07-20: 05:16:00

Pity she didn't study harder. She could be a dumpatologist by now. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-20: 07:15:00

Either way, she'd be down in the dumps. - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:43:00

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Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: re-gurge-im-it-ay-shun

Sentence:

Etymology: regurgitation + imitation

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Created by: dzhessi

Pronunciation: emPUGnayt

Sentence: Laura empugnates her friends after she goes to one of her special meetings.

Etymology: en (in) + pug (

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COMMENTS:

Cool - Nolina, 2007-07-22: 16:51:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: m-o-t-op-A-thee

Sentence: The emotiopathy between the writers was emotagious.Their moodflings flew thither and fro for hours on end. It was "emocio-a-go-go."

Etymology: Blending of emotion and -pathy (as in telepathy)

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COMMENTS:

good word. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-20: 07:13:00

Good sentence too. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 08:49:00

They need a dose of homeoemotiopathy. - petaj, 2007-07-21: 06:35:00

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Created by: kabloozie

Pronunciation: die-a-re-tor-ick

Sentence: Since her divorce, I've been avoiding her - I'm so sick of her diarrhetoric.

Etymology: diarrhea + rhetoric

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