Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: To collect all the emotional energy you receive from one person, and then share it with the very next person you meet.
Verboticisms
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
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Funkdump
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: funk-dump
Sentence: He dismissed his wife's unrelenting sarcasm and judgemental comments as just a funkdump. Afterall, they had just come from his mother's house.
Etymology: "funk" as in the emotional baggage and "dump" as to unload it onto someone else (also derived from personal mom-in-law experience)
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COMMENTS:
Nice word! At first glance I thought it was fuppeduck. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 09:14:00
A clever buffalo wing place might get some mileage out of a spicy serving of fuppeduck. - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:42:00
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Flitch
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.
Empugnate
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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Karmadiate
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Kahr-may-dee-ate
Sentence: Billy knocked on the door, and when Jennifer opened it, she looked right at him and said, "I suppose you think this fixes everything!", then ran off and locked herself into the bathroom for an hour. While he waited impatiently on the couch, her Saint Bernard, "Mr. Tidwell", began to take a more than friendly interest in nuzzling Billy's sensitive areas. Before he caught himself, Billy glanced at Mr. Tidwell and karmadiated involuntarily, "I suppose you think this fixes everything".
Etymology: Karma + radiate
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COMMENTS:
Hey Kyoti - keep going with your story - it's good but you still haven't used your word in a sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-20: 11:09:00
I always forget that part. I'm too busy ducking from my boxlexia. This place is full of trap doors, you know? - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 11:14:00
much better - funny story - maybe you should have named the dog Monica - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-20: 11:20:00
Mr. Tidwell did my verbotomy - snuffleupaguest. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 13:27:00
Well, see... Tidwell is a verbotomy too. Sobbbbb.... - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:56:00
Or was that an anagram? Hmmm.... - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:57:00
A subliminal mnemonic device? I dunno. - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:58:00
And LOL @ snuffleupaguest. :)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:58:00
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Diarrhetoric
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
Joke
Created by: callum4katie
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i love the word joke
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
i love this website! - callum4katie, 2007-07-21: 06:32:00
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Dumpchump
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dump-chump
Sentence: As soon as he heard that her dog mauled her big toe, he ran for the hills knowing full well he'd be dumpchumped.
Etymology: dump (to dispose of something) + chump (sucker, sitting duck)
Psychoport
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: sahy/kuh/port
Sentence: My inability to deal with the immediate situation causes me to psychoport my feelings and emotions to the next person I run into.
Etymology: psychological + transport
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COMMENTS:
I keep getting the feeling that I like it. I think I'm being psychoported! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-07-20: 19:03:00
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Enemsh
Created by: kellii3
Pronunciation: en-em-sh
Sentence: my friend had just had an arugement so when i went to talk to her all of the enemsh was transfered to me.
Etymology: en-(energy) em-(emotion) sh-(share)
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COMMENTS:
woooooo go enemsh - kellii3, 2007-07-24: 14:42:00
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Comments:
Kyoti - 2007-07-20: 10:50:00
Ozzie's probably an emociologist on the side, and slightly emotipathic as a result. Must... transfer... moodflings.
Kyoti - 2007-07-20: 10:51:00
Sighhh... not again.