Verboticisms

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: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: trans/snub/stan/tia/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:

I can't help thinking I need a token for the turnstile when I read that word. ;)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:39:00

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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: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: ree-MOH-cayt

Sentence: As Alex's girlfriend slammed the door in his face, he automatically assumed she was remocating from a phone call just before.

Etymology: relocate + emotion

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Created by: alphajuliet

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Created by: dancerxoxox

Pronunciation: emo/push/enta

Sentence: The girls told Helen to go away, making Helen emopushenter her boyfriend away.

Etymology: emotional + pushing + enter = EMOPUSHENTA

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Created by: scrawlspacer

Pronunciation: DEH fur kayt

Sentence: I really need to quit my job. My boss is so bitchy I wind up defercating on my boyfriend.* You have to watch out for the silent types. Sometimes they do nothing but defercate.* I wish I weren't the first person Mary sees every day when she comes in. Why can't she find someone else to listen to her defercate?

Etymology: defer + defecate (in the figurative sense, as in "to dump" (intr.) or "to dump something [on someone]" (tr.)

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Created by: darkheart786

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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: irminem

Pronunciation: com-pa-tri-bute

Sentence: People who are not independent thinkers, always compatribute with thise they encounter on a daily basis.

Etymology: "comp" from "compile"; "pa" from "passion" and "tribute" from "distribute"

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