Verboticisms

Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: soo dough verb aht sim

Sentence: Her use of psuedoverbotism fooled no one when she used the word psuedoverbotism to describe her own ignorance.

Etymology: psuedo - false verbotism - making up words

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: foe-cab-you-lair-ee

Sentence: i impressed a lot of people with my fauxcabulary

Etymology: faux, vocabulary

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COMMENTS:

Faux shore! - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 02:44:00

i'm a bit disappointed in myself... faux is one of the most used tricks in the verbotoverse... faux and shun... i try to avoid them where possible but sometimes they demand that i use them - rikboyee, 2007-06-26: 03:48:00

most unfouxshunable - galwaywegian, 2007-06-26: 05:50:00

unfauxshunable! I meant unfauxshunable - galwaywegian, 2007-06-26: 05:51:00

I shun think it's that big a deal, faux what it's worth. - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 07:18:00

Fauxbulous! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-26: 12:11:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ɛsəˈtɛɹəloʊˌdʒɪzm/

Sentence: Esoterologisms seldom win in Verbotomy.

Etymology: From esoteric + logism (as in neologism)

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COMMENTS:

We'll have to see what we can do to change that, then, won't we? Good word. - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 02:43:00

But this is so clear and not confusing that it can't be an example of a esoterologism. - petaj, 2007-06-26: 02:46:00

Ah, but a word sometimes appears learned and sound sophisticated because it actually is learned and sophisticated, and amazingly enough, this doesn't actually prevent it from being completely confusing. The obtainment of obfuscation is not mutually exclusive with technical accuracy. - ErWenn, 2007-06-27: 00:57:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: semm ant hick

Sentence: his use of semanthicks at every opportunity was nonundiscomfitational.

Etymology: semantic, thick

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COMMENTS:

Good one. Semantrick would work too. - petaj, 2007-06-26: 07:59:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: brainy/yak

Sentence: All the brainyyak at the conference was driving me crazy, plus I had a stiff neck from nodding in agreement to all the babble.

Etymology: brainy + yak + braniac

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COMMENTS:

was it a tibethinkthank? - galwaywegian, 2007-06-26: 06:15:00

Tibet it was. - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 07:15:00

And brainiac should be in the etymology. - petaj, 2007-06-26: 07:57:00

thanks petaj - I spent so much time trying to figure out a new word for the classic cartoon only to find I couldn't put in a new one. This was done in a big hurry. - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-26: 08:45:00

I assume the emphasis is on yak rather than brainy... - wordmeister, 2007-06-26: 14:35:00

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Created by: thewisediviner

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Created by: blondibabi121692

Pronunciation: com plex ee low kway shus

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: bling-wij

Sentence: Mark's resorting to blinguage to describe the effect of gravity on planets as "gravitosis" apparently left the professor unimpressed, as he still got a failing grade.

Etymology: bling, language

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COMMENTS:

tooralooraloora......binguage - galwaywegian, 2007-06-26: 06:13:00

Bling it on! - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 07:17:00

His dog's name was Blingo. (uh-oh.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-26: 09:39:00

Blingo Starr? - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 10:02:00

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Bla-burr-gast

Sentence: It's her lifetime goal to disorient everyone she meets using her master skills at blabbergasting.

Etymology: Blabber (speak nonsensically) + flabbergast (greatly astonish)

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COMMENTS:

flabulous - galwaywegian, 2007-06-26: 05:58:00

Indeflabigably! - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 07:11:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: dik-turrb

Sentence: The lesson on "Make dictturbition work for you" was the final chapter in the strategic planning process.

Etymology: dict (dictum) + disturb

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Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: ill lit er ay shun

Sentence: His constant use of illiteration embiggened his his visage to the pleanthe who assumed that his archaic phrases were perfectly cromulent.

Etymology: illiterate alliteration

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: spin-tak-SEY-shuhn

Sentence: Horace's frequent bouts of culinary spintaxation included such neologistical wonders as "parcinnamonious," "hebetaters," and "porkabella."

Etymology: spin + syntax + taxation

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COMMENTS:

Mmm! I like righteous parsnips with herbed potatoes and pretty pork chops. - petaj, 2007-06-26: 03:02:00

inchewbitably! - galwaywegian, 2007-06-26: 06:17:00

Inthefatigobbly! - Clayton, 2007-06-26: 07:09:00

without a kraut - petaj, 2007-06-26: 07:55:00

your sentence confused me enough to get my vote - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-26: 14:45:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: jar/gaw/nun/drum

Sentence: All politicans are experts at the use of jargonundrums to exblight and mispossess the popuelectors.

Etymology: Jargon + conundrum

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: foh-PAR-tuh-sip-uhl

Sentence: Challenge! Why everyone knows that a Brimbamble is a South American Songbird! Even though playing Scrabble with Hannah was combative, she could sling the darndest fauxparticiples.

Etymology: faux (pas) + participle

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Created by: afireinside

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Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: grand-ILL-oh-KWER-sats

Sentence: Mike mentioned to Jessica that Dr. Jim's "fancy medical jargon" really meant nothing; that he was grandiloquersatzing the whole thing, but she just looked at him as though some irony had passed over his head.

Etymology: Grandiloquent and ersatz.

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: flahk-see-NAHS-sihk-kuhns

Sentence: Alex's attempt to dazzle his girlfriend with floccinaucicance flopped when he pronounced "masochist" as "MAY-soh-shist".

Etymology: floccinaucinihilipilification (the art of doing nothing, and a word contrived for this very purpose) + -ance

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: inter-LEX-i-con

Sentence: "Don't you go raising your highbrows at me, I know when you are just using your intellexicon to appear smart"

Etymology: intellect + lexicon

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COMMENTS:

love the highbrows - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-26: 09:01:00

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