Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fall tee pow urs

Sentence: Basil Fawlty is a faultypowers. He faultypowers his hotel guests for expecting too much from him, like sunny weather and decent food. He faultypowers his wife Sybil, his little nest of vipers, for his cynical world view, due to his prison camp of a marriage (she being the warden, of course and he the lifer). And mainly he faultypowers Manuel, his dogsbody, on everything and anything else that clouds his day, just because Manuel is from Barcelona and can never understand enough English to know he is to blame. In his own mind, nothing is ever Basil's fault. Luckily he has Sybil to constantly remind him that he is wrong about that, too!

Etymology: faulty (describes a situation where things are wrongly done; being responsible for errors or defects;gives reason to complain) & powers (in fluential persons; ability to act or make changes; superhuman skills) & for rhyming and reference, Fawlty Towers (popular British sitcom)

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COMMENTS:

I love Faulty Towers! - pieceof314, 2008-04-24: 11:30:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: sin-flate

Sentence: Jean would sinflate every mistake Jack made until he felt like he needed to beg for absolution.

Etymology: sin: guilt, trespass, ungodliness + inflate:aggrandize, blow out of proportion

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: en/vyro/mental/pest

Sentence: An environmentalpest is worse than global warming.

Etymology: environmentalist + mental + pest

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: KUHL-po-hol-ik

Sentence: Bob was culpoholic who would smile when things went wrong because he had already thought of someone he could blame it on.

Etymology: CULPOHOLIC: One who ascribes blame to others excessively & habitually. From Lt, "CULP" " fault, blame, crime & "OHOLIC" : A pseudo suffix: for one who does something to excess & habitually.

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COMMENTS:

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-24: 11:45:00

excellent - stache, 2008-04-24: 14:07:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sky fawlt

Sentence: When the sun made her ice cream cone drip, Betheny did the old skyfault trick...blame the sky, cause it holds the sun for melting the ice cream, which would not have happened if she had just eaten it right away.

Etymology: Sky (wild blue yonder) Fault (Blame;culpability) & Wordplay on Skyfall (latest James Bond Movie)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: tranz-FIM-pleh-kayt

Sentence: Freida was borderline paranoid and saw disasters looming in any kind of bad news and even in some of her own misadventures, but rather than taking stock and dealing with issues head on she would transfimplicate, blaming other people, the government and other kinds of agencies for her perceived doom and gloom.

Etymology: Blend of transfer and implicate

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: extra+culp+deflect

Sentence: You're already late due to your own procrastination, don't waste even more time extraculpdeflecting.

Etymology: extraNEOUS+culpABLE+deflectION

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: laim-blaim

Sentence: Gertrude came up with so many ridiculous reasons for her own failures that her friends began to label her tactics as lameblame, phony excuses that they knew even SHE couldn't believe.

Etymology: Blend of 'lame' (weak; inadequate; unsatisfactory; clumsy: a lame excuse) and 'blame' (to hold responsible; find fault with; censure)

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: blame/bee/dex/trose

Sentence: A blamebedextrous person can shift blame with double the speed.

Etymology: blame + be + ambidextrous

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COMMENTS:

clver! - mweinmann, 2009-06-18: 08:52:00

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Created by: leedit

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Beliebelaming behavior can be symptomatic of poor self esteem and diminished synaptic activity.

Etymology: Original form, "belible", was more common in the first half of the 20th century; additional syllable is a more recent etymological development.

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