Verboticisms

Created by: fensketo

Pronunciation: man-a-feet-oh

Sentence: Man if I wasn't manifeto I wouldn't be a loser!

Etymology: Man - Feet

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: echo-pour-ee-um

Sentence: I went to the ecoporium today. I needed to assuage my guilt from overconsumerism and fear of global destruction by indulging in some retail therapy. So I put some pure wool gloves, knitted by hand in the Gobi Desert, sailed across the ocean and delivered by Prius to the shops. I put them on my carboncredit card.

Etymology: ecology + emporium

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COMMENTS:

You have to watch out that those carboncredit cards don't catch a light a burn a hole in your pocket. - petaj, 2007-08-12: 02:44:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ka-ching-dum-kum

Sentence: When pigs failed to fly on 7/7/07, Liz realized she had given her life savings to a kachingdomcome.

Etymology: ka-ching! (sound associated with cashing in), kingdom come

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Created by: marnee4nothin

Pronunciation: prau-fet-ears

Sentence: Cal hoped that his 'Save the Cumquat' campaign would establish his career among his fellow propheteers.

Etymology: prophet + profiteers

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COMMENTS:

Propheteers: they've been around since cocky was an egg. Now we have a great word for them. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 21:57:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: DOOM-Shark

Sentence: Feelbad world, along with a daily dose of dread and damnation, flowed frenetically across the airwaves every evening, delivered by a diamond-dripping doomshark preaching tarabolical times ahead for mankind. But for those faithful who fawnishly followed this foolmonger, and his fickle-feel philosophy, there was much more to fear from him here on terra firma, for financial fleecing was his forte.

Etymology: A conflation of "doom": death, ruin, sad or evil destiny & "shark", (slangish): confidence trickster, parasite, crooked business person (as in land shark, loan shark).

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COMMENTS:

A is for alliteration. ;) - Kyoti, 2007-08-10: 11:03:00

I hate it i just wanted to vote because i know you wont win - BellaRina, 2007-08-10: 11:39:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: men-iss-mong-ger

Sentence: If only they'd menacemnonger the industries that pollute and destroy the environment.

Etymology: menace + monger

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Created by: tubeyes

Pronunciation: mer-dah-kit-ee

Sentence: Sean was quite happy when his televised rantings produced a state of general mourdochity over the TV watching public.

Etymology: Morbidity and Murdoch [of the Rubert persuasion]

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Created by: xtine

Pronunciation: reck-sploy-tay-shun

Sentence: Every time another climate based disaster occurred, Sally mounted another Google keyword ad campaign to collect donations, a shameless example of wrecksploitation.

Etymology: wreckage, exploitation

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Created by: Paradox

Pronunciation:

Sentence: It has become clear that a lot of figures that demand attention for their religion or for the Earth are nothing more than preachleechers.

Etymology: Basically a combination of a preacher, someone who preaches, and a leecher, which seems pretty self-explanatory if you ask me.

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COMMENTS:

Beware: perfidious prunellas are proliferating! Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 22:00:00

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: GREEN-fleece

Sentence: Although Harriet had submitted her application 18 months ago, along with the $495 membership fee, she suddenly began to realize that she may not have been selected as an elite member of Greenfleece.

Etymology: Green (money) + Greenpeace + fleece (rip off)

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COMMENTS:

A growing trend. Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 21:54:00

I like it as a verb, too - xtine, 2007-08-13: 16:42:00

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