Verboticisms

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: 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: 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: Gionuzzo

Pronunciation: uh POK oh rich

Sentence: Hoboes with "the world will end!" signs do exactly the same thing as the apocorich company that made the Al Gore/Global warming movie, but the hobos don't make money!

Etymology: apocolypse + rich

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Created by: MrPlow42

Pronunciation: Fud - bud

Sentence: Those fudbuds are now trying to convince us that our dogs aren't getting enough cheese.

Etymology: F.U.D. - Information Technology term for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. & Bud - friend.

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Created by: phdschub

Pronunciation: ter-ror-press

Sentence: Why does the terrorpress always find us in a state of impending doom. or 2)The terrorpress got to me again.

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Created by: Rossco

Pronunciation: Doo-mon-gur

Sentence: This year's enviro-expo was full of doomongers.

Etymology: global destruction/damnation = doom + (blank)monger (purveyor of whatever)

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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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Created by: applesnpairs

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Created by: GreenTara

Pronunciation: Terror-Corp

Sentence: All the terrorcorps competed with one another to scare the public the most - for the most profit.

Etymology: terror-fear, corp-corporation

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