Verboticisms

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: 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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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: Metalflower

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Sentence: When bird flu hit the world, Ecounlogists made millions of dollars by selling face masks, which didn't help at all.

Etymology: Ecologist, unlogic

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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: 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: 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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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: 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: Paradox

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

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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: niko23

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