Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sprung-chick-n

Sentence: Eva Longevia was a sprungchicken. She insisted that she was only in her 30s, even in front of her parents who were both sprightly octogenarians. They quickly put the assembled guests to rights, disclosing that Eva was actually in her fifties.

Etymology: sprung (slang for caught, found out) + spring chicken (colloquialism for young person)

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COMMENTS:

I seem to have a fowl theme going this week - petaj, 2008-11-28: 04:01:00

You might have a fowl theme going, but they are so good, you might say they are the cock of the walk! I will long use and chuckle over sprungchicken and roasttrickey, and laugh a long time with you over them. - silveryaspen, 2008-11-28: 14:02:00

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Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: trom - age - tized

Sentence: Jennifer looked great. After 38 appointments with Dr. Slinky, all of her fine lines and wrinkles had disappeared. She was convinced that she could pass for at least 15 years younger. What she totally forgot to consider was that she had living relatives who knew when she was born. Her worst fears came through when her relatives pitched in to rent a billboard on Route 290 going towards downtown Chicago as a birthday surprise. It bore the familiar "lordy, lordy, Jen is forty" cliche and featured some prize pictures of her, such as her birth photo, the day she lost her front teeth and the day she got her first bra. After Jennifer finally drove past the billboard, she became traumagetized.

Etymology: Traumatized (having physical or emotional shock inflicted) is the base word but the word Age is inserted in the middle of this word.

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COMMENTS:

nice word - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-28: 15:30:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dee fib u lay ter

Sentence: Agatha decided that at 59, she had been alone and shelf-concious for too long. Her ads in the Singles columns brought men her own age, who had baggage, most of it too heavy for her to carry. There was Ted who "loved to take long walks" (cause he lost his license); Ernie who "loved children" (had one in each state);George who was "newly single" (since his wife kicked him out when she caught him in bed with a nun and a dachshund); Reg who loved "romantic dinners at home" (at her home, cooked by her,because he was too cheap to take her to McDonald's); Fred who was "a man of independent means" (since his pogey had kicked in); Gary who was "college-educated" (thanks to the Corrections Service Inmate Education Program);and Norris who was "a social drinker" (he apparently was social 24/7!) Fed-up, Agatha lied about her age (now 39) and a few other details (forgot to mention all that plastic surgery, oops) and attracted the attention of Biff, a twenty eight year old paramedic. Things went well on her first date with the robust young ambulance jockey. That is, until they ran into his parents. His mom recognized Agatha from her high school days as the class bike (everyone had a ride!). Boy did, Agatha have to use the old defibyoulater that night!

Etymology: Defibrillator (an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation...often used when older people go into cardiac arrest) & Fib (lie, tell untruths ) & You Later (afterwards)

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COMMENTS:

Excellent. I am wonderfing if Biff will go into shock when Agatha gave him the defibyoulater? - silveryaspen, 2008-11-28: 13:55:00

excuse the grammatical error ... gave should be gives! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-28: 13:56:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-28: 15:31:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: age/jur/ee

Sentence: She committed agejury several times during her birthday party subtracting ten years from her real age.

Etymology: AGEJURY - noun - from AGE + PERJURY (The practice of lying; falsehood, untruthfulness)

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COMMENTS:

Guilty as charged! - Nosila, 2008-11-28: 21:47:00

I want to see my plastic surgeon! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-29: 14:42:00

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: ak NAHL age ment

Sentence: When Miss Leed walked into her surprise 50th-birthday party, she suddenly understood that everyone had known for a long time what her real age was. Her becoming speechless was an indicator of aack-knowlAGEment of her realization, since she had never been known to lack something to say. One of her coworkers slapped her on the back and said, "Come on, do the math. You just got your 20-year pin last year. You couldn't have started working as a doctor when you were 19!"

Etymology: AACK (expression of embarrassment or shock) + knowledge + age (A play on the word "acknowledgment")

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: men day shus pawz

Sentence: When the kiddies in her office gave Joan a surprise birthday party, it gave her a mendaciouspause to see they had gotten the right amount of candles on her cake. She'd been 29 as long as she had worked there, for over 20 years. How did they guess she wondered? She had been very careful at disguising her true age...hair died dark chocolate brown, wrinkle creams galore, wearing trendy, youthful clothes, etc. What Joan did not know was that the kiddies weren't blind...they'd seen her taking Geritol breaks, wearing support hose, having hot flashes and most tellingly, they'd seen the big box of Depends in her bottom desk drawer...damn those tv commercials she thought!

Etymology: Mendacious (intentionally untrue;given to lying) & Menopause (time in a woman's later life when her fertility ends)

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Created by: bananabender

Pronunciation: FIB-ruh-LAYJ-shunz

Sentence: She counted the candles, realised that they had somehow discovered her real age, and immediately felt strange and more than a little unwell. She saw looks of horror descend over her friends' faces and noticed others trying to hide their laughter as the involuntary muscle twitching affected her. She was aging twenty years before their very eyes! Such is the eerie phenomenon of fibrillagetion.

Etymology: Blend of fib, age, rage, and fibrillations (Fine, rapid twitching of individual muscle fibers with little or no movement of the muscle as a whole.)

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COMMENTS:

Another great blend of so many appropriate concepts and words. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:04:00

great sentence to accompany the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-05: 09:29:00

Great sentence and word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 15:45:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: KAN-dl-bluhsh

Sentence: When celebrating a surprize birthday party with her twin brother, Roxie's friends found out that they were not identical: he was forty-five and she was only thirty-one! Despite her candleblush, she quickly explained to all and sundry, "I never forgotten my age - once I decided what it was to be!"

Etymology: CANDLE: (the number of) as a symbol of age on a birthday cake & BLUSH: To become red in the face through embarassment.

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Wow, fraternal twins of different ages! I think I remember hearing about that in a science documentary on the Theory of Relativity once, involving one twin travelling in a really fast spaceship. - Tigger, 2008-02-05: 02:48:00

Great word, BTW! - Tigger, 2008-02-05: 02:52:00

good one again OZZIE! - bananabender, 2008-02-05: 04:24:00

Very interesting word Ozziebob. It reminds me of some other word, but im not sure. Very soft sounding word without being too harsh. Cool! - Dougalistic, 2008-02-05: 04:52:00

Such a romantic way of putting it ... evoking the empathy we all have for each other as the years pass. Doug said it better in the last sentence of his comment ... it is so soft. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:07:00

I second all of the above! (Especially silveryaspen's comment about how romantic it sounds.) You got my vote! - Maxine, 2008-02-05: 07:26:00

Fantastic word. - ErWenn, 2008-02-05: 10:13:00

a dangerous brush with those candles - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-05: 16:39:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: men day jus

Sentence: When they put the 50 candles on her birthday cake, Julie carried on her mendageious behaviour by acting all surprised and horrified that her usual 39 candles weren't on the cake!

Etymology: Mendacious (intentionally untrue;caught in a lie)& Age (how long something/someone has existed)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dee/moral/i/zayj/shun

Sentence: Sue suffered complete demoralizageshun when she and her girlfriends got carded after a Hannah Montana concert. She claimed she was dyslexic and thought 15 and 51 were the same.

Etymology: demoralization + age + shun

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