Verboticisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: shreddy/bare

Sentence: To prepare their child for the cruel world they gave him a shreddybear which bit him every time he cuddled it

Etymology: shred + teddy bear

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COMMENTS:

Tough love! And tell me, did the child grow up to be a money lender - and put "the bite" on others? Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-07-31: 18:18:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: FOOL-fur

Sentence: Alex's trip across country meant many agonising nights under foolfur blankets in seedy backwater motels.

Etymology: fool + faux fur

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Bril-oh-buhn-ee

Sentence: Samantha hadn't shaved her legs in nearly a week, which caused trouble when Ollie decided to play a little footsie on the loveseat and then got barbed and shredded like he'd just been leg-humped by a brillobunny.

Etymology: Brillo (scouring pad) + bunny (cutie-wootie furry animal)

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COMMENTS:

Your sentence is hilarious! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-31: 07:57:00

I agree with purple but might add it's hilhairious - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-31: 12:00:00

This is one rabbit I wouldn't like to pull out of a hat! Good word & sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-07-31: 18:34:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: rhymes with Bugs Bunny

Sentence: Geraldine was the office pugsbunny. She looked like that old stereotype of a kindly librarian, but underneath that cardiganned, bunned, spectacled exterior, she had a heart of steel and never pulled her punches.

Etymology: pug (short for pugilist) + bunny (sl. rabbit) + Bugs Bunny (smart alec rabbit cartoon character)

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COMMENTS:

love it! - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-31: 12:01:00

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Created by: frostycharlie69

Pronunciation: ob-SCAZ-ard

Sentence: That blasted obscazzard just pricked me! I wasn't expecting that!

Etymology: From "Obscure" and "Hazard"

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Created by: xxbri

Pronunciation: Prick-toe-night-sim-mob

Sentence: Karen leaned in to the fuzzy creatures and was greeted with a prictonitesymob

Etymology: Karen thought procupines were kittens and she leaned in to cuddle them, she was taken by surprise

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: barb/dee/doll

Sentence: She might look like a model but she's really a barbdeydoll

Etymology: barbie doll + barbed wire

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ob-fyewss-cak-tus

Sentence: i was drawn to her, feeling at last that i had found someone kind and caring, unaware that she was actually a well-known obfuscactus

Etymology: obfuscate, cactus

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like a prickly pairing. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-31: 08:03:00

Saguaro, wrong number. - Kyoti, 2007-07-31: 09:37:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: can-dee-TOKS-ee-fer

Sentence: Roxy's fixed botoxy beam never waned,always gleaming warm and fuzzy. But beneath that manufactured mien lurked more malice than mellow. She was a canditoxifer: in look, glowing warm and fuzzy; of tongue, poisonous and arrow sharp.

Etymology: Based on, and a blending of the words, Candy (Fr):crystallized sugar; Cand,-e,(L):glowing warmly; Tox,-ic,(L):poison; Tox,-euma,(G):arrow, and Fer,(L):agent,doer.

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COMMENTS:

Wow - what a sentence!! I wish I had more votes - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-31: 16:54:00

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Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: fraw-derm-ah-lent

Sentence: She had a strict policy to never touch wool, or even wire-haired terriers, stating they were both fraudermalent.

Etymology: fraudulent + derma (of the skin)

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