Verboticisms

Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: ov-er-less-on

Sentence: "It's just so matted," she said, stroking the carpet with her foot. "She hates my hair," I overlessoned.

Etymology: overlisten, lesson

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Created by: nonpossumus

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: tel haf fone heer

Sentence: Sid usually got the gists of telephone conversations he heard wrong. He would tellhalfonehear one thing when the opposite was actually what was said.

Etymology: Telephone (transmitting speech at a distance) & Teel (say) & Half (partially) & Hear (listen/pay attention)

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Created by: blakyoshi7

Pronunciation: te-le-sum-sjon

Sentence: Jenny listend intently on his phonecall from across the room ,and could thus telesume he would take her out to dinner. Unfortunately for him, he had no idea about any such thing...

Etymology: tele - afar assumption - make a conclusion based on limited facts

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Created by: MrBlack

Pronunciation: Tel-e-vok-si-play-shun

Sentence: We cater to most of the casual spy arts here; windowatching, earwalling, and televoxiplation

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: mon-uh-lis-uhn

Sentence: As Tracy would drone on her phone Billy would monolisten and jump to some very odd conclusions.

Etymology: monologue (speech by one person) + listen (hear and pay attention)

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Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: sem-eye-cript-AHL-oh-gee

Sentence: Jim looked up as his wife hung up the phone. "What time," he sighed semicryptologically, "is your mother coming for dinner?"

Etymology: semi + cryptology

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Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: Stu-fa-conc

Sentence: I think it's a stufaconc, I made

Etymology: STUpid FAst CONClusion

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Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: demee.diuce

Sentence: "You heard what she said and you know who she was talking to - surely you can demiduce the rest!"

Etymology: from "demi" - half and "deduce" - derive logically

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this is good! - wordmeister, 2007-02-09: 09:50:00

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Created by: egonschiela

Pronunciation: con-vue-zhun

Sentence: Jeremy's convusion was heightened by the fact that his girlfriend's toothbrush was missing ...

Etymology: conv (ersation) + (conf) usion

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