Verboticisms

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: how-dee-DOHNT

Sentence: Heavily jetlagged, I howdydonted half the airport before I finally found my pen pal.

Etymology: From "howdy-do", reconstruing "do" as "don't"

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Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: noh-noh-pal

Sentence: Be sure to greet people face-to-face. The words "Hiya stupid!" to a "friend's" back have ended up as many a knownopal.

Etymology: compound word from know + no + pal

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: mye ope ee a lie ens

Sentence: she made three more myopialliances on route to the opticians.

Etymology: myopia, alliance

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: em-bar-as-men-tal

Sentence: Soon after Jill yelled across the dance floor, she realized the man she thought she recognized is a perfect stranger that thinks she is perfectly strange and the embarrassmental Jill races to find a dark spot in the bar to hide.

Etymology: embarressment/mental, as in mental case

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Created by: nikkii27

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: stray ngee side

Sentence: Tarra was always committing strangicide when trying to wave at her friends. I think she needs some new glasses.

Etymology: from stranger and suicide which is how small it makes you feel when you get someones identity incorrect.

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Created by: deannewby

Pronunciation: Hello-Oh-No

Sentence: I did a classic helloono yesterday, I was walking down the road and I saw Fred, shouted hello, and realised that it wasn't him - the man looked at me and crossed over to the other side of the road.

Etymology: Hello, for the greeting. O, for the realisation. No, for the embarrassment.

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Created by: bettyann9

Pronunciation: doo-fuss-trayht

Sentence: I'm such a spaz! I totally thought that dude was Jim and I dufustrated him!

Etymology: dufus-an inept or stupid person

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Created by: DavidLMyers

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The combination of being flustered and feeling frustrated. - DavidLMyers, 2007-03-14: 15:39:00

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Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation: rec-on-bare-ess-ed

Sentence: I'm so reconbaresed, I thought you were someone else.

Etymology: recognized+ embaressed

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