Verboticisms

Created by: heb319

Pronunciation: ku-stom-a-fa-ser

Sentence: The customeffacer ridiculed the client for being to cheap to buy a brand-name power tool with a 5-year warranty.

Etymology: from "customer" as well as "custom" since the customeffacer must create custom insults for individual situations. Also from the word efface, which obliterates all the joy the customer believed to have found in the "bargain."

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: uh-buse-awl-uh-jist

Sentence: Bergen Community College has a full-time ABUSOLOGIST on it's staff. Her unending tirade of snide remarks ensures an atmosphere of academic fear and dismay.

Etymology: ABUSE- a mean-spirited attitude -OLOGIST-one who has devoted a lifetime of study....

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COMMENTS:

Don't do any favors. Don't volunteer your opinion. Don't co-operate with ANY department. James Sternick - metrohumanx, 2008-06-30: 17:44:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: chīdandsēk

Sentence: After the hazard warning by Consumer Reports the job of the Customer Disservice Representatives is to do their best to shift the blame for problems back on to customers. With a technique they call chideandseek, they admonish callers for not following the overly-complicated owners manual that includes such sage wisdom as using safety goggles and chain-mail gloves when using any sharp product. If guilt does*t work, the trump card is to suggest that they are passing the call to a supervisor. Of course, all this does is put them back into the maze of a phone tree system.

Etymology: chide (scold or rebuke) + hide-and-seek (a children*s game in which one player tries to find other players who have hidden themselves)

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /SKOF-uh-ser/

Sentence: Mr. C. really only had one true talent — making scathing comments and delivering insults that could bring many people to tears. Fortunately, he had a job where he could do exactly that, a real mockupation. His job as a scofficer was to ridicule other people's talents, (or lack of talents). To the latest singing contestant he said, "If you had lived 2,000 years ago and sung like that, they would have stoned you." Then, as expected, Paula slapped his right arm and began to scold him, while Randy just shook his head and tried not to laugh, saying "Yo dog, that was cold, Simon."

Etymology: Scoff - to speak derisively; mock; jeer (from Old Norse, skaup "mockery") + Officer - a person who holds a position of rank or authority in an organization (from Latin, officium "service, duty")

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COMMENTS:

Great word...love the American Idol reference...yes, Mr.C. can be scoffensive, but that's why we love him! - Nosila, 2008-07-01: 02:27:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kuss tart

Sentence: Moana was a real cusstart. She earned her living by insulting and swearing at people all day. It was her dream job, and she found her niche working as an abuse counsellor.

Etymology: Cuss (utter obscenities or profanities) & Tart (a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money) and Wordplay on Custard (sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: a/boos/dry/vur

Sentence: This morning there was a subway shut down so I had to take the bus and listen to abusedriver hurl insults at every unsuspecting passenger who tried to exit by the front doors

Etymology: bus driver + abuse

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Created by: poogas

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I can really keep the one-liner put-downs flying given my talents as the world's foremost Rickletist; now if I could only figure out why people would pay hard-earned money to come to shows like that.

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: hate rah deee

Sentence: I went to an upscale mall to buy a desk and chair from Pottery Barn. So I went up to a guy standing at a counter right below the chair I wanted and asked him if he could help me. He looked up over the magazine he was reading and in a snotty tone told me I could place a special order at any register. He was such a hatere'd and so surly from me asking him for help. I looked back at him a bit aghast and said "Ewww. You are in your forties and work in the mall. Don't care that it's Short Hills Mall, you still work in the mall." He was the perfect example of a hatere'd.

Etymology: maitre'd + hate. Actual spelling should be hatere'd - but rules of game wouldn't allow it - so i changed it a bit for the header.

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Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: dih-sen-der

Sentence: Brad didn't actually do anything but unleash well timed zingers to his office mates on a daily basis, they would call him a dissender but he liked to think of it as morale maintenance.

Etymology: Diss - Sender, Dissenter

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: in-dig-nuh-tair-ee

Sentence: Sue is a professional indignatary, seizing every opportunity to publically insult people.

Etymology: indignant, dignitary

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COMMENTS:

Nice. Politely insulting. - wordmeister, 2007-04-23: 09:55:00

playful - emmyb2, 2007-04-23: 14:18:00

Excellent as usual. - ErWenn, 2007-04-24: 00:13:00

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