Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ap pree she hayt

Sentence: Even though they'd been together so long, Heather had to apprecihate the gifts her spouse Bob gave her for Christmas. Tools, cowboy dvds, football tickets. He always managed to get her something that was on his wish list. Learn from the pro's, Heather...Next year buy him the complete DVD set of Sex in the City or a gift certificate for a massage from Bruno, the uber Swedish Masseur and see how he feels about it. It is the thought that counts!

Etymology: Appreciate (recognize with gratitude; be grateful for)& Hate (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: thank-fo-ness

Sentence: Marina had the unhappy knack of inspiring totally inappropriate gifts but had managed to retain many friends by polishing her thankfauxness to such perfection that most of them believed she truly loved to receive kitschy items such as crocheted toilet roll dolls, artificial aquarium lamps and vinyl coasters.

Etymology: thankfulness + faux

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: sham-dawn-ka

Sentence: The utterly useless gee-gawd-awful he gave her did not score a slam-dunk with her ... it scored a shamdanke.

Etymology: sham for fake and danke which is the German word for thanks ... shamdanke

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: joifō

Sentence: Loving animals as she did and growing up in a family of hunters, Beth found holidays to be a joyfaux time. She would plaster on her best mock smile and listen to the tales of relatives tramping through the woods trying to kill what she cherished. This year she managed to bust out a real smile as she when she opened a present from her parents of a jacket with a faux-fur collar. **Couldn*t afford the real stuff** muttered her father. HURRAY FOR THE RECESSION!

Etymology: joyful (feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness) + faux (artificial or imitation; false)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: joi-fool

Sentence: Joanne just can't stand to hurt anybody's feelings. Whenever she receives a gift, no matter how insipid or inappropriate, she is ready to play the part of the joyfool.

Etymology: joyful (the emotion of great delight or happiness) + fool (an ardent enthusiast who cannot resist an opportunity to indulge an enthusiasm)

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Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: foe-la-la-ing

Sentence: Grandma didn't really like that weight set you gave her; she was only fauxlalaing.

Etymology: faux (fake) and fa la la, a Christmas song chorus and ah! the sound someone makes when startled or surprised

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Created by: Carla

Pronunciation: croc-uh-dile-cheers

Sentence: Emma unwrapped Albert's gift of extra thick binbags. She smiled, oohed and aahed, and generally declared her eternal gratitude. Once again, Albert failed to realise that these were only crocodilecheers.

Etymology: crocodile tears + cheers

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Created by: SKK717

Pronunciation: FALL JOY MENT

Sentence: After watching her face after she opened my gift I could the reaction was one of faljoyment.

Etymology: A combination of the words False and enjoyment

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Created by: Korinne

Pronunciation: Fak-it-tude

Sentence: I had to show some fakitude when Frank gave me a Michael Bolton CD.

Etymology: Fake + It + Gratitude

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: DAWR-uh-thee

Sentence: Despite hours of shoe misery and stressed-out shopping to buy a contraption - which looked like space junk - but was supposed to help improve Bob’s putting, Roxie’s best intentions ended up little more than a dorothy, with Bob's staged smile and a few moments of crafted giftrionics.

Etymology: DOROTHY: (fem. proper name, from Fr. Dorothée, from L. Dorothea, from Gk., lit. "gift of God," from doron "gift" + fem. of theos "god.") An irony of expression and intention: when a speaker says one thing but means the opposite. An example of this is sarcasm, but it can also be feigned appreciation or gratitude, Perhaps, the word "antagonym" also covers this situation. DOROTHIZE: v intr. to make out to the giver that the gift they're giving you is a " gift of god." GIFTRIONICS: blend of gift & histrionics: A deliberate display of emotion for effect, feigned emotion

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COMMENTS:

Excellent eponym. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-23: 10:19:00

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