Verboticisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: are/ti/ku/lape

Sentence: It didn't take long for her to articulape the preschool children she was teaching. The whining and foot stamping was a bit over the top though.

Etymology: articulate + ape (mimic)

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Created by: Sarahbarah

Pronunciation: Spenk-too-late

Sentence: I found myself a spenktulate when I started speaking in a colloquial manner with my grandson.

Etymology: Spe_k: "Speak" to talk N" "not, non, no" not talk

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Created by: ericsimmons39

Pronunciation: De- spawnk

Sentence: After a week at camp with 11th graders. I've slowly been desponking to the point where i'm loling when they brb to pick up.

Etymology: Descend + spoke + nk

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Created by: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Please stop that parrotism. I cannot help talking like that.

Etymology:

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Created by: Pseudonym

Pronunciation: low-kal-lo-kew-shun

Sentence: "Thirty minutes in a departure lounge, and I'm already doing localocution!"

Etymology: locality + locution

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mim/ee/uh/jar/gon

Sentence: After spending many hours interviewing high school students, the counsellor's mimeojargon became part of her life and her friends just didn't understand her.

Etymology: mimeograph + jargon

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Created by: h4ste

Pronunciation: leech - speek

Sentence: 4 months was all it took for you to leeschpik us Australians, good on ya mate!

Etymology: leech + speak

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COMMENTS:

Bloody oath! ( I hope Google's right and that means "too true") I was trying to pick up on your leech reference - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-12: 10:40:00

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Created by: staggolee

Pronunciation: vo-KA-myoo-LAYT vo (as in vote)-KA (as in cat)-myoo-LAYT

Sentence: I admire her so much, I try to vocamulate her speaking style.

Etymology: v. [Seattle-American English---vocal: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vōcālis, from vōx, vōc + emulate: Latin aemulārī, aemulāt-, from aemulus, emulous]

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Created by: VersaVice

Pronunciation:

Sentence: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilocuted. Now we sound the same. Resistance is futile. We are the Borg."

Etymology: assimilate + locution

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Created by: phonematode

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology: marinate + narration

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