Vote for the best verboticism.

'Oh no! I hate it when my husband tries to dress me!'

DEFINITION: v., To carefully place a lid on a bottle, especially a salad dressing bottle, so that it appears closed and will not spill unless the bottle is moved or shaken. n., A bottle which has been prepared in such a manner.

Create | Read

Verboticisms

Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...

You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.

Fliddle

Created by: lawlore

Pronunciation: flid-l

Sentence: I loved my girlfriend, but she had so many annoying habits. I got so sick of her fliddling every time we went out to dinner- she thought it was sooooo funny, but I think she just had shares in my dry cleaners.

Etymology: Portmanteau of fiddle (v., in the sense of "to interfere or play with") and lid (n., the top of a container)

| Comments and Points

Connedement

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: condiment

Sentence: Doris's mother-in-law loved to poke around in the fridge whenever she came to visit. She would pull out all the sauce and dressings bottles, giving them a firm shake and peering at the use by dates before exclaiming loudly to embarrass Doris, when she found an old one. This time, Doris had a cunning plan to thwart the old biddy. Her fridge was now full of connedements - at the first shake, her mother-in-law was sure to get a face full of thousand island dressing, fish sauce or aioli.

Etymology: conned (subject to a confidence trick) + dement (to cause someone to lose their faculties) + condiment (accompaniments for your food)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Hey Petaj - welcome back!! Great word today - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-19: 09:25:00

Good one! - Mustang, 2008-09-19: 17:13:00

Welcome back...my connedeplements on your word! - Nosila, 2008-09-19: 20:08:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Boobycap

Created by: codyjohnle

Pronunciation: boo-bee-kap

Sentence: The bastard boobycapped the thousand island.

Etymology: from boobytrap; past tense: boobycapped; person who boobycaps; boobycapper

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Brilliant!! - short, sweet and to the point. - crmow, 2007-10-23: 10:53:00

good job, honey. I couldn't beat that, but i tried - maggiejohnle, 2007-10-23: 11:29:00

Excellent! - ErWenn, 2007-10-23: 17:22:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Gotchup

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: gächəp

Sentence: Rudy fell for a whole bottle of gotchup. He was a great fan of practical jokes. He was constantly pulling stunts on his roommate. Finally it was Billy's turn. After observing Rudy's habit of turning the catsup bottle over and giving it a good thunk before opening the cap, Billy knew what to do. He loosened the cap and sat back to see the results. Sure enough, Rudy proceeded to empty about half the bottle on his pants and new shoes with one good whack. The whole thing was made that much sweeter by the fact that Rudy insisted on buying the cheap runny catsup instead of the brand that Billy liked. His only regret was that PitterPat, his cat, was well within the spatter zone as the prank ensued.

Etymology: gotcha (an instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule) + catsup (a spicy sauce made chiefly from tomatoes and vinegar, used as a condiment)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

great story - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-19: 09:33:00

Excellent word! - Mustang, 2008-09-19: 17:12:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Decaplidated

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: de-CAP-lid-aytd

Sentence: When the lid flew off the salad dressing bottle when she shook it, Audrey realized with great chagrin that once again, her husband, Elrod, had played his lame decaplidated trick on her again.

Etymology: Blend of 'decapitated' and 'lid'

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Off with his head! - Nosila, 2008-09-19: 20:06:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Capcrypttic

Created by: NeuroGlyph

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Splattermine

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈsplædɚˌmaɪn/ /splatter-mine/

Sentence: He hated April Fool's Day as his girlfriend would always booby-trap the entire house, filling it with splattermines, powdersnares, gluetrops, tapewires, squirtbombs, featherfalls, boobie traps, stinkpits, and pie cannons.

Etymology: From splatter + mine (as in the explosive device)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

No, I did not misspell "booby trap". A "boobie trap" is something else entirely. I'll leave it up to you to decide what it actually is. - ErWenn, 2007-10-23: 12:12:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Howgrossman

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: howww growww smann

Sentence: Her frenzied shaking of the howgrossman bottle left thousand island dressing dressing the island in the kitchen

Etymology: how gross lloyd grossman sauce

| Comments and Points

Condimark

MrDave2176

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: CON-de-mark / tom-FOOD-er-ee

Sentence: Kevin was often the condimark of such tomfoodery as the loose salt shaker or the mustard in the ketchup bottle.

Etymology: condiment+mark (the target of malice) / tomfoolery + food.

| Comments and Points

Kapsplatter

Created by: Chickp

Pronunciation: Cap/splatter

Sentence: The lid was just loose enough that I was kapsplattered with Thousand Island Dressing when I shoke the bottle

Etymology: Cap+splatter

| Comments and Points

Show All or More...

 

Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-23: 02:57:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James

petaj petaj - 2007-10-23: 08:19:00
Definitely Krafty behaviour!

remistram - 2007-10-23: 09:52:00
I had to marry the loose lidder...I'm a shake first, tight lidder thus the birth of this definition.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-23: 10:19:00
Time to throttle the bottler? ~ James

galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:29:00

galwaywegian - 2008-09-19: 06:30:00
very high standard so far today!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-02-18: 00:36:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James