Verboticisms

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: may-non-aaaaaz

Sentence: I have some vinregrets, but listening out for the maisnonaaaaghs always cracks me up, when I've carefully sabotaged the condiments.

Etymology: mayonnaise + mais non (fr. but no, exclaimed loudly, followed by) aaaaaghs

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COMMENTS:

aaaaghs - good word petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-23: 12:27:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: SAL-luhd-ree-grehs-sihng

Sentence: Neither Alex's date nor her white dress appreciated his foolish act of saladregressing.

Etymology: salad dressing + regressing to the level of 12-year-olds

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Created by: jhill1229

Pronunciation: haf lip

Sentence: It drives me crazy when my son halflips the milk container.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: vina/regret

Sentence: A favourite cafeteria joke is vinairegret which involves replacing the lids on salad dressing with larger ones - especially appreciated by dry cleaners.

Etymology: vinaigrette + regret

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COMMENTS:

Gar!lick at that! Beaten to it on the vinegar-based dressing theme. - petaj, 2007-10-23: 08:23:00

Spicey! - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-23: 11:51:00

Vinnie regrets doing this to me because I've capunked him with vengence threefold. - Stevenson0, 2007-10-23: 12:32:00

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Created by: thebaron

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Once again, he pseudosealed the salad dressing, so that when she picked it up, it spilled all over her blouse.

Etymology: pseudo (fake/false) seal (to cover)

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Created by: Durotriges

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: vin eh re gret

Sentence: The case: Rosemary shook the salad dressing only to have it Russian all over her and the kitchen. The lid had been left loose. The Prime Suspect: Her husband Ceasar, a real Rocket Scientist, who went too far this time. Lettuce examine the motives: Ceasar had been carrying on with the cute tomato next door, Arugula Caprese. Rosemary discovered them undressing one day. She told Arugula's boyfriend, Radicchio Romaine, of the infidelity and he ordered Ceasar to be tossed in the Thousand Islands area. There was not mushroom for doubt in the jurors' minds when they heard that Ceasar had bean artichoked and Rosemary was acquitted for her part, filled with vinairegrette; she just wants everyone to leaf her alone. For his escarole in the slawter, Radicchio Romaine is waiting on Death Row to be Chard, cos he was found guilty. Endive story.

Etymology: Vinaigrette (oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic, used as a salad dressing) & Regret (be sorry;contrite;remorseful)

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Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: Hi-nzzzz'd (something like that)

Sentence: Shaking the bottle, Lilly was about to taste the 58th variety ... SPLAT! She'd been Heinzed.

Etymology: Heinz - The sauce manufacturer

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Created by: pungineer

Pronunciation: Shoe/ken/froy/duh

Sentence: Part of the Nazis' dastardly masterplan to conquer America during WW2 was to spread confusion and terror across the land by recruiting waitresses to act as Shookenfreuders

Etymology: Shook (as in all shook up) + Schadenfreude (to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others mwah ha ha ha etc)

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COMMENTS:

now that's clever!! - libertybelle, 2007-10-23: 09:14:00

Thanks, i'm liking yours too, sounds more exciting than a caesar salad somehow.. - pungineer, 2007-10-23: 09:19:00

Thanks, i'm liking yours too, sounds more exciting than a caesar salad somehow.. - pungineer, 2007-10-23: 09:26:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Lo-bottle-me

Sentence: When she shook the catsup bottle the lid flew off, catsup slattered her forehead giving her a frontal lobottlemee

Etymology: Lobotomy + bottle

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