Verboticisms

Created by: Meganja

Pronunciation: Diz-gay-zing

Sentence: After the line drive hit me in the forehead, I was dizzgazing for hours afterwards.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: star-spangld-BANG-ehr

Sentence: When the stars were whirling around his head and he heard the 'music' playing after rapping his head very hard on a low overhang Verne said aloud to no one in particular, "Whoa...that was really a starspangledbanger."

Etymology: Substituted 'banger' for 'banner' of Star Spangled Banner.

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Created by: yellowbird

Pronunciation: bawnk-mose

Sentence: Just as Newton was inspired to study gravity by being bombarded with apples, and Einstein encouraged to investigate the relativity of time by being forced to fill out dreary piles of paperwork in an office, so too was the the young Carl Sagan influenced by an outside event. After banging his head on a low shelf, he saw a personal 'bonkmos' of amazing brightness and detail, which led him to a career in science and experimentation with certain herbal supplements, all in an effort to recreate the 'little twittery cosmos' he saw on that long ago day.

Etymology: bonk + cosmos

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COMMENTS:

Brilliant and lyrical! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:37:00

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Created by: ctman56

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Sentence: After a friend hit Bob on the head with a basketball, he saw smackstars for a few minutes.

Etymology: Comes from the words smack and stars.....duh!

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon kus stel lay shun

Sentence: Brain Injury researchers,Dr. Gene Yuss and his assistant, Dr.Sara Bellum had been working on their thesis that the more often you bonked someone's cranium, the more stars that they could see. They had even gotten grants from NASA to pursue their concusstellation theory. They worked very hard at hitting each other on the head to test their theory. The only problem with their work was that you could only do it so long before you died or got permanent damage, so we'll never know what their final findings actually were. No wonder NASA also looks for evidence of intelligent life forms on other planets...

Etymology: Concussion (injury to the brain caused by a blow) & Constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

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COMMENTS:

like them all today ! - galwaywegian, 2010-09-02: 09:55:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: gal ake see

Sentence: She was a very strong gal, one punch from her would take him to another galachesy.

Etymology: galaxy, ache (sorry about the gal pun as well!)

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COMMENTS:

there's a gal in your name as well - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:40:00

great fun sentence and word! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:30:00

Yeah, she was a KNOCKOUT! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:50:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: stoōpərnōvə

Sentence: Ralph’s baseball team drafted him to fill in as catcher. He didn’t completely understand the need to wear a hard helmet along with the mask. He also didn’t understand that you shouldn’t lean forward as a pitch comes in. He now understands, or he will as soon as he comes out of his state of stupornova.

Etymology: supernova (a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass) + stupor (a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility)

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COMMENTS:

:) - galwaywegian, 2010-09-02: 09:55:00

stupornovel word - Nosila, 2010-09-02: 19:17:00

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Created by: Ryan0

Pronunciation: hit-tom-izers

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: batt ur stahrrr gal ak tik aaaa

Sentence: The appearance of batterstar galactica occurred after cosmic amounts of vodka disappeared down the red hole, causing a big bang, usually involving an open cupboard door

Etymology: battlestar galactica, batter

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: con/cus/tell/ay/shun

Sentence: Sally was a huge astrology buff and was disappointed to realize that the advent of tiny new planets in her peripheral vison was really just a concustellation, an unfortunate result of running into a tree head first.

Etymology: concussion + constellation

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COMMENTS:

heh! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-19: 05:47:00

the 2nd syllable (cuss) is what might happen after a concustellation! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:28:00

very clever.. - mweinmann, 2009-02-20: 08:02:00

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