Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: trouməəsträləjē

Sentence: Sidney (aka Lumpy) is working on a new field of study, traumastrology. It is the study of how a person is effected by the alignment of the stars that occur just after a blow to the head. He has worked for years to perfect just the right whack to the noggin. Too little and there are no stars, too much and the ability to gather data is lost. His theory is that a Pisces would react differently than a Taurus to the same concussive event. He may never know. He just can't seem to recruit test subjects. Friends think he has studied a bit too much on his own.

Etymology: trauma (physical injury) + astrology (the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world)

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COMMENTS:

like it - galwaywegian, 2009-02-19: 05:47:00

The science of the 2X4. Love it! - wayoffcenter, 2009-02-19: 06:46:00

Good one. - Mustang, 2009-02-19: 20:51:00

Deja vu all over again...where do you get your inspiration??? - Nosila, 2009-02-20: 01:40:00

nice... - mweinmann, 2009-02-20: 08:00:00

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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: Yerolin

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: haʊ:strɒŋ:am:eeee

Sentence: After 10 years in grad school and countless blows to the head, Gerard finally got his degree in HowstrongamI from the Dept of "High to Middling Energy Howstro-Physics". Now all he needed was a bang on the ear and some beans to count.

Etymology: Pun on Astronomy : The "science" of how the sky was cooked up - a highly technical form of bean counting and stamp collecting.

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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: Nosila

Pronunciation: Ass tro leea olo gee

Sentence: Dr. Sara Brum and Dr. Cy Napps were doing research into the newly emerging field of Astrogliaology, which they had stumbled on by accident in their lab and immediately filed for patent. Their experiments were based on the theory that if the brain were subjected to enough blunt trauma that one could cross dimensions and grant one divination by the constellations. In other words, you could see stars. Loosely based on the Zodiac, these inner stars would be renamed: Pisces=Pia; Aries=Axon; Taurus=Temporal;Gemini=Gyrus; Cancer=Cortex; Leo=Lobes; Virgo=Ventricle; Libra=Limbic; Scorpio=Skull; Sagittarius=Suprachiasmatic; Capricorn=Cranium & Aquarius=Amygdala. The possibilities were endless...the good doctors envisioned millions of suggestable people paying large sums to have the stars in their heads read. Their Astrogliaology Techniques could be taught at Star Trek Conventions and Pschyic Fairs. The only downside to their theorum was the fact that one-too-many trips to the inner galaxies might leave some of their clients even more brain-dead than they already were...

Etymology: Astroglia (a type of glial cell that supports neurons;tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells in the brain) & Astrology (a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon)

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COMMENTS:

So far in and yet so far out! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:24:00

I think this may be your BEST yet! Perfectly scientific mology. Would you consider being my holistic healer? - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:47:00

Why not? It couldn't hurt (me that is) could it? - Nosila, 2009-02-28: 00:23:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kon kust el ay shun

Sentence: the concusstellation wasn't the only thing that was out tonight

Etymology: concussion, constellation

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Created by: Ryan0

Pronunciation: hit-tom-izers

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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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: star/ry/fright

Sentence: When he fell and banged his head he had a starryfright, seeing blips of light in front of his eyes and a swirling dizzying sensation in his brain.

Etymology: STARRYFRIGHT - from 'Starry Night'

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Starry, starry night. Paint your black eye blue and grey, Look out on a winter's day, And watch out for the tree trunk in the snow Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and the daffodils, Catch the breeze and the winter chills, In colors on the snowy linen land. - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:37:00

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