Verboticisms

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: 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 Arnold 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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COMMENTS:

love it - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:53:00

outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:36:00

Bang On! - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 20:57:00

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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: DnBrown

Pronunciation: Milky-Haze

Sentence: Jim was getting sick of his wife telling him what to do, so he finally lost it and gave her a good yelling. Not pleased with the tone Jim was giving her, she reached in the cupboard, grabbed a frying pan and gave Jim a piece of her mind. It took almost a whole day for Jim to loose the Milkyhaze surrounding his vision.

Etymology: a mix of Milky, from the Milky Way (It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies. Also where our solar system resides) and Haze (vagueness or obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc.)

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COMMENTS:

Excellent. Cold and concise sentence, too! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:42:00

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Created by: ctman56

Pronunciation:

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: mweinmann

Pronunciation: beeg + baang + berdz

Sentence: Martin Purple kept finding ways to inflict blunt trauma to his head....He referred to it as bigbangbirds because afterwards, he would see Starlings, Robins, Cardinals and best of all, little colorful Hummingbirds joyfully dancing around his head.

Etymology: A Play on Big Bang Theory + Big + Bang + Birds >>>Big (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)Bang (strike violently,the swift release of a store of affective force) Birds (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) Big Bang Theory (The theory that the universe was once clustered and at the 'beginning' it exploded out, as shown by the fact that objects are still moving)...In this case, those objects happen to be birds!!

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COMMENTS:

got a big bang out of this creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:27:00

BEAUTIFUL construction, M. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:41:00

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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: Gadgetmo

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He's hit his head so hard that he sees stars.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Welcome. You get points for filling in all three. See scoring under News/Help. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:34:00

That's EXACTLY what happened to me. Good word, G-mo! I hope to see more. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:48:00

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Created by: Negatrev

Pronunciation: Star-Daze-ing

Sentence: After running head first into the low beam, Albert was left Stardazing.

Etymology: From Stargazing, to watch stars, altered with the state to be dazed.

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Created by: Ryan0

Pronunciation: hit-tom-izers

Sentence:

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