Verboticisms

Created by: xxmel

Pronunciation: per-plex-ee-an

Sentence: John's eyes lingered over Judy's beautiful facial structure until she caught his stare, and bashed his head with a hard wooden bat, causing him to fall over in perplexian.

Etymology: perplex - to confuse or trouble ian - belonging or relating to

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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: 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: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: or-bit-a-hit

Sentence: When things got slow and boring at 'Smart Aide', Mr. Teetotaller Trippy and Miss Bingbang Buffy enjoyed the orbitahit to their noggins, because it reminded them of their younger days at the clubs with all the lights spinning around and stars flashing.

Etymology: Orbit- The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body. A Hit- To come into contact with forcefully; strike.

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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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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: feltcap

Pronunciation: stär'gāz'

Sentence: As he clambered to his feet after taking the blow he wondered briefly it she was worth it, a dizzy feeling overtaking him from head to toe as he began stardazing, his vision blurring and limbs going numb.

Etymology: stargazing- observation of the stars, daze - to stun, as with a heavy blow or shock

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COMMENTS:

Welcome. Puntastic creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 00:46:00

CLEVER! Promise him anything, but give him a CLOUT! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:43:00

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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: 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: 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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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: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Twit-er-splat-ed

Sentence: When Sam agreed to help out at the local under 10's cricket club he didn't realise how dangerous it could be. Being one player down he stepped in to help, only to be knocked out by a speeding cricket ball. As he came round he was completely twittersplatted, all he could see were stars, flashing lights and little tweety birds. A night in hospital soon had him back on his feet, but he decided to give cricket a miss from then on.

Etymology: Twitter(of a bird, a series of light tremulous sounds)+ Splat(ted)(The sound of being struck by a heavy or hard object)

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COMMENTS:

terrific sentence - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:38:00

WELL DONE, TJ! This def was inspired when i ran into a low-hanging lintel while running to answer a telephone. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:44:00

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