Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: poōmərang

Sentence: Wendell loves to help others. The problem is that most of his efforts turn into poomerangs.

Etymology: poo (excrement) + boomerang (of a plan or action - return to the originator, often with negative consequences)

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COMMENTS:

pooriffic word - Nosila, 2010-04-27: 23:18:00

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Created by: novaspectyr

Pronunciation: spex/cruh/sist

Sentence: Always willing to help, John spexcressisted his friend Jane with her cat's messy litter box. His reputation as a catsanova ruined and his clothing stained, he was forced to move out in order to escape the resulting feline persecution.

Etymology: speckle + excrement + assist

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COMMENTS:

Good tongue twister! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-07: 11:05:00

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Created by: emdeejay

Pronunciation: Mess Cat ology

Sentence: Leonard was a man of deeply held convictions. Through obsessively cleaning and ordering everything he sought to rid the world of chaos, and thus change and progress. Once everything was thusly (de)filed, his dreams would be realised: the end of civilisation as we know it! Tuesday presented Leonard with an opportunity. Penny, a kind hearted and gentile soul from across the hall had invited him for dinner. While the disorganised Penny unpacked her groceries, Leonard attempted to move one step closer to his goal by relieving Penny of Sheldon's litter box detritus. Sheldon however had agendas of his own, namely the detritus that had collected in Leonard's head. Feline hissery and chaos ensued, and instead of hitting the fan, the contents of Sheldon's litter box, along with Leonard, hit the floor. Later as Leonard wandered home he pondered the evenings events. The mission had been thwarted, but his will remained iron clad. He would reaffirm his faith and end his evening with another reading from the book of Messcatology.

Etymology: Eschatology - pertaining to bringing about the end of days, Biblical style. Mess - a disorderly state of affairs. Cat - the reference to the genus Felis Catus is (almost) entirely coincidental

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COMMENTS:

But the reference to "The Big Bang Theory" was deliberate... - emdeejay, 2008-12-02: 03:46:00

a revelation - petaj, 2008-12-02: 04:15:00

Terrific word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-02: 04:57:00

Meowvuhliss - Mustang, 2008-12-02: 07:36:00

GREAT sentence. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-02: 14:05:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: lit-her-poop-dee-do-er

Sentence: Larry Linderdidit was such a litterpoopdedoer for his friend Jeaneretta. He was in deep with her...

Etymology: Litter; Poop; Play on the word "doer";

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: seh-MAYR-eh-trashd

Sentence: As often as not when Harlan would voluntarily attempt to solve other people's problems he would get it wrong and end up being severely samaritrashed for his well intended efforts.

Etymology: Blend of 'samaritan' (a person who is generous in helping those in distress)and 'trash' (v. to subject to criticism or invective; especially: to disparage strongly )

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: hell - per - skell - ter

Sentence: Lenny was beginning to feel all hellperskelter. Instead of experiencing the warm fuzzy feeling that should come with doing good deeds for his friends, he had been thrust into some type of helper hell where everything had gone awry. He gave his friend Bruce an opinion about a relationship issue last week which had led to his breakup with Ilene. Now, Jenny was calling him to inform him that he had killed her prize Yucca plant that he had done his best to care for when she was out of town on business.

Etymology: The word helper (someone who assists another or helps) is combined with Hell to form the first part of this word + skelter (from helter skelter) tumultuous disorder; confusion.

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COMMENTS:

Great word. Great etymology - silveryaspen, 2008-12-02: 13:08:00

VERY creative, M. - metrohumanx, 2008-12-02: 14:02:00

I like it! One vote for you! - logarithm, 2008-12-02: 17:28:00

Brilliant! - emdeejay, 2008-12-02: 19:57:00

LMAO! This is a good one! - mzoctober84, 2008-12-03: 12:49:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: pinched/hittur

Sentence: When I volunteered to help out a friend with her two year old twins I didn't realize I'd be the pinchedhitter.

Etymology: pinched + hit + pinch-hitter (substitute)

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COMMENTS:

Might not be so bad, if she was the one who pinched you ... and where !!! (big silly grin) Fun and funny! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-07: 08:37:00

Chuckled over the 'sock it to her' comment today. Wish I'd thought of it to incorporate it into the sentence. Thanks Jabberwocky! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-07: 19:48:00

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Created by: Maxine

Pronunciation: Not that confusing.

Sentence: At the age of twenty-nine, Amanda, a deepdoodoogooder born into a rich and religious white suburban family and raised to have an unconditionally generous and kind-hearted attitude toward the poor and destitute druggies in less fortunate neighborhoods, is hooked on crack.

Etymology: deep doo doo; do gooder

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COMMENTS:

Cracking good pun! As clever as your deepdoodoogooder! Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-07: 08:46:00

The word sounds great, but when I try to read it, I find my eyes going cross. All those e's and o's start to blend and the d's and p's and g all start to look like the same letter flipped around. - ErWenn, 2008-02-07: 10:16:00

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-07: 13:19:00

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Created by: picabomama

Pronunciation: mād - dl

Sentence: For Valentine's Day my husband decided to do me a favor and organize my messy closet. This "gift" was really a manifestation of his OCD and I asked him not to do it. Of course, he ignored me and I came home one afternoon to find him unconscious on the bedroom floor, under an avalanch of apparel debris. When he came to, he promised never to MAIDDLE in my affairs again.

Etymology: maid- someone who performs the service of cleaning other people's home meddle- to butt in, to interfere

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COMMENTS:

So cleverly crafted in your sentence ... great verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-07: 19:42:00

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Created by: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Boom-er-ane-jel or boom-er-ang-le

Sentence: Despite all his efforts, Jack's best friend /guardian angel, Alex, just couldn't stop him from getting into all kinds of trouble. Which inevitably rebounded back on the angel, getting him the nickname Boomerangel

Etymology: Boomerang - (Australian) An aerodynamic weapon with the property of eliptical flight. or to rebound upon. Angel - Helpmate, guardian

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COMMENTS:

very nice word - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-07: 15:57:00

Out of this world! Heavenly! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-07: 19:45:00

I was looking for a way to use 'boomerang' too, but I couldn't get it to work — you sure did! Excellent creation. - Tigger, 2008-02-11: 01:03:00

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