Verboticisms

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: shair/wayves

Sentence: On cool, rainy and misty evenings from her balconey in the city, it was no longer the click- click-click of stilettos, nor the squish-squish-squish of Hushed Puppies Bronwyn heard...No, rising up from below was the endless cacophony of sharewaves emanating from the heads of passersby below.

Etymology: Share + Wave, a play on airwaves

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Created by: LoftyDreamer

Pronunciation: eer-scape-izm

Sentence: Because of the earscapism of her husband's crappy iPod headphones, she picked up the phone to call Bose.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

Good word...conjures up the image of an "earscape"- like an audio landscape. - metrohumanx, 2008-09-05: 11:35:00

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Created by: kearstin

Pronunciation: ah-byoo-zi-kuhl

Sentence: Sharon was hard of hearing which made her abusical compositions (particularly those featuring Liberace) a little too much for a Monday morning. Kinder folks were worried it might cause an earruption. But frankly I didn't care.

Etymology: abuse+musical

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Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: nan-uh-drihb-uhl

Sentence: Ken's Johnny Cash nanodribble was so loud that the hiphopsters were groving to it twenty feet away.

Etymology: (ipod)nano + dribble

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: 1.jam-skram 2.esk-i-POD-ik

Sentence: Jamscram wasn't part of gran's plan. So when her skiffle went skedaddle, and her euterpia became escipodic, gran knew that, for her, things had become too popacetic.----PS. Also, perhaps gran's chewing gum had lost it's flavour on the bed post overnight!

Etymology: Jam: tune,song, music (slang); jam: to block, scramble or distort radio waves scram to escape. Skiffle:frenetic music style; Skeddaddle:scamper, leave; Euterpia (muse of music) Escipodic:escape&ipod; Popacetic:pop vinegary: sour. (loosely on copacetic)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: riff lucks

Sentence: The rifflux from his buds as she stood beside hin on the subway was irritating, but not nearly as bad as his crotch grabbing shrieks whenever he heard Jacko hit the high notes. she resolved to get up two hours earlier and walk to work in future.

Etymology: reflux (regurgitation), riff (riff).

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COMMENTS:

I like it. - petaj, 2007-10-05: 05:10:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: bud-seep-ij

Sentence: I was devastated to hear my doctor's diagnosis. I had incurable deafness due to years of passive listening brought on by the massive increase in budseepage associated with mp3 players.

Etymology: earbud + seepage

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COMMENTS:

Thought you would have been more devastated not to hear the diagnosis (heehee.sorry) - galwaywegian, 2007-10-04: 04:07:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: shohn-TROO-shee-uh

Sentence: Compared to the chantrusia coming from her gran's ipod, the gratingly strepitious upstairs party was music to Roxie's ears.

Etymology: Blend of CHAN of chanson (song); CHANT; & TRUSI of intrusion and IA: state or condition.

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COMMENTS:

Nice word. Regal overtones... - metrohumanx, 2008-09-04: 09:26:00

very melodic - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-04: 12:34:00

Probably a bit to nice to fit the definition; GRUNTRUSIA may have been more apt. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-05: 01:34:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: uh - COOST - en - croach

Sentence: Felicia just got her ipod and knew little about it's use and she would constantly acoustencroach on anyone and everyone within 20 feet of her by having the volume turned up so high.

Etymology: Blend of 'acoustical' (Of or relating to sound, the sense of hearing, or the science of sound) and 'encroach' (to trespass upon the property, domain, or rights of another)

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COMMENTS:

Quite jolly! - metrohumanx, 2008-09-04: 09:29:00

like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-04: 12:34:00

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: eer-JAK-u-layt

Sentence: Nancy sat on the subway wearing her ipod but not listening to it. She felt odd doing it that way, but throughout the train she could hear the earjaculate headmedowns of the other passengers. The way the podjamas merged into its own kind of earjam was more soothing to her than her own musical selections could have ever been. earjam: something you fill your ears with. podjamas: the barely audible sound of another person's ipod. headmedowns: second-hand music.

Etymology: ear + ejaculate (shooting out of)

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COMMENTS:

great words - porsche, 2007-10-04: 13:35:00

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