Verboticisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ring/or/mors/us

Sentence: Since Julie wasn't sure if she could let her phone ring or simply vibrate during the date she pleaded with her friend to ringormorsos her so she could make her escape if necessary.

Etymology: ring + morse (as in morse code) + SOS + take on rigor mortis

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COMMENTS:

Good etymology - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-28: 21:38:00

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: dent/al/sell/epathy

Sentence: Dentists are providing dentalcellepathy for emergency calls. A microchip is implanted in a molar which can activate the emergency number needed to get you out of a scrape.

Etymology: mental telepathy + dental + cell

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: bl ine d wun wun

Sentence: Flossie arranged that Marcy would make a blindoneone phone call to her sometime during the evening of her blind date with Harold. Flossie could then easily extricate herself on pretense of an emergency, if Harold proved to be an unpleasant experience.

Etymology: 911 (emergency phone number, emergency call), blind (blind date)

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COMMENTS:

- excellent! - splendiction, 2009-07-09: 12:02:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fôlbakkôlbak

Sentence: When Cindy's blind date turned out to be a screaming bore, she resorted to a fallbackcallback, secretly texting her roommate, Gloria who called her to report an "emergency". Gloria may need some practice at this. The best crisis she could muster was a lost sock.

Etymology: fallback (an alternative plan that may be used in an emergency) + callback (a telephone call made to return a call received)

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Created by: verbotobard

Pronunciation: pseudo date end

Sentence: Charlotte asked her friend for a pseudodatend, just in case she needed a quick finish to her blind date gone wrong.

Etymology: pseudo + date + end

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: call-var-ee

Sentence: Jen sent the callvalry to Anne just in time to rescue her from her blind date with the loser from the mailroom by pretending to be her sick grandmother.

Etymology: Wordplay on Calvalry. In old Western movies, the heroine was often rescued from peril in the nick of time by the calvalry coming over the hill to shoot or frighten away the bad guys.

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COMMENTS:

Good one...I wonder if they really played the trumpet as they rode into battle the way they do in the movies? I mean can you hold a horn and steer a horse at the same time? Probably no different than driving and talking on a cell... - Nosila, 2009-07-09: 11:07:00

clever - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-09: 13:12:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: a mur jen cee

Sentence: When Violet had prearranged to have her friend Brenda call her ten minutes after her blind date started, she had no idea it would be such an amourgency...her date smelled, was possessive and creepy!

Etymology: Amour (French for Love) & Emergency (crisis situation)

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Created by: Rutilus

Pronunciation: dial-iver-anse

Sentence: "This guy was a creep" thought Gemma. Then the mobile went off. "Hi Lisa...Oh my god, you're joking...look I'll be right over!" "I'm really sorry but I've got to dash, I'll ring you, bye!" Thank God for Lisa, she'd kept to the plan and given Gemma dialiverance from this awful blind date.

Etymology: dial - to make phone call; deliverance - rescue from danger

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COMMENTS:

exellent word - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-28: 10:51:00

Hits it on the head. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-28: 21:36:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: simyəˈlərjənt

Sentence: Bob had a standing arrangement with his buddy Jim to give him simulurgent phoneycall to give him an escape if a blind date was not going well. This one was going very badly but no call was coming. If he had checked his voicemail, Bob would have known that Jim was on a blind date of his own and was expecting Bob to use his cellphoney to create a bogusaster.

Etymology: simulation (imitate the appearance or character of) + urgent (requiring immediate action or attention)

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COMMENTS:

lots of great words - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-09: 13:13:00

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: PUNCTUate+MATE

Sentence: He sounded fine on the internet, but please punctumate me in an hour, just in case.

Etymology: PUNCTUate+MATE

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