Verboticisms

Created by: mickey666

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Created by: adobrodt

Pronunciation: POR-tra-FLECK-ting

Sentence: Bob began to understand the story of Narcissus during one of his hours-long sessions of portraflecting.

Etymology: From portrait and reflecting.

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Created by: Stump

Pronunciation: Narcee/photo

Sentence: The bathroom not being enough for her, Sally sought out funhouses to feed her narciphotoing habit.

Etymology: Mash of the root words narcissist and photography.

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Created by: ce0brb

Pronunciation: Van-o-tog-raphy

Sentence: Linda Loveherself was an avid vanotographer. She didn't really use her camera for anything else.

Etymology: Vanity & Photography

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Created by: Guthlaf1

Pronunciation: nar-SISS-O-graff

Sentence: No week was complete without Janet taking at least three narcissographs in her room.

Etymology: From - Narcissus, a man from Greek mythology who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water Also - '-graph': the measurement, display or portrayal of a subject

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A vote from me - we thought very much alike on this one. - Stump, 2006-12-25: 05:13:00

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Created by: Wriiight

Pronunciation: Stair - eee - oh - graff

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Etymology: Stare (prolonged observence) + Stereo (double) + graph (picture)

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Created by: Psychicsi

Pronunciation: who-s-the-fair-est-ing

Sentence: Jill spent so long in the bathroom whosthefairesting, that her date gave up and went home.

Etymology: From the wicked stepmother in the fairytale Snow White, who spent much time admiring herself in her magic mirror while asking "mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /"när-is-'esh/

Sentence: MySpace and Flickr photo galleries are suffering from a glut of photos of people narcissesching.

Etymology: from Narcissus + Escher

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Created by: Manhattan

Pronunciation: My-Flekt

Sentence: Anne was going to MyFlect but she realized how cliche it was so she put down the camera and picked up a good Evelyn Waugh novel -- perhaps it was Brideshead Revisited.

Etymology: From MySpace, the online community, and the word reflect.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: self/pix/a/lie/zay/shun

Sentence: With digital cameras, selfpixalization to get the perfect picture of myself is as easy as 1 - 2 - 3.

Etymology: self + pixals + actualization

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