Verboticisms

Created by: Biscotti

Pronunciation: mow-tow-feck-shun

Sentence: John had severe motofection with the weed whacker. He started to sleep with it next to him in bed; making his wife sick from the fumes and jealousy.

Etymology: motor (an engine of some sort) + affection (love and attention)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ôtəmōrätik

Sentence: Andrew doesn’t just like his new car. He is crazy about it. He feelings are absolutely automorotic. He spends much of his time and most of his income on Sally, his Mustang. Last week he bought her fender skirts. He is beside himself anticipating the installation of her leather bra scheduled for this weekend.

Etymology: automobile (a road vehicle, typically with four wheels) + moron (a stupid person) + autoerotic (of or relating to sexual excitement generated by stimulating or fantasizing about one’s own body)

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Created by: Kevin0719

Pronunciation: nim-fo-tek

Sentence: The way Janie looks at her toaster makes me think she just might be a nymphotech, Steve.

Etymology: "nymphomaniac" and "technology"

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: uh-GOG-go-MOH-beel-EE-uh

Sentence: It was true, Bob was jaloopy. Indeed, it would need a entire chapter in a medical dictionary to adequately describe the vagaries of his Obsessive Carpulsive Disorder. At first he succumbed to ferrariosis; then he was humberstruck; recovered for a short time, only to fall victim again to isuzulatry. But when he discovered, and purchased the first goggomobil, made by Hans Glaz, he was completely overtaken by acute agoggomobilia.

Etymology: The "GOGGOMOBIL" a microcar produced in the Bavarian town Dingolfing after World War II by Hans Glas. Blended with AGOG: bewitched, enthralled, thrilled, joyful, breathless & MOBIL: motor car & IA: state, complaint, medical condition.

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COMMENTS:

let's hope he doesn't get the benz - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-27: 11:51:00

Purrfect! Wonderful sentence! - spotthecat1, 2008-03-27: 13:37:00

Uniqueword, Bob...I was afraid this would be just another alfa romeo & juliet story. - Nosila, 2008-03-27: 21:59:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: inanimōshən

Sentence: Suzy is the light of Bob's life. She fills that void left by the fact that he can't have children of his own. He spends more time with her than he does with his wife. She makes him smile every time he sees her. She fills him with inanemotion. Suzy is Bob's car.

Etymology: inanimate (not alive) + emotion (any of the particular feelings that characterize such a state of mind, such as joy, anger, love, hate, horror, etc.)

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COMMENTS:

Car-amba ! - metrohumanx, 2009-01-19: 15:53:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: con-trap-shun-AY-shun

Sentence: Edwin had a serious case of contraptionation for his cars and garden machines that could well be described as a superstitious infatuation.

Etymology: Blend of contraption and fascination

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Created by: Aardvark

Pronunciation: per SONE i fair

Sentence: Bob spent so much time in the garage his family started to wonder what he was up to. One night, when he missed his favourite dinner, Sally went out to see what he was doing. She found Bob gently polishing his boat motor, whispering to it in a way that he used do only with her. Yes, her worst fears were confirmed. Bob was definitely having a personiffair.

Etymology: Personi (from Personify - to give human qualities to objects) ffair (from affair - a secret, romantic encounter)

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /muh-KAN-uh-miz-um/

Sentence: 'Janice seems to really love her new food processor,' mused Charles as he left her apartment. She'd invited him over for dinner, but then she'd spent most of the evening in the kitchen with it. He was sure he'd heard Janice humming and cooing to it everytime she switched it on, and she would meticulously clean it between and after each use, admiring the sharp, shiny, new blades. As he got into his car, Charles told himself that he wasn't jealous, but this was surely a case of mechanimism, and he began to wonder about Janice's sanity. "Oh well," he thought, patting the dashboard of his Porche, "that just means more quality time for us, right Katrina?" (the car was named for her stormy personality).

Etymology: Mechanical - having to do with machinery (from Greek, mekhanikos "an engineer") + Animism - the belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects (from Latin, anima "life, breath, soul")

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I was going to use 'Mechanthropomorphism' but that seemed a bit too long... - Tigger, 2008-03-27: 07:29:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: weeeee rit issss isum

Sentence: The wiiroticism with which he acted around the console was worse than when he used to have nookia with his first mobile phone.

Etymology: wii eroticism

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COMMENTS:

Is that like Blackberi-beri? - Nosila, 2010-06-03: 10:39:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kahr-pan-yuhn-ship

Sentence: You know that expression "a people person"? This is the last phrase you'll hear in a description of Gary. He has all the interpersonal skills of a soggy sock. Maybe this is why he relies on his Toyota for carpanionship. He spends more on his girl, Camry than most people spend on rent.

Etymology: car (an automobile) + companionship (the relationship of friends)

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