Verboticisms

Created by: abrakadeborah

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Created by: Niktionary

Pronunciation: pur-sahn-i-fate

Sentence: Rick personifates his new computer: he sent out birth announcements

Etymology: personify+hallucinate

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: kar - door - ashun

Sentence: Jesse spent every free moment in the garage tinkering with and talking to "Carissa", his '67 Plymouth Barracuda. His cardoration was causing problems in his marriage. "You love Carissa more than me" his wife would cry...."it is plain that you cardore her". Jesse decided to invite his wife to the classic car exhibit in San Antonio this year. Perhaps she would enjoy taking a trip with him while he showed Carissa off....Jesse decided to think about whether that would help their relationship or cause further problems.

Etymology: Car (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine) + Ardor (feelings of great warmth and intensity) + Adoration (worship: a feeling of profound love and admiration)

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COMMENTS:

love/ly - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-19: 15:49:00

You could land an airplane on the rear window of a B-B-B-Barra-cooda! - metrohumanx, 2009-01-19: 15:52:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: kun-trap-chur

Sentence: I'd called him twice to dinner. There was a steaming plate of his favorite dish sitting before his empty seat at the table. Outside, the icy rain started coming down harder, yet Mark still hadn't come in. I looked out the window to find him tenderly tugging on the ropes attached to the tarp covering his old rust-bucket tractor, Bessie... and wiping off her wet spots. The evidence was clearly mounting that Mark had fallen victim to contrapture.

Etymology: contraption, rapture

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COMMENTS:

Great word. Even greater sentence - "wiping off her wet spots." You're a poet, Purple A. - doseydotes, 2008-03-27: 09:09:00

excellent purple - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-27: 11:27:00

Thanks Jabber and dosey. I always struggle with sentences. This one came easy, as it actually happened. - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-27: 12:11:00

wonderful word...easy to pronounce and remember! - spotthecat1, 2008-03-27: 13:40:00

Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 17:30:00

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Created by: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Mek-NO-tek-NO-erot-o-per-ver-t-o-main-E-a

Sentence: Many a parent who bought their son a construction kit or "Junior Mechanics" toy, unwittingly inflicted hours of loneliness upon his future wife as he developed a case of mechnotechnoerotopervertomania leading not to grandchildren, but a brood of androids called Marvin and Kryton.

Etymology: Mechno (Mechanical origin) / Techno (Technical origin) / Perverto (Censored origin) / Mania (NO NO NO NO! origin)

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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: 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: mōtərdoʊdər

Sentence: Larry is a motordoter. He has a strange attraction to things with engines. He has names for his car, his lawnmower, even his dishwasher. The day he traded in his car he was almost in tears.

Etymology: motor (a machine, esp. one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts) + doter (be extremely and uncritically fond of)

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COMMENTS:

:) - galwaywegian, 2010-06-03: 06:56:00

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Created by: Jamagra

Pronunciation: krafts/may'/knee/uh

Sentence: Jamagra adored the harvest gold toilet in her "vintage" 1970s house. Gleefully she undertook repairing the toilet's flush handle, lift chain and wax seal. Replacing the ball cock filled her heart with true craftsmania! Unfortunately (and disconcertingly) sometimes Jamagra would still walk into the bathroom unable to recall what she was supposed to be fixing that day...

Etymology: CRAFT - 1. to make by hand with great care; 2. a ship or airplane + CRAFTSMAN - 1. one skilled in a craft; 2. the brand of hand tools, power tools, lawnmowers, generators, etc. sold by Sears + MANIA - a pathological state characterized by euphoria, excessive activity and impaired judgment

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COMMENTS:

Wow, I'm impressed, great words and toilet repair! You must be a hot commode-ity. - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-27: 15:58:00

Great sentence, Jamagra. I get flushed just thinking about it and I, too, do not remember why... - Nosila, 2008-03-27: 22:02:00

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: My-mash-een-amoor

Sentence: When it came to his motorbike, it really was a case of mymachineamour with James. His wife knew if it was a choice between her and that wretched machine, the bike would win hands down.

Etymology: My(belonging to) + Machine(an apparatus using mechanical power) + Amour(Love). See also My Cherie Amour(song by Stevie Wonder)

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COMMENTS:

love it - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-19: 15:46:00

Music for our ears! The meaning is loud and clear! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-19: 18:56:00

I wonder what you will come up will next? Great word; funny too/ - OZZIEBOB, 2009-01-20: 04:40:00

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