Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: san ta bag

Sentence: Merry knew that the only way to persuade her son, Nicholas into cleaning up his room for Christmas was to santabag him. She told him things like that he'd get no new toys if Santa thought he had no room for them or a new teddy bear would refuse to live in such squalor. It worked and he cleaned up his room! Too bad she could not santabag the rest of the year.

Etymology: Santa (Christmas Jolly Old Elf) & Bag (an activity that you like or at which you are superior); Wordplay on Sandbag (compel by coercion, threats, or crude means;downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: torn-ta-lies

Sentence: the only way to get the job done in time was to tauntalize the team in to action

Etymology: taunt, tantalise

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: ins - ti - jize

Sentence: Penny's motive in telling fibs and gently coercing her loved ones was to instigize them into action.

Etymology: instigate, energize

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Created by: vishalrix

Pronunciation:

Sentence: If motivation did'nt work, Jim used his fallback option, nastivation, to drive home the point.

Etymology: nasty + motivate

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Created by: Xenonym

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Created by: oddnuance

Pronunciation: Per-sult

Sentence: You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but persulting can work just as well.

Etymology: Persuade + Insult

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Created by: MTwain

Pronunciation: Hyo - MIL- tiv- ate

Sentence: "You'll be sorry" is one way that our boss humiltivates us to grow...

Etymology: Humiliate + Motivate = Humiltivate

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Created by: Bellman

Pronunciation: In-ti-moat-i-vay-shun

Sentence: "Well, I'd better go out amongst the ranks and spread some intimotivation."

Etymology: From 'intimidate' and 'motivation'.

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Created by: kmccardle

Pronunciation: Coh-ur-siv-ate

Sentence: To coercivate her son, Mary told him that God would kill a kitten every time he touched himself.

Etymology: Coerce(to compel by force) + ivate(from motivate)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: wok/thu/lyne/dans

Sentence: If the kids didn't behave Mom would walkthelinedance and subject them to Country and Western Music

Etymology: walk the line + linedance

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