Verboticisms

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: kun-fehs-say-er

Sentence: Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, would take his place in history as The Great Confessayer. Throughout his administrations, from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017, he consistently attempted to express the universal hopes and dreams of all Americans and humankind in his words and through his actions. There was always some discussion and indecision as to whether he should be called The Great ProConfessayer by his detractors because of his seeming attempts to please everyone and The Great ConProfessayer by his adherents because of his cool and professorial manner during times of great crisis.

Etymology: Combining confess and essay. From the French, essayer, to try or attempt through writing one's thoughts and confess, to tell or make known one's thoughts, sins, etc. Also a slight nod to Ronald Reagan, the 40th President, known as The Great Communicator.

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Great sentence. Astute observations! Great verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-20: 13:13:00

great sentence! - coachcorrie26, 2009-01-21: 00:32:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ärtikyəlakshən

Sentence: A great speech is wonderful but now it's time to stand back and watch the articulaction.

Etymology: articulation (the action of putting into words an idea or feeling of a specified type) + Action (the fact or process of doing something)

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Great sentence. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-20: 13:38:00

Amen! - Nosila, 2009-01-20: 22:21:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: oba ma meeya

Sentence: Obamamia, here we go again My my, how can we resist you? Obamamia, does it show again? My my, just how much we've missed you, Yes, we've been broken-hearted But now we can't wait to get you started No wonder why your charisma did grow, Obamamia, now we really know, My my, we could never let you go...

Etymology: Obama-President Elect; mia (ital. for "my") rhymes with Mamma Mia.

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COMMENTS:

LOL! Luv it! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-21: 01:27:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: oh-BOM-uh-aytr

Sentence: Carrying the hopes of a nation on his shoulders the new president of the United States came to town as the Obamanator, ready to do battle with all the nations foes and miseries.

Etymology: Word play on the movie title and character, the Terminator and the name of the new president.

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What a combo ... Obama and Arnold! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-20: 12:57:00

I'll be Barack! Great word, Mustang! - Nosila, 2009-01-20: 22:06:00

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Created by: Ismelstar

Pronunciation: [moov-uh-veyt]

Sentence: Freezing, exausted, and smashed between my husband's roataor cuff and the shoulders of three other people, a warm feeling began to spread from just below my heart, as I listened to one of the greatest American moveivators ever to speak from the Capitol steps.

Etymology: From motivate, to incite or impel and move, to advance or progress.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: at/las/peer/ay/shun

Sentence: It will take someone with extreme atlaspiration to shoulder the problems facing the globe today. I think Obama can do it.

Etymology: Atlas (mythical Titan giant who carried the heavens on his shoulders) + aspiration (strong desire, ambition)

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At Last! - metrohumanx, 2009-01-20: 11:26:00

Extremely Excellent. The need for an Atlas to shoulder the atlas, the book of all places and things of this world, and to do it with hope ... to aspire to make it better. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-20: 13:01:00

Great word - TJayzz, 2009-01-20: 13:48:00

Yeah, that's the one I was trying to think of...good job! No shrugalapsing allowed, though... - readerwriter, 2009-01-20: 17:02:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: mow tiv owe ray tor

Sentence: What we need is a motivorator, a verbotomover to put the bam back into politics.

Etymology: motivator, orator

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Luv the way it subtly raises questions about politicians' motives! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-20: 12:54:00

as in O bam a - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-20: 14:53:00

should remind us that words are powerful....you can move a nation with words.... - mweinmann, 2009-01-21: 08:28:00

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: GLOW-bill-trans-LEXY-kin-etic-MOGriff-ih CAY-shun (globaltranslexikineticmogrifier)

Sentence: I sincerely hope our new President succeeds in his GLOBALTRNSLEXIKINETICMOGRIFICATION in this new century of hope and inspires us all to move forward together in the criminal prosecution of BUSH and that bastard CHENEY for deliberately decieving the American public in order to launch an unnecessary and expensive war to enrich BIG OIL by sacrificing the lives of Patriotic American Soldiers.

Etymology: GLOBAL+TRANSform+LEXIcon+KINETIC+transMOGRIFICATION = GLOBALTRANSLEXIKINETICMOGRIFICATION.......... GLOBAL:relating to, or involving the entire world...TRANSFORM:to change in composition or structure;Middle English, from Middle French transformer, from Latin transformare, from trans- + formare to form, from forma form.....LEXICON:the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject;Etymology: Late Greek lexikon, from neuter of lexikos of words, from Greek lexis word, speech, from legein to say....KINETIC:of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy needed to change;Greek kinētikos, from kinētos, from kinein....TRANSMOGRIFY:to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect;origin unknown.

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COMMENTS:

I don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper! -George W. Bush - metrohumanx, 2009-01-20: 11:09:00

right out of Mary Poppins - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-20: 14:57:00

Supercalifragilisticmywordisatrocious? - metrohumanx, 2009-01-20: 15:44:00

A mind is a terrible thing. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-21: 15:07:00

Globaltranslexikineticmogrification just sits at the bottom of the weekly results like a bad mollusk. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-21: 18:40:00

not any more :) - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-22: 14:48:00

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: TWAENG n tweak

Sentence: If we really want to change the world, twangntweak is what is needed: it's not about making huge changes, it's about making small changes relevant to real people, but honestly following through on those small changes that are promised.

Etymology: TWANG: a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English or a term used by NASA for the forward jolt of a space shuttle TWEAK: slang term for the act of making subtle changes

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COMMENTS:

Oooh- I like the NASA reference. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-22: 06:27:00

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Created by: algee

Pronunciation: voy-sak-ti-vizm

Sentence: I hoped that my unique style of voiceactivism would inspire all the kids in my neighborhood to seek a better life.

Etymology:

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