Verboticisms

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: foh - moshun - ul

Sentence: Genevieve felt foemotional when Sally lost her job. Even though she was her colleague, Genevieve did not like her and pretended to be sad when she cleaned out her desk...

Etymology: foe, emotional

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: sa-diss-faction

Sentence: I really didn't mean for her to literally "break a leg" on stage, so I was overcome with sadissfaction when I saw her in a cast and using crutches.

Etymology: sad, diss, satisfaction

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COMMENTS:

I feel unworthy! - galwaywegian, 2007-03-23: 06:39:00

As a masochactor I enjoyed it - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-23: 11:02:00

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Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: core-praw-dic-shun

Sentence: When Lena got the promotion her devious and spiteful colleague had been manuevering for, she first let out a YIPPPPEEEE, then felt a flush of corpradiction for being so openly gleeful.

Etymology: corp from corporate + radiction from contradiction

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Created by: TimTheEnchanter

Pronunciation: trib-yee-LAY-shun

Sentence: Sandra hated the way her neighbor Kelly reminded everyone of how the only things more perfect than her life were her perfect little children. Thus, Sandra was overcome by a profound sense of tribyelation when she heard Kelly's youngest child was caught selling drugs at school and the oldest was pregnant.

Etymology: Tribulation - (misfortune, a trying experience) + Elation (the state of being filled with joy)

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COMMENTS:

great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:28:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: THRIL-pang

Sentence: Whispering to himself, "Nils carborundum illegitimati" Bob quickly overcame his thrillpangs, as he slowly, but surely, shredded Hugh's application for entry to the University of Tasmania's MBA course.

Etymology: THRILL: A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of joy. PANG n. 1: a sudden sharp feeling; "pangs of regret"; "twinges of conscience" [syn: stab, twinge,] 2: a mental pain or distress; qualms, anguish, guilt.

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great etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:33:00

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: pit-ee-hee-hee

Sentence: The size of her evil boss's bonus compared to her own meagre income was such that she only felt pityheehee when he was made redundant.

Etymology: pity (feeling of sympathy and compassion) + hee hee (laughter)

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COMMENTS:

unLaoise'd a monster :) - galwaywegian, 2011-02-01: 11:51:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: blisfôrchən

Sentence: Marcia moved ahead because of the blissfortune of others. She tried her best to feel pity when her arch rival Tom accidentally sent a scathing e-mail to the boss but all she could muster was giddy.

Etymology: bliss (perfect happiness; great joy) + misfortune (bad luck)

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Blissfortune is perfect for the definition. I'm impressed (again)! - splendiction, 2009-10-09: 21:57:00

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Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: fri-ix-xion

Sentence: I shivered with fixxion when she was terminated for ratting

Etymology: frick, fix, frission

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: GILT-ehn-froyd

Sentence: When Larry the office woethario fell down the steps, Susan was stricken with guiltenfreude. She wanted to cheer, and knew she would have to go to confession for feeling that way...

Etymology: schadenfreude (pleasure at the misfortune of others) with guilt.

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COMMENTS:

Susan probably Jung her head in shame, and ate her favourite comfort food Pavlova to get over it. - petaj, 2007-03-23: 03:11:00

After she had her nosh, she Alder Goethe church, but she Kant, having recently come to doubt the whole issue of transnubstantiation. Poor Susan, she just needs a little zensistence. - Alchemist, 2007-03-23: 07:39:00

The gold maker has completely lost me. How many more unoriginals will go down the whole Schadenfreude or sad- route? Sorry, my subconscious says I'm craving sexual attention... - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-23: 10:54:00

Jung, Pavlov, Freud, Alder, Kant, and Goethe all major contributers to psychology/psychiatry. and actually it is tough to improve on schadenfreude, it is such a great word already... - Alchemist, 2007-03-23: 15:16:00

I do wonder if your Guiltenfreunde is that married chick you're seeing on the side... - catgrin, 2007-03-23: 19:21:00

And there was deluded old me thinking Goethe was the German Shakespeare and Kant a philospher. I always had "Schade" as meaning "shame", so your word is pretty much the same as Schadenfreude. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-23: 20:24:00

From wikipedia for "Gestalt" - The idea of Gestalt has its roots in theories by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Immanuel Kant, and Ernst Mach. Also, the roots of of schadenfreude are as follows: Schaden means "harm" and freude means "joy"...perhaps you have heard of "the google"... - Alchemist, 2007-03-23: 21:37:00

So Kant and Goethe as "major contributors" to psychology is misleading. Jung and Freud, they are "major"; but Goethe and Kant are primarily writers/philosophers with much broader interests. And "Schade" (n denotes plural) has connotations of pity/shame and does not merely mean "harm". - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-24: 06:57:00

sorry you don't agree that gestalt psychology was a major development. connotations of pity/shame (not guilt) are not supported by linguistic origins...I think you are guiltenfreude of purple voodoo on this... - Alchemist, 2007-03-24: 14:48:00

Hull! who'd have thought a little jest would get Bulletchewer ready for a Rogers. Maybe a little Gardnering might relieve the Strauss ;-) - petaj, 2007-03-25: 04:31:00

Oh and that's Anselm not Johann or Richard. - petaj, 2007-03-25: 04:35:00

Schade dass du kein Deutsch versteht! Being minor contribitors to a theory which is so important most people have never heard of it hardly makes you a major piece on the chessboard of psychology. Hell it barely makes you a pawn. Seriously, check the German again. Why do they say "Schade" to mean "what a pity"? Oh sorry, you're the expert on all things Deutsch, so I must be wrong. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-25: 06:37:00

And *I* say that forty-TWO angels can dance on the head of a pin!!! So there! - Alchemist, 2007-03-25: 09:22:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: do/pliss/i/glee

Sentence: Sally had a difficult time hiding her dupliciglee when the office know it all got the boot.

Etymology: duplicity + glee (deceitful happiness)

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COMMENTS:

Best of the day! - Mustang, 2008-06-16: 19:22:00

good one - Nosila, 2008-06-16: 19:32:00

Enchanting words: it dances before your eyes. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 02:50:00

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