Verboticisms

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

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Created by: AngelicHannah

Pronunciation: Yokk-er

Sentence: Ted: Yay! Sally's been fired finally!!! Bill: Ted that's a bit harsh stop being a yokker!

Etymology: Ya wha?

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COMMENTS:

Original and creative. Gelbert Burgess would be proud of you. Terrific word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 02:54:00

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Created by: coachnomad23

Pronunciation: colleague-asm

Sentence: Seeing my partners on the project get fired for messing up the presentation, gave me a colleagasm.

Etymology:

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Colleagasm sounds like a very positive thing to me!! Love the word!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-03-23: 10:30:00

So many good words can be contrived from the "O". I keep waiting for the definition for "The point at which you become assimilated with the borg" (borgasm). - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 12:18:00

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Created by: Loreshai

Pronunciation: shah-den-fy-yurd

Sentence: Jill felt slighty guilty that she was happy about screwing over her best friend in order to get a promotion at work. Jill felt Schadenfired.

Etymology: Fired - to be removed from employment + Schadenfreunde - german term to be happy when bad things happen to your friends.

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Created by: Tanik

Pronunciation: voo-do-li-sh-iss

Sentence: Man, this moment is voodoolicious. He totally deserved that dressing down.

Etymology: voodoo + delicious

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COMMENTS:

I like it! - wordmeister, 2008-06-17: 06:19:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: shad en frend lee

Sentence: in a fit of schadenfriendliness, she commiserated with Ted while feverishly helping him empty his desk.

Etymology: schadenfreude, friendly

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like sad and friendly. A "worthy" word. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-23: 10:57:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: glad vers it tee

Sentence: Ruth was excited when the Feds came and picked up her partner, Les, for fraud. She thrived in gladversity over his finally being caught, especially since she was the anonymous source who tipped them off. Sure with him out of the partnership, she would be free to rename their business and start afresh. I mean, who wanted to work somewhere called Ruth Les Collections Agency???

Etymology: Glad (showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy;feeling happy appreciation) & Adversity (a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; a state of misfortune or affliction)

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Well done! "Ruth Les Collections" - hilarious! - splendiction, 2009-10-09: 21:55:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: glēmôrs

Sentence: When her rival was caught cheating Sarah felt a deep sense of gleemorse. The only thing that could make her feel better/worse would be if she had been the one to report it.

Etymology: glee (great delight) + remorse (deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed)

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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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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: lumina

Pronunciation: hip hip sorray

Sentence: A classic case of "the good news and the bad news" was just the way Candace's life seemed to be going lately. So when she heard Linda, not Linda B., but Linda S, the one who stole her man had been fired the same day her cat died, she couldn't help but feel hiphipsorray.

Etymology: Feeling sorry on the outside, but cheering on the inside.

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COMMENTS:

great - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-16: 12:29:00

Excellent - Mustang, 2008-06-16: 19:21:00

Hey, thanks guys. Just found this fun site, and finding my way around. I make up alot of words for fun anyway, so this is right up my alley. :) Alot of VERY talented Verbologists here! :) - lumina, 2008-06-16: 22:33:00

Very i-LUMINA-ting. But I'm sorry about the cat. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-17: 03:08:00

Ozziebob...yeah...the cat...Candace is still feeling very illitterate about it. (Etymology: ill=sick, litter=as in kitty. Def: The lowest point of grief after losing a beloved feline.) :) - lumina, 2008-06-17: 10:46:00

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