Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: ap/ree/hend/siv

Sentence: After being caught once jaywalking, Sue was apprehendsive every time she crossed the street.

Etymology: apprehend (arrest) + apprehensive

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COMMENTS:

Very clever! - Jamagra, 2008-03-20: 09:54:00

Got my vote! - diyan627, 2008-03-20: 12:01:00

Outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 15:20:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kop tik

Sentence: whenever she say a panda car in the rear view, her coptick would start. a nervous twitch on the right side of her face that would work its way down to the accelerator foot within two blocks.

Etymology: coptic, cop, tic.

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COMMENTS:

Tip top word ... er tick cop word! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-12: 10:32:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-12: 12:06:00

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Created by: youmustvotenato

Pronunciation: miss-place-sha-thor-ri-phobia

Sentence: There were police parked outside my apartment complex and although it's only misplatiathoriphobia, I can't help but think its for all the music I've been downloading.

Etymology: mis-placed; authority; phobia

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: eff - bee - hii - v - sss

Sentence: Carla brokes out in fbhives as she drove around town. She imagined large, dark cars were following closely behind her and that any any moment she might be stopped, even though she had no idea what she might have done.

Etymology: FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation: a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice) + Hives (skin reaction that may develop from allergies or emotional stress resulting in slightly elevated patches that are redder or paler than the surrounding skin and often are accompanied by itching)

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COMMENTS:

Puntastic! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-12: 10:34:00

Arresting word...maybe that's where they get Sting operations from! - Nosila, 2009-01-13: 00:38:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: gəlpəbəl

Sentence: Its not that he was all that bad a driver but every time he saw a police car in his rear view mirror he would have a gulpable moment. He would also fall into a state of dread when he came into contact with a doctor.

Etymology: gulp (make effortful breathing or swallowing movements, typically in response to strong emotion) + culpable (deserving blame)

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COMMENTS:

Captures the reaction and feeling so very well! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-12: 10:40:00

Gulpability is a serious crime...good word! - Nosila, 2009-01-12: 19:12:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: nahrk-o-jit-erz

Sentence: Some twenty years ago, in college Marcia was at a party where somebody was smoking something that didn't smell like cigarettes. To this day she gets the narcojitters whenever she sees a vehicle that she thinks might be an unmarked police car.

Etymology: narc (a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics) + jitters (nervousness; a feeling of fright or uneasiness)

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /kop-kar-muh/

Sentence: Driving on an unfamiliar and secluded highway, on his way to college, Javier noticed a police car suddenly pull out behind him. He started to get nervous and slowed down. Had he even been speeding? Was he now going too slow, arousing further suspicion?... Were the cops here overly suspicious of young Hispanic men driving through their area in a new car? Had he done anything wrong? He'd changed lanes a few miles back, but he didn't remember signalling the lane change — there had been no other cars in sight to signal to. Perhaps there had been a police car hidden back there and he'd simply radioed to his partner up the road. How many of them were there, closing in on his position right now? Or did this have something to do with the beer Javier had drank at his going-away party two nights ago? He wasn't of legal driking age yet. It must be copkarma — all of his recent minor trangressions catching up with him.

Etymology: Cop car - Informal; automobile used by police officers (abbreviation of 'copper' & Latin, carrus "chariot") + Karma - Hinduism/Buddhism; action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad (from Sandskrit, karman "action, fate")

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COMMENTS:

Very Resourcefull! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 16:22:00

I like it! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-20: 17:06:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: jahn/darm/alarm

Sentence: I experience such acute gendarmealarm that I even break into a sweat when I see a hall monitor from a French immersion school.

Etymology: gendarme + alarm

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COMMENTS:

Had you been motoring about in London perhaps you'd have experienced 'bobby caution'? - Mustang, 2008-03-20: 07:13:00

Or Plodduck. - petaj, 2008-03-20: 09:29:00

Fun to say! Nice one. - Jamagra, 2008-03-20: 11:53:00

Double Stong'arm'ed Creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 15:26:00

tres bien - stache, 2008-03-21: 00:00:00

Gendarmit - i should have thought of that one! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-22: 00:30:00

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: OM-knee-dred

Sentence: Generica quickly took a mental inventory of her possible transgressions when she saw the herd of uniformed coppers converge on her zone of control. Sure, she helped Waldo burn his draft card and disappear into the seedy underground, but that was long ago. They probably weren't looking for her, but the OMNIDREAD rose up in her craw like too many shots of sweet brandy. Perhaps she was just being paranoid, but then she remembered that Timmy The Beard was wasting away in a Guantanamo torture cell for the crime of...."SUSPECTED NOVELTIES"

Etymology: OMNI+DREAD=OMNIDREAD.....OMNI: encompassing everthing you may have done, even in your youth.....DREAD:to be apprehensive or fearful,to fear greatly,to feel extreme reluctance to meet or face the authorities;Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan...

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Bush and Cheney are going to slip away unpunished like thieves in the night. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-12: 02:05:00

Actually, it was Roger Bacon who was imprisoned for "suspected novelties" back in the 13th century, i believe- but history has a nasty way of repeating itself. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-12: 02:21:00

Your suspected novelties are good, metro...interesting phrase! - Nosila, 2009-01-12: 19:13:00

Thanks, N ! I wish I could say it was my own invention (suspected novelties). - metrohumanx, 2009-01-13: 07:59:00

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: Fuhz-ih-foh-bee-ah

Sentence: When Gretel was three (or was it five?) years old, she had slipped from the kitchen chair when she was caught with her hand in the cookie jar. "My parental units did not handle the discipline well," she told Dr. Hippolatta Thalamus, her therapist. "I think I've tranferred my repressed anger to the police and anyone in authority, even my beloved Facebook. I think they're going to remove my profile picture for breastfeeding and I haven't even had a baby." "I have been familiar with this type of paranoia since the mid- 1960's," the aging doctor told her, "In the field, different spellings were tried: phuzziphobia...fuzzaphobia...phuzzafobia...but, by the early 1970's fuzzifobia was generally accepted and even made it onto a Peter Max Pop Art poster."

Etymology: From FUZZ a street term for police + PHOBIA, from the Greek for fear

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COMMENTS:

awesome!!! five-ohphobia - elcanyonazo, 2009-02-07: 15:46:00

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