Verboticisms

Created by: c2flores

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Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: nur-fuhz

Sentence: She'd done nothing wrong, but after he'd been following her for six blocks, the cop in her rearview had Gina feeling totally nerfuzz! Were her tags up to date? Were her lights okay? Did she remember her hand signals?!

Etymology: From "nervous" and "fuzz" (slang for police)

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Created by: cathedral1

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: pe tri fuzz d

Sentence: The patrol car at a cafe, or stopping someone on a highway, chills us and fills us, with anxieties. We avoid them, like they were a dread disease. Even doing nothing wrong, it doesn't take very long, if around us, the cops buzzed, we go stone cold ... I call it petrifuzzed!

Etymology: PETRIFIED, FUZZ. PETRIFIED - so uneasy you turn stone cold. FUZZ - slang term for any type of police.

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great word - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-12: 12:06:00

Very sobering thought. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-12: 17:53:00

good word - mweinmann, 2009-01-13: 08:30:00

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Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: Cop-eh-day-shun

Sentence: Joann, running late to work sped to her favorite coffee shop, as she could not function without her coffee. At the coffee shop, Joann couldn't help to feel the sense of copidation as the coffee shop was teeming with police officers.

Etymology: Combination to "Cop" - slang for police officer and "Trepidation" - timorous uncertain agitation.

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Great combo! - metrohumanx, 2009-01-12: 17:55:00

Good one! - Mustang, 2009-01-12: 23:11:00

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

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Created by: doseydotes

Pronunciation: ˈhaŋ-ˈzī-ə-tē

Sentence: Mildred tried to fight it, she really did, but she found herself sweaty with hangxiety every time she passed Ralph, Woolworth's security guard. It had been 55 years since she'd filched that tube of lipstick - she'd been too scared to ever use it, and she ended up throwing it in a drainage ditch - but she was certain that all Ralph had to do was look at her closely enough and he'd KNOW.

Etymology: From the British root, hang, meaning to stand about waiting for the trouble to start so one can get in on it early; and the Finnish (the Fins are such good finishers), xiety, meaning a group that collectively ducks its head in a guilty manner.

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Interesting etymology! When I think of hanging ... I think gallows! Your word is frighteningly good! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 15:45:00

One way to generate true hangziety would be to ask a cop "How's it haning?" - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 15:47:00

Such a clever pun ... and incorporating hang with all it's meanings was absolutely brilliant! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 15:48:00

Comprehensive and learned etymology. Saturday night's alright for fighting.... - stache, 2008-03-20: 16:53:00

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Created by: looseball

Pronunciation: cop-caught-ed

Sentence: there it was again that copcaughted feeling every time I see a badge.

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You are awarded another point for each etymology ... sish you had put an etymology! Might copcaughted have sprung from Copcaugtchya and its cousin gotchya? - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 16:34:00

freudian fingerslips again ... sish should be wish in the above! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 16:35:00

Good word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 16:35:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: guilty - et- NESS

Sentence: Marcia's guiltiotness sent her crazy when the Police Olympics was hosted in her home town. She was sherllshocked when she Peeled off her wig and bobbied round the corner from the stadium entrance and danno the alley. Her teeth chattering like Morse code, she climbed the fence like a Monkey then plodded back Holmes. Thinking clouseauly about her feelings she tried to inspect her rexitude and made an effort to put Her Cool face on and get out of town. Mont Albano is nice this time of the year with a delicate cover of Frost.

Etymology: Eliot Ness + guiltiness (Sherlock Holmes, Book em Danno, Inspector Clouseau, Inspector Morse, plod, Bobbies, Robert Peel, Monk, Inspector Rex, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Montalbano, Detective Inspector Frost)

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wonderful sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-20: 11:09:00

Brilliant puns! Delightful! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-20: 16:15:00

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Created by: zxvasdf

Pronunciation: Or well ate

Sentence: Kristin walked walked down the aisles red-faced in the throes of an orwellate moment as soon as she spotted a couple of bluecoats gathering at the front of the store. Why would she be orwellated? She hadn't done anything wrong!

Etymology: Orwell (as in Orwellian, from 1984 fame/notoriety) and latin prefix -ate (to do, to make, to cause, or to act upon; to do something with)

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Unique etymology. The ability of Big Brother to watch us grows with each new technology. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-12: 23:15:00

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