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DEFINITION: v., To be so obsessed with the lives of celebrities that you neglect your own personal affairs, responsibilities and hygiene. n., A person who is infatuated with celebrities.
Verboticisms
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Spearitualist
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: speer/i/tu/a/list
Sentence: In the States now there are so many crazed spearitualists that it is impossible to get through the day without being bombarded by her escapades. These people really believe she is a close friend.
Etymology: Britney Spears + spiritualist
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COMMENTS:
Had to vote for it! - galwaywegian, 2008-02-15: 07:52:00
Do spearitualists get speared? The 'spear' of it has so many connotations! So appropos at this time! But best of all ... hysterically funny! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 09:53:00
Ah, the religious order of Spearitualists. A scary thought. Great creation! - Tigger, 2008-02-15: 22:24:00
Three britneyspears for a great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-17: 16:21:00
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Nurnelle
Created by: mangos123
Pronunciation: NUR-null
Sentence: The girl wants a nurnelle for her birthday this year.
Etymology: I just randomly said it one time. It means a bunny-cat-elephant-camel like animal. I dont know how to change the definition up there. If you know how, can you leave it in the comment box? Also, I can't find out how to make a new word after I made this one!!! :(
Fameished
Created by: kimmarie
Pronunciation: fame-ish-d
Sentence: No sooner had she read this weeks tabloid, she was positively fameished and went online in the hunt for more celebrity gossip.
Etymology: fame - any and all things having to do with being famous and -ished from the word famished. Never satisfied, always hungry for more.
Vaparazzi
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: vahp-ah-rot-see
Sentence: The cubicle walls appeared to waver and then fix, and spots began to appear at the edges of Robert's sight. The worst headache of his life was beginning to effect his vision. He tasted blood in his mouth and realized he had nearly bitten through his lip. A peal of shrieking laughter washed over the wall from the adjacent cubicle. "I can't believe she left Ryan Phillipe! He's so cute!", squealed a nasally laser voice. "And did you see Kirstie Alley got dropped from Jenny Craig for getting fat again." the other gasped with breathless exhileration. Robert had done all he could; he had taken the issue to his supervisor, to HR, to the anonymous complaint line, but no one seemed concerned with the fact that the mind-splitting caterwauling day in and day out had prevented Robert from finishing the same report for three weeks straight. He swore he could hear their giggling in his sleep, and as his bloodshot eyes flicked aimlessly around the cubicle, the fabric walls beginning to get closer, as he looked desperately for a way out. A day later the headlines would declare "Lesbian Network Support Pair Found at HP in Apparent Murder-suicide". Photographs showed the Blade server unit used to bludgeon Marie, and the ethernet cable Darlene had managed to hang herself with. As he wiped the last traces of the tawdry note he had left at the scene from his thumb drive, and demolished it with a hammer, Robert thought that the two vaparazzi would be proud. Instead of reading sensational headlines, they were now making them.
Etymology: vapid + paparazzi
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COMMENTS:
Frightfully good sentence. Your sentences make me wonder if you are a professional author of mysteries and murder mysteries! Vaparazzi is so fun to say and evokes lots of mind play! Excellent etymology and creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 11:33:00
Thanks for the compliment, but I'm just a scientist...I obviously do enjoy writing the stories, though. Quite possibly as much as making up the words, as witnessed by this exceedingly long Tolstoy (in length only, not quality) - Banky, 2008-02-15: 12:19:00
Your colleagues are in for a treat if you write your scientific papers as interestingly and excitingly as you write here! I was stunned you are not a professional author of fiction! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 20:36:00
Like a modern-day Edgar Allen Poe. Creepy, but ultimately satisfying story. Great Verboticism too! - Tigger, 2008-02-15: 22:38:00
Great word and tale! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-17: 16:53:00
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Fanthetic
Created by: Niktionary
Pronunciation: fan-thet-ik
Sentence: She is so fanthetic, she calls in sick to work on all the days Britney goes to court, claiming a family emergency. She was written up twice last month!
Etymology: fanatic+pathetic
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COMMENTS:
Pathetic in the etymology was a great idea! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 20:33:00
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Becksotted
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: b ek sodd id
Sentence: She was so Becksotted she would have eaten his toenail clippings in her meusli, stirred his hair into her frappacappa, wrapped herself in his sweaty kimono(it would have looked better on her anyway). she stared at his poster and sighed as she plucked the eyes from her Posh doll.
Etymology: besotted, Becks
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COMMENTS:
It's a good thing she's not poshsessed or she might have gone after Beckham's balls (soccer ones of course) - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-15: 09:31:00
Bent over Beckwords! I salute your humor! Laughing loudly! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 10:10:00
very funny - bookowl, 2008-02-15: 10:51:00
Your sentence was so smooth and made me laugh so hard, I forgot what the actual verbotocism was... - DeltaRho2K, 2008-02-15: 13:30:00
You scored a goal with this one. Great word and sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-17: 16:22:00
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Starstuck
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation: starstuck (duh)
Sentence: She called it a hobby, but the quilt made out of old tabloid pages on her bed attested to the obvious fact that she was starstuck.
Etymology: starstruck + stuck
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COMMENTS:
Simple, but right to the point. I like it. - ErWenn, 2008-02-15: 09:38:00
Stellar creation! Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 10:12:00
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Miseryssion
Created by: 8Revolution8
Pronunciation: mizer/ee/tion
Sentence: "Man, he has such a miseryssion, he's been looking at that picture for so long!(What could it be?)!
Etymology: misery(i believe that all celebreties are inconspicuously miserable) + obsession
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COMMENTS:
Interesting observation in your etymology ... interesting creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 21:03:00
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Celebriate
Created by: Maxine
Pronunciation: si leh bree ayt
Sentence: Celine, ever celebriated, lives in the two-dimensional world of popular magazines and gossip websites, neglecting to raise her head regardless of whether her phone rings, whether her dinner burns, or whether her frail father falls harshly down the stairs.
Etymology: celebrity, inebriate
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COMMENTS:
Indulgently good creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-15: 10:47:00
I like your description of celebriation as a "two-dimensional world." Very insightful. - Tigger, 2008-02-15: 22:07:00
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Fanaddict
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fan ad dikt
Sentence: Emily was an absolute fanaddict when it came to celebrity news. She could not wait to get her daily fix on movie stars, tv entertainers and the Royal Family. She ignored her own family to read up on the daily gossip surrounding the rich & famous. She could name you all of Liz Taylor's eight husbands, but often had trouble remembering her own...
Etymology: Fan (an ardent follower and admirer) & Addict(someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction) & Wordplay on Fanatic (a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger. Thank you Tigger. ~ James
Nosila - 2008-02-15: 02:00:00
Tigger, great idea! Did you think of it when you were hanging out with Demi/Ashton/Bruce at Sundance or as a guest at Eddy Murphy's fake wedding or schmoozing with Heidi and Seal at that Versace Fashion thingy?? Do tell, enquiring minds want to know...
Tigger - 2008-02-15: 02:46:00
Oh, the Versace thing! Wasn't that just absolutely fab? All my peeps were there and... Well no, I wasn't actually there, but I uh — I read all about it. I could've gone, but I was still distraught over the Pam Anderson divorce. [Ok, I'm giving myself the creeps now — I hate people who talk like that!]
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger. Thank you Tigger. ~ James
Genkareink - 2019-05-07: 22:20:00
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