Verboticisms

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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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: seh-leb-reh-TOSE-is

Sentence: It was often said by Marilyn's friends that she had a bad case of celebritosis as she was so obsessed with trying to identify with celebrities that she often overlooked social obligations as well as personal affairs, including grooming.

Etymology: Blend of 'celebrity' (a famous or celebrated person) and 'osis' (suffix meaning abnormal or diseased condition)

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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)

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Created by: alphabetapolothology

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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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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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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.

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Created by: loxhobabl

Pronunciation: star-lay-zur

Sentence: Kids nowadays are such starlazers because they emulate lives of celebs when they should set their own paths.

Etymology: star: a celebrity or famous person lazy: shiftless; low ambition in life

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Created by: ianbkk

Pronunciation: Pri-ohr-ti-LU-sionist

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Etymology: Priority - something important, delusion - believing in something despite all the evidence to the contrary.

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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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