Verboticisms

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: re-cyc-loh-FO-bya

Sentence: Brandon had always been into recycling for environmental concerns but with the turndown in the economy he had become totally recyclophobic even going so far as to melt down family heirlooms, coin collections, and anything else he thought had even a remote chance of containing precious metals.

Etymology: Blend of recycle and phobia (phobic)

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Created by: Bughunt

Pronunciation: sen-tee-gole-dul

Sentence: My father is very sentigoldal. My mother's already lost ten necklaces!

Etymology: SENTI-mental, GOLD, sentiment-AL

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: ing-go-stal-jah

Sentence: Her severe case of ingostalgia resulted in the creation of a new soup recipe, gold bullion mixed with beef bullion - bon appetit!

Etymology: ingot (as in chunk of gold or metal) + nostalgia

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Created by: garythesnail

Pronunciation: SOO-VUL-CUN-I-ZAH-SHUN

Sentence: Jacob had a souvulcanization to smelt his wife's wedding ring and her bracelet into mush.

Etymology: Souvenir + Vulcanization

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: ju/well/ur/ree/mixed/ee/moe/shuns

Sentence: It was with jerwelleremixedemotions that she melted down all her charms.

Etymology: jewellery + re mix + mixed emotions

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Created by: Nuwanda

Pronunciation: sent-i-met-el

Sentence: I was absent-mindedly looking at the ring my grandmother had passed along from her childhood when I got a centimetal feeling. Wouldn't Grandma want me to have something nice--even nicer than an old ring that doesn't fit me? I headed to the antique jewelry store immediately.

Etymology: Sentimental altered to incorporate "cent" as in the unit of currency and "metal" as in precious metals.

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COMMENTS:

I get your drift. - metrohumanx, 2009-04-09: 02:30:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: sen-ti-men-tal-sed-i-ment-ed

Sentence: Tiffany Winston couldn't catch her breath and was heart broken, when she realized her husband Harry Winston had "sentimentalsedimented" all of her precious antique gold heirlooms she had inherited from her Grandmother's estate. Tiffany went on to explain, that one single piece of the jewelery he had just "sentimentalsedimented" was valued at over 1.5 million at Sotheby's with what she was willing to part with and had already had it catalogued to be auctioned...but now Harry had turned all of her sentimental jewelry into a glob of sediment worth far le$$ money!

Etymology: Sentimental; Marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism,resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought (a sentimental attachment) or (a sentimental favorite) Sedimented; To settle to the bottom in a liquid,to deposit sediment. (added "ed"); to show the act of melting to achieve a $ediment.

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: re-hash-4-goald

Sentence: Dylan was sure his rehashforgold would be overlooked by his mother; after all, they were only his Nana's favorite gold earrings that he scrapped to pay off his parking tickets.

Etymology: rehash - to retell or reminisce + cash for gold - shysters that assure you they will send you a fair price for the gold your are trustingly mail to them without prior agreement

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: smel tim ent

Sentence: Roy surptised Rachel by throwing all her inherited jewellery into a pot on the stove to extract the precious metals. His smeltiment towards her prized antiques quickly turned to confusion. Seems they made fakes in the old days, too and she ended up with a sentimelted blob in her good cooking pots and nothing to remember Grandma by...Roy turned out to be an alchemissed.

Etymology: Smelt (extract metals by heating) & Sentiment (tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion)

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Created by: jamestsmith70

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