Verboticisms

Created by: zxvasdf

Pronunciation: print pul sion

Sentence: When Bob became smitten with printpulsion, his apartment quickly became a recycler's paradise.

Etymology: Print (to print with an electronic printer) & compulsion (impulse to act regardless of rationality)

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nice combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 12:00:00

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Created by: Sambloom

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: dupe/low/mat

Sentence: She was the office duplomat with a duploma in duplicating.

Etymology: diplomat + duplicate

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Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:30:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: puh/pahy/ruhlim/ee/uh

Sentence: With unlimited reams of corporate paper, Jenny slowly descended the long, lonely path of papyrulimia where she continuously feed the photocopy machine as much paper as it could swallow and with great satisfaction watched it spew out copy after copy after copy.

Etymology: PAPYRULIMIA - noun - from PAPYRUS (paper) + BULIMIA (an eating disorder characterized by frequent episodes of grossly excessive food intake followed by self-induced vomiting)

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COMMENTS:

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 10:19:00

Thanks for the mental picture. I can't look at a printer the same way again... Good one. - zxvasdf, 2008-10-06: 13:48:00

Good one! - TJayzz, 2008-10-06: 16:56:00

Terrific blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-07: 04:49:00

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Created by: WriteBrighton

Pronunciation: Rug-hay-pur

Sentence: The office rughaper would be arrested for raping trees without consent or consideration if Mother Nature was in charge of the law.

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2nd Choice: KINKBLOTCH - WriteBrighton, 2018-03-04: 14:38:00

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Created by: Eyeshah

Pronunciation: /tem-print-MEN-tul/

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Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: Pul-Pish-O-Feel-E-A

Sentence: Margot's pulpishophelia was starting to get out of hand, since she became the office comptroller.

Etymology: Pulp-makes paper ish-is type of, relating to ophelia-is a hot chick

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Ey-fawr-REE-uh

Sentence: As copy after copy poured from Roxie's printer, fellow worker worried that her afourrhea would become dendricidal. Indeed, sadly, many years previuosly, her mother had succumbed to documentia.

Etymology: Blend of A-FOUR sized paper - the most commonly used paper for printing & RRHEA: a flow, a current.

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Created by: madprime

Pronunciation: hord - cop - ee

Sentence: "Emily keeps tying up our printer, making hoardcopies of all her emails."

Etymology: hoard + hardcopy

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Great word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-07: 13:27:00

Fantastic and very South African! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:33:00

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Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: ee-for-est-station

Sentence: Kellie could never shake the old adage drummed into her since back in the days before eforestation was coined as a winning word on Verbotomy dot com. "If it's not printed out on fan-fold, continuous stripy green paper, it's not backed-up", she'd mumble.

Etymology: (d)eforestation: electronic removal of a forest or stand of trees

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