Verboticisms

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: roon-raje

Sentence: Andy was beside himself with ruinrage. Just as his toothpick model of the Eiffel Tower was almost complete, his neighbor burst into the den and knocked over the card table it rested on. Thousands of hours of work and 85,000,000 toothpicks flew around the room. As if by instinct, Andy went for his throat.

Etymology: Ruin (an irrecoverable state of devastation) + Rage (is a mental state that is one extreme of the intensity spectrum of anger)

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: cown-ted kross-bich

Sentence: After Jeff used Shelly's hand embroidered monogrammed to wipe up after fixing his motorcycle in the living room, he had to endure hours of her counted cross bitch. didn't he know that those towels were for decoration? How could he not see all the hours she put into each and every thread pull??

Etymology: counted cross stitch -a form of a craft + bitch also the word cross relays that a person is angry. This was my submission last time, too...

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COMMENTS:

terrific word - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-25: 11:12:00

Wickedly clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-25: 11:13:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mik karth uree izm

Sentence: Susan's despair at having her cake left out in the rain enflamed her animosity towards Jimmy and in a spurt of mcarthuryism, she vowed never to make a cake for him again. From now on, all he would get would be cow pies.

Etymology: MacArthur (Park, as in the lyrics to this song...a park in Los Angeles named after Douglas MacArthur) & McCarthyism (unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty, named after Joseph McCarthy,United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957))

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Created by: logarithm

Pronunciation: grih-vehnj

Sentence: Jean decided to take her grievengeful blog down today when she realised that she actually overreacted to the entire situation.

Etymology: 1) Grievance: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation. 2) Revenge: action taken in return for an injury or offense.

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Jean's grievengeful blog has been taken down today by the administrator after much complaint received from the readers and subjects in her blog. - logarithm, 2008-11-25: 02:17:00

Whoops! Is there a way we can delete wrong comments? - logarithm, 2008-11-25: 02:21:00

I don't think so. My comments pop up in the strangest places.... - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 10:05:00

Hahah... I noticed that too... :-) - logarithm, 2008-11-25: 18:35:00

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Created by: thegoatisbad

Pronunciation: re-tre-blab-shen

Sentence: It became easier and easier for Kimbery's co-workers to ignore her muttered retriblabtion. "At first you learn how to anticipate how she will deflect responsibility; then you learn to ignore her" Said Zinnia. Kimberly responded as expected: "Oh, she would say that. She hasn't been having to deal with what I go through on a daily basis. She wouldn't be able to handle it."

Etymology: retribution (repayment) + blab (excessive talk)

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: sŭ'roul

Sentence: When Jenny discovered that none of her data had been backed up before the catastrophic system failure, she let out a deep, guttural sorrowl which could be heard echoing throughout the neighborhood. David heard the cry penetrating his walls, almost a block away, and wondered if perhaps there was a birthing bovine somewhere in the area.

Etymology: SORROW (Mental suffering or pain caused by injury, loss, or despair.) + HOWL (To utter or emit a long, mournful, plaintive sound)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mak arth ur park in sons

Sentence: Out for a walk in Mac Arthur Park, Phoebe tried to forget about the lovely cake she had just made. Although it took so long to bake it, her brother had destroyed it. He was not well and had macarthurparkinsoned the hapless confection. Melting in the dark, all the sweet green icing flowing down...those lyrics made as little sense to him as this does to us...

Etymology: MacArthur Park (song by Jimmy Webb) & Parkinson's Disease (a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination)

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I like it, even with the extra \"in\". - artr, 2010-04-26: 12:00:00

Sweet use of that "someone left the cake out in the rain" song! - splendiction, 2010-04-26: 22:06:00

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Created by: jajsr

Pronunciation: Roo-vin-ge

Sentence: After Pete's flambe set off the sprinkling system, Carol's jello mold was ruined and she was overwhelmed with ruevenge.

Etymology: Combination of "rue" and "revenge"

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: angskwish

Sentence: With two coworkers vying for the soon-to-retire Director’s job, every pet project Julie tried to protect turned into more angsquish.

Etymology: anguish (severe mental or physical pain or suffering) + squish (yield easily to pressure when squeezed or squashed)

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Created by: CanadianAndyCapp

Pronunciation: Uber-grossen-peest-off-dam-U-angst

Sentence: According to Sigmund Freud, the repeated exclamations of the German radio star Blaubuttle "Du dirtish gerotten schweinehunds, du hast totenknacked mich!" is a perfect example of Ubergrossenpisteoffdamyuangst

Etymology: Ubergrossen: (German) to be elevated. / Pisteoff: (Russian) a negative emotional state. / Damyu (Japanese) deep knee bends that cause pain. (See Tai Chi) / Angst: (German) A negative introspective feeling.

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COMMENTS:

Quite the longest verboticism I've seen! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 15:37:00

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