Verboticisms

Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: Miss pete

Sentence: He mispeat the misspelled word.

Etymology: mis - wrong peat - tail end of repeat

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: GOO-fli-geyt or git

Sentence: Bob, whose mistakes at first seemed like harmless nonsense, repeated them so frequently, that, in the end, through his goofligates and goofligating he lost all his friends.

Etymology: GOOF: a mistake or blunder; a stupid person & OFLIGATE (of profligate): unrestrained by convention, reckless, dissolute, self-abandoned.

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Created by: happyhippy

Pronunciation: rep/eeto/cog/noss/co

Sentence: harry finnished his drink and new it was a mistake.he examined the mistake he had just made and as a result of his 1st mistake. he continued to repeat the same mistake

Etymology: the repeto ,comes from the word repeat, as he repeats his mistake. the cognosco it latin for examin, as he examins the mistake and realises it is stupid but continues to repeat it anyway

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COMMENTS:

i no its confusing, 4 give me - happyhippy, 2008-08-02: 06:13:00

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: re-sid-ee-ot-ism

Sentence: The first two times he tried to eat the wax fruit on her dining room table, she thought it was quirky ... but after that she started to suspect it was recidiotism.

Etymology: RECID and ISM from RECIDIVISM (repeated or habitual relapse)with IDIOT inserted in the middle

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COMMENTS:

Good word. - ErWenn, 2007-06-07: 14:26:00

Wish I could give you both of my votes. - Clayton, 2007-06-07: 18:17:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sna foo bar

Sentence: The fact that Jim was almost broke again, late for supper again, his bile duct was doing the Liverdance again and his wife was waiting to kill him when he got home again, did not prevent him from doing the snafubar thing of ordering another one for the road.

Etymology: Blend of 2 American WW 11 military slang acronyms:SNAFU (Situation Normal, All F***ed or Fouled Up and FUBAR (F***ed or Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: rēdoōfəs

Sentence: Eric is a redoofus. He doesn*t mean to make the same mistakes over and over. It*s just that he is a very habitual person. Once he has goofed twice, he has developed a reflex. Even when he has time to ponder a decision, he overthinks it and usually corrects the correction back to the error.

Etymology: redo (do something again or differently) + doofus (a stupid person)

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COMMENTS:

funny...love it - mrskellyscl, 2009-12-31: 06:05:00

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Created by: iago150

Pronunciation:

Sentence: After the fourth slap in the face, he realized that he was just repligressing.

Etymology: Replicate + trangress

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: doh! + bull + take

Sentence: She flung a plate at him which shattered, but it missed so she was angry enough for a dohbletake and threw another.

Etymology: Doh!

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: blun der lust

Sentence: After one beer, Joey was programmed for blunderlust...he'd make the mistake of ordering one after another until he'd found yonderlust. His errors were costly, causing him squanderlust. And the next day he felt wonderlust at why his head pounded like thunderlust.

Etymology: Blunder (error, mistake) & Wanderlust (strong or irrestible impulse or urge)

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: mis/fudj/ment

Sentence: Not willing to admit that he kept making the same mistake over and over again, Joel once again convinced himself that his decision to have that midnight latte the night before his 6 a.m. presentation was nothing more than a misfudgement...something a 5 a.m. latte could cure.

Etymology: Derived from misjudgement. Fudge: Slang/nice way of saying...yes...the "f" word. :)

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