Verboticisms

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: s6guy72

Pronunciation: dum-bass-tro-fe

Sentence: Johnny had a dumbasstrophy when he got crabs from the same girl twice.

Etymology: dumbass- english for dumbass, and trophy from catastrophy for a bad event.

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COMMENTS:

Hee...that was a little "nasterous" but still funny AND great word! - lumina, 2008-07-30: 16:55:00

If you get caught by the crabs twice, you deserve to die. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-30: 17:19:00

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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: sanssouci

Pronunciation: Ree Botch u Late

Sentence: "One of my new year resoulutions for 2010 is to try not to rebotchulate this year, time to move on and succeed"

Etymology: recapitulate - To repeat in concise form botch - mistake

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Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: cock-you-pay-shun

Sentence: Ted's main cockupation is phoning his ex girlfriend when he's drunk. But he also has a few sidelines like locking himself out of his house and eating stupidly hot curries when he's on the last few sheets of loo roll.

Etymology: A play on 'occupation'. Cock up + occupation = cockupation. Cock/cock up - a mistake/to make an error. Occupation - an activity or vocation.

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Created by: eurythmech

Pronunciation: re-mis-take

Sentence: That morning started like so many other mornings, with Charlie remistakingly incinerating his breakfast toast.

Etymology: Rather self explainatory :)

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COMMENTS:

The sentence sells it. Elegant simplicity. - celan1, 2007-06-07: 19:52:00

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Created by: Sed8ed

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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: hatman003

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Henry! thats the third time you didn't lock the airplane door are you just making a frodulerg?

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: REE-vee-eyt

Sentence: Gunther's proclivity to reviate was chief among the concerns of the local constabulary. No way was he being left alone with any more cadavers.

Etymology: re + deviate

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COMMENTS:

erk. don't want to speculate on this one. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 03:32:00

Was it him, or the cadavers, that made him neuerrotic? - Stevenson0, 2007-06-07: 08:52:00

blame the victim! it's not the cadavers' fault they're irresistible. - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 09:09:00

Had they not been wearing so little... - Clayton, 2007-06-07: 18:15:00

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