Verboticisms

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: re-git-err-ayt

Sentence: those damn infomercials with their flashy steak knives and their tempting V-slicers....i try to stay strong but i always end up regiterating.

Etymology: reiterate, git

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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: Tigger

Pronunciation: ree-dum'-duntz

Sentence: Donna was in a good mood - she had just hooked up with a new boyfriend. She'd been visiting her last boyfriend, in prison, when she'd met Spike, just being released on parole. But when Donna called sister to tell her about Spike, her sister said it was another act of 'redumbdunce.' Her last ten boyfriends had all been convicts and criminals.

Etymology: A combination of the words; Redundance (repetition of the same meaning, but using different words), Dumb (lacking in common sense) and Dunce (a person who is stupid or slow to learn)

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COMMENTS:

Happy New Year everyone! - Tigger, 2009-12-31: 01:40:00

And Happy New Year to you! Alas, poor Donna is a creature of conviction! - Nosila, 2009-12-31: 11:01:00

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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: aussieleebee

Pronunciation: Dub-yuh-fy

Sentence:

Etymology: From the mishaps of president George "W" Bush.

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COMMENTS:

Right ON! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-30: 17:25:00

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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: lauramy

Pronunciation: day-zsha-dum

Sentence: It's dumb to hammer your thumb but when you do it again and again, it's dejadum.

Etymology: déjàvu + dumb

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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?

Etymology:

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Created by: Trystera

Pronunciation: air-IN-ee-ull or ur-IN-ee-ul

Sentence: Duane errennially spent his weekly pay on lottery tickets.

Etymology: Err + perennial

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COMMENTS:

Ok, so it's neither of the suggested parts of speech. I like it anyway. - Trystera, 2007-06-07: 17:56:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: blun der as sunder

Sentence: Folly Walnuts was one of the more minor members of the "The Crew". Although his heart and loyalty were in the right places, his brain & judgement had always been away on vacation. When the Mob Boss ordered Folly to off the Secretary of State for his views on organized crime, Folly as per usual misread his instruictions and instead whacked a secretary oft late, which was Miss Tardy A. Lot, who happened to work for Homeland Security. Not only was it a blunderasunder on Folly's part, but he is now enjoying the sunshine and exercise of a Cuban vacation in Gitmo...permanently!

Etymology: Blunder (error;mistake;an embarrassing mistake; make one's way clumsily or blindly; commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake) & Asunder (all over the place; into bits & pieces; everywhere)

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