Verboticisms

Created by: ldikarev

Pronunciation: fyoo til ee zation

Sentence: Moment of truth had come... and left, and nothing exploded. Feeling of futilization enveloped the somber group of would-be demolition men.

Etymology: futility +realization

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Created by: greytellie

Pronunciation: oh-sh-it-fak-tor

Sentence: Staring at my formerly white dress shirts and one bright red sock, I had an oceitfactor.

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: frag plus point

Sentence: When the ship of dark shadows finally caught her she simply knew that she reached the fragpoint where all her dreams were BFG9000t to pieces...

Etymology: .Frag. from fragmentation, fragmented aka blasted to pieces plus .Breakpoint. the worst case for a point of no return ||| together FRAGPOINT. After that you feel SOULFRAGGED.

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Created by: AnnieChandon

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: apok/a/laps

Sentence: He was running his best 10k ever when he suddenly realized he wasn't really ahead of the pack but in the wrong race

Etymology: apocalypse + lapse

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: DUH-pif-anee

Sentence: Rodger had worked on his presentation for weeks. Everything hinged on his ability to explain his radical new concept to the executive committee. The fact that he was in a room full of knodding heads didn't prepare Rodger for the duhpiphany moment that was heading towards him at break-neck speed. One properly-placed stupid question was about to send him back to square one.

Etymology: Duh: (as in DUH!) combined with epiphany: (a moment of sudden revelation or insight)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: viz - jun - err - or - ee

Sentence: Leticia became a visionerrory when she realized that her lifetime goal of completing her Master's Degree was not going to happen. Her professor had realized that Leticia plagiarized her final paper and it all came crashing down in a moment.

Etymology: visionary, error

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: DEV-a-start-shun

Sentence: When I found that the turkey had burned to total blackness - that was when the devastartion sank in... out I went to buy a new turkey.

Etymology: A play on the word DEVESTATION - only with the word 'START' replacing the STAT in the middle to reference starting over.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hap pee ever dis ast er

Sentence: Once upon a time, when your old flame turned up at our wedding, I knew that I would be marooned. She was not there as an invited guest, but a date for the bridegroom! And they lived happyeverdisaster...

Etymology: Wordplay opposite of Happily Ever After, the fairy tale ending...

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Created by: daisy

Pronunciation: oops-i-doo-zee

Sentence: "Oopsidoozy", said President Bush. "I would like a do-over on the Iraq war if that's ok"

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