Verboticisms

Created by: AnnieChandon

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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: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: stun/vale/ment

Sentence: She was in a complete state of shock when she realized the most important element of her dream wedding was missing - her shoes!

Etymology: unveilment (revelation) + stun (shock)

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COMMENTS:

Good one jabber! - toadstool57, 2007-05-17: 06:46:00

(you can do anything, but lay off of my blue suede shoes...) - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-17: 10:49:00

oh no!! I've been Elvised - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-17: 12:35:00

This word is 261% perfect, trust me I calculated it... I'm a number person ;) - ziggy41, 2007-05-17: 15:22:00

Percent... cent... penny... In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs... There ya go Jabber. You've been Beatled as well! :-) - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-17: 17:57:00

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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: Clayton

Pronunciation: fee-AS-kog-NISH-uhn

Sentence: Dirk put down his stylus, clasping his head and sobbing in a state of paralyzing fiascognition. Those images of albino squirrels weren't gonna un-Photoshop themselves.

Etymology: fiasco + cognition

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COMMENTS:

This is just clever! - texmom, 2007-05-18: 07:24:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Gaff - veh - LAY - shun

Sentence: Miranda experienced a major gaffevelation when she realized too late that she'd given the caterers, the other vendors and the auditorium managers the wrong date for the huge party.

Etymology: Blend of gaffe and revelation

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: suks ses les

Sentence: Everything was perfect on her perfect day. The garden setting for the nuptials was gorgeous;the weather perfect;the 500 guests waiting excitedly. Cara was dressed like a fairy princess, ready to dazzler everyone. Then the bubble burst. Just seconds before she was to walk down the aisle, she got a call from her beloved fiance, Milo. He told her he was not coming and the wedding was off. Stunned, she asked him why he had gone this far,but now could not attend their dream wedding. "I am as upset as you", he said, "But I cannot come today...my wife won't let me!" "Aaaaaagh"! she cried as she tossed the phone into the fountain...why was she dogged with such a sucksessless history? This was the fourth guy in a row who had stood her up at the altar! Always almost a bride, never a bridesmaid.

Etymology: Sucks (used to express disappointment, contempt, or derision) & Success (an event that accomplishes its intended purpose) & Less (lacking;lower in quality)

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: e-pi-fa-need

Sentence: Nano-seconds after the cell phone call from her fiance Brian, while her carefully chosen processional music loomed from the interior of the church, Penny felt the strangest sensation. Its beginning, as her face began to flush, reminded her somewhat of the time she had taken too much niacin. Following this was the awareness that her life was not going to go as so meticulously planned. The thought-sensations, which had begun in her pineal gland, travelled down her spine and into her legs which bent immediately. Her lovely bouquet of almost-mauve roses flew from her hand. There she lay, prostrate before the stunned, but strategically assembled, wedding party. She had been ephipankneed right on the steps of the church.

Etymology: From epiphany, meaning a moment of sudden and great revelation + knee, a verb, meaning to reduce someone to a state of weakness

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COMMENTS:

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-15: 10:44:00

I live for comments! - readerwriter, 2008-08-15: 15:46:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: al-FEE-niks-i-tee

Sentence: Alphoenixity began for Roxie on her wedding day when, standing at the closed doors of St John's Church in Phoenix, Arizona, she was told she should be at St John's Church in Phoenix, Oregon.

Etymology: The state of ALPHA: being the dawning, beginning or outset of awareness that the PHOENIX must rise from the ashes of what has been, or is about to be, destroyed. ITY: the state, quality of being, abnormality.

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COMMENTS:

Oh - now I get it - nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-15: 10:38:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: you reeeeek aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Sentence: her eureekaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh moment came with the suddenness of a cartoon coyote realising that he had left the cliff top three metres ago

Etymology: eureka aaaaaaaaaagh

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COMMENTS:

meep meep - Nosila, 2011-04-21: 19:41:00

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