Verboticisms

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: mis-cal-cu-li-za-tion

Sentence: The miscalculization happened just as I hit the "send" button. I glanced at the figures and saw that not only was the final budget incorrect, but I had mistakenly sent the report to my boyfriend instead of my supervisor. I wondered where I had sent the "special" photo that was supposed to go to my boyfriend.

Etymology: miscalculation: to count or estimate incorrectly; an error in judgement + realization: to understand clearly and distinctly

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Created by: muddy

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: jak and jilt

Sentence: Jill knew the moment she walked down the aisle that she was having second thoughts about marrying Jack. She was experiencing a jilty conscience, because she realized she didn't know Jack. So when she got up to altar, she decidsed to jackandjilt him. It would have worked better if he was actually there, but Jack had felt the same way and besides Jill would only be jillous of his beautiful wife and children!

Etymology: Jack (a small worthless amount;tool for exerting pressure or lifting) And Jilt (cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly;a woman who jilts a lover) & wordplay on Jack & Jill from fairy tales

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: duh noo mont

Sentence: The duhnouement was swift, painful and quite expensive.

Etymology: denouement, duh

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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: 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: benjamin

Pronunciation: re-krap

Sentence: Lets recrap shall we? You thought you could start a llama farm in Manhattan...?

Etymology: recap (go over) + crap (expression of dissatisfaction)

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Created by: AnnieChandon

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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: pepperpatti

Pronunciation: re-fail-ation

Sentence: She had a huge refailation when three hours before her project was due, she discovered that she had gotten the directions all wrong

Etymology: Revelation: to realize some thing big. Fail: to flunk.

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