Verboticisms

Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: floor/it

Sentence: The group of runners in their little silky shorts ignored the traffic signal. She grinned as she gunned it and said "Yeehaw, a group of floorits!"

Etymology: Floor: Put the pedal to the medal. It

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: stamp-hurd

Sentence: The concrete was supposed to last for years but it is no match for the stampherd. Their daily footfalls have caused the city to replace crumbled sidewalk several times in the past few years.

Etymology: stamp (to bring the foot down forcibly or smartly on the ground, floor, etc) + stampede (a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight of a herd of frightened animals, especially cattle or horses) + herd (a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock)

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: trak/pak

Sentence: The trackpack parted the crowd like Moses parting the Red Sea

Etymology: Track + pack

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Created by: rickki

Pronunciation: amaurotang is a mixture of amaurotic which means blindness and gang. said like am-or-o-tang

Sentence: "Gosh look at that amorotang mum!"

Etymology:

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: egotrippers

Sentence: they are a bunch of egotrippers

Etymology: ego and tripping as in beeing totally in yourselve.

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: Djogg-mobb

Sentence: As he crossed the intersection, John felt some shaking in the Hummvee's suspension; he had just run over a whole jogmob! And looking back he saw that it was the complete Olympics marathon-team!

Etymology: to jog + a mob

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: shu/klux/klan

Sentence: After dark, on a rain slicked road the shoekluxklan, reflective stripes glowing eerily, thundered past, eyes forward, a single goal in mind - burning calories

Etymology: shoe +Ku Klux Klan

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COMMENTS:

scary but funny - porsche, 2007-03-01: 10:59:00

Best word of the day! Funny and pokes fun at runners and racers and racists - multi-layered humour. Now what's a good word for multi-layered intelligent humour? How about 'bantier'? - Stevenson0, 2007-03-01: 11:47:00

how about witfulness? - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-01: 13:26:00

Whimsiwhizwit. Naw, looks Russian. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 14:05:00

looks like you might get snowed in again purple - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-01: 16:16:00

Thanks for the warning Jabber. Looks like freezing rain and a melting of the snow. My sump pump will be getting a good workout. My state's weather motto - we put the "vain" in Pennsylvainia. (My spelling, of course.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-01: 18:27:00

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: pricks + pack

Sentence: I got bowled over by that a prickspack this morning - why can't they look where they're going?

Etymology: Well, you've heard of a six pack...

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: so shee o path leetz

Sentence: Every Saturday you could see them running through the neighborhood. The 8 of them called themselves The Marrythoners, as they had all met while in marathon training and ended up marrying each other. We however called them the Sociopathletes. When they set out each weekend, they travelled as one and ignored traffic rules and basic mores of society. They thought they were Kings of the Road but we thought they were Things Needing Towed. They set race relations way back...

Etymology: Sociopath (someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') & Social (a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity;marked by friendly companionship with others) & Athletes (a person trained to compete in sports)

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COMMENTS:

If everyone were a sociopath what would normal be? - artr, 2009-09-21: 11:29:00

nice:) - galwaywegian, 2009-09-21: 14:30:00

hehe, like it... - mweinmann, 2009-09-23: 08:57:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: pak-haz-erd

Sentence: The running club group was off and running in it's typical packhazard fasion, ignoring traffic and traffic signals, pedestrians and anything else that might get in their way.

Etymology: Blend of pack and hazard, play on the work haphazard

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