Verboticisms

Created by: scrabler

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Etymology: marathon + herd

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Created by: SoyLocoMoco

Pronunciation: ath-lem-ings

Sentence: That whole pack of athlemmings got crushed when the first one failed to see the truck.

Etymology: athlete + lemmings

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Created by: tamilian

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Sentence: Oh my GOD!They've started the numbathon again!!

Etymology: Numb(dont feel a thing around them)+marathon(running as a group)

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: KRAS-kade

Sentence: Bob was walking along the road by the seaside, munching on a doughnut, when all of sudden a pack of runners careered by. He watched them go by in awe, and the sight was enough to make him toss the doughnut in a bin, and become part of this athplethe. Little did he know that his chance meeting with this crascade and their ranipulations would be the start of a two-hour-long, helotonic roadmare.

Etymology: Blend of crass & cade of motorcade, etc. Crass:lacking in discrimination & sensibilty; -cade: procession of people travelling in motorcars (also cavalcade & cascade). Heletonic : blend of hell & peloton & ic.

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Created by: Heather

Pronunciation: oh-BLIV-ee-hurd

Sentence: Pedestrians were sent scattering by the inexorable approach of the obliviherd.

Etymology: Oblivious (unaware, uncaring) + herd (large number of animals or people travelling together)

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Created by: savta

Pronunciation: ruh - nuh - gram

Sentence: Pedestrians and drivers alike took evasive action as the runagram hurtled towards them.

Etymology: English run; Latin ag- field or open space; English ram (as in battering ram)

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ped-o-ton

Sentence: Pedotons are an occupational hazard around here. It has got so bad that they are putting in pedoton lanes alongside the bike lanes.

Etymology: peleton

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Created by: shifty

Pronunciation: Jor-kers

Sentence: I nearly killed that bunch of jorkers... but they outran my backhoe!

Etymology: Joggers + Jerks / Jokers = Jorkers

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Created by: andbot37

Pronunciation: more-ON-ə-thon-ers

Sentence: MORONITHONERS successfully combine the arts of masochism and mass annoyance by running across the street against cross traffic.

Etymology: Moroni- from moronic Thoners- from marathon

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Created by: drudra

Pronunciation: ig-nohr-uhn-ihm

Sentence: Shortly after the start of the "Round the City" race, one could spot a few ignoruneams at various locations of the race route.

Etymology: [Ignor] from Ignorant + [run] from running + [eam] from team. Ignorant Running Teams - without distinction of leader or follower, ignorant to traffic rules, signals and pedestrians, moving as a team.

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