Verboticisms

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: sale/oo/bree/us

Sentence: What do you mean?? I have a very saleubrious attitude towards shopping.

Etymology: sale + salubrious (healthful)

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Created by: aleximrie

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Sentence: Jane's boyfriend was slowly going mad. Jane's constant fallashopping was really eating into their savings.

Etymology: fallacy + shop

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Created by: looseball

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Created by: deathsweep

Pronunciation: foo lo cious ness

Sentence: Juanita really showed her foolociousness when she came home with a case of cock-rings.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dee/loo/shun/al

Sentence: Bart was completely dealusional and continued to stockpile worthless 'bargains'.

Etymology: deal + delusion

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COMMENTS:

Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-16: 18:55:00

It's the real deal, Stevo! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-16: 21:41:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: deel/loo/shun/al

Sentence: Joe became completely dealusional about the value of any item, no matter how obsolete, if it was marked down 70%, or more.

Etymology: DEALUSIONAL - from DEAL (a bargain) + DELUSIONAL (a false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence)

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COMMENTS:

My fave! Gets my vote. :) - lumina, 2008-10-16: 00:56:00

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Created by: verbotomer

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌbəlˌbɜːrsɚ/

Sentence: n. "The bank wouldn't give me a loan because they think I'm a bubblebursar"; vt. "The reason you never have any money is because you always bubbleburse it all away!"

Etymology: fr. bubble: an inflated speculation; + bursar: an official in charge of funds, as at a college or university... A bubblebursar is a student in the university of life, who is all-too-prepared to part with his funds in exchange for goods or services he values too highly

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: FAN-ta-sale

Sentence: Karen labored under the fantasale that she was being frugal by buying all of the remaining Halloween candy in November and then freezing it for next year. Sadly it never stayed frozen long enough to be handed out.

Etymology: Fantasy + sale

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: frue-GAL-uh-few-tyl

Sentence: Ramon thought he was being cagey in buying up fantastic bargains even though he had no use for them and while other thought his efforts were frugalifutile at best, he continued to consider himself to be shrewd and thoughtful.

Etymology: Blend of frugal and futile

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: deel link wen see

Sentence: Dealoren's dealinquency was not dealiberate. He dealed dealightfully with any deals dealiberated upon in his dealusional family. His wife, Dealilah had a dealcidedly deafferent view of what was a good deal. She learned early on not to dealagate dealicate deliberations to Dealoren. For her, his dealight in dealuging her with dealiverable deals posed a huge dealemma. Through sheer due dealigence, she dealayed dealciding which expenses to dealete from her budget. If only she could find a spouse who would dealete deals from dealicatessens and deal with dealettantes and other deals in a dealiscious dealivery. Otherwise, she would be called dealvious!

Etymology: Deal ( do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood;come to terms or deal successfully with) & Deliquency (a tendency to be negligent and uncaring;nonpayment of a debt when due)

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COMMENTS:

Let's make a dealinquency! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 12:09:00

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