Verboticisms

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: pree nope envee

Sentence: it was just the prenupenvy that kept him alive as she fingered the stainless steel kitchen knife set her aunt had given them.

Etymology: prenup envy

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like she got some wonderful gifts... - wordmeister, 2007-03-27: 06:50:00

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Wedd-din-can-dess-sense

Sentence: She was more than incandescent - she was weddincandescent.

Etymology: See above.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: nyves/in/wyte/satin

Sentence: The discovery of the tryst sent her into a state of knivesinwhitesatin hopefully "never reaching the end"

Etymology: knives (the kind that in literature come flying out of ones eyes) + Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)+ knights + knives and wives rhyme

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COMMENTS:

No Sir Galahad in this tale; very creative word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 07:28:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: bee-tray-thed

Sentence: she went from betrothed to betraythed in record time

Etymology: betrayed, betrothed

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COMMENTS:

Beautifully stated! - catgrin, 2007-03-27: 04:15:00

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: shag + rin

Sentence: Oh, the shagrin I felt when I found them... well, it was more like "murderous rage," but that's hardly a verboticism.

Etymology: shag + chagrin

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COMMENTS:

Nicely done! - urbanwookie, 2007-04-01: 19:26:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sh-itch-t

Sentence: Not only was Coralie shitched, she was also shockled when she realised she was married to rake and would never be able to use the sheets her Nanna had given her.

Etymology: sh*t (exclamation of shock) + hitched (slang for married) (shock + shackled)

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COMMENTS:

love the layers in your words - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 12:22:00

Maybe should have spelt this differently though sheetched - petaj, 2007-03-28: 05:07:00

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Created by: moltentim

Pronunciation: rev/ull/lust/a/shun

Sentence: Jill had a revelustation when she walked in on her husband with the maid.

Etymology: revelation + lust

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COMMENTS:

With the maid? Perhaps he was just trying to clean up his act... - wordmeister, 2007-03-27: 09:11:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mer/rage

Sentence: On finding her new husband and the maid of honour, she went into a state of marrage throwing and breaking everything she could get her hands on.

Etymology: marriage + rage

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COMMENTS:

I considered something similar to this before deciding it didn't really allude to the sheets or the cheats as well as other words might. Marrage, to the casual observer, may as well be a nondescript form of anger directed at one's spouse (to be). It lacks specifics. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 08:00:00

Great word, simple and succinct - you just have to stress the second syllable to get the full effect - try it - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 09:55:00

That's nice (^^), but ditto my previous comment regarding it being too generalised for the definition, and that it makes the assumption that the mental state induced would be one of anger, as opposed to shock, disappointment, disbelief etc. For me, assigning rage as the sole emotion here is myopic. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 11:23:00

methinks we have a psychiatrist in our midst - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 12:19:00

No, just a fool who's seen too many shrinks in his time. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 15:31:00

Certainly not a fool - good sense of humour though - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 19:54:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: bry dal path ol ogee

Sentence: It was a nightmare when Marey found her Groom Ed in bed with her bridesmaid, Fillymena...On the satin sheets that she had begat from her Grandmare, Mustang Sally, of all places and she did not like it one bit! She yelled until she was a little hoarse, okay, just a Quarterhoarse! She experienced Bridalpathology and found a need to harness her mane anxiety and buck the trend to overlook such horseplay. Of course, she knew that Ed had to sew his wild oats, the stud, but really...wasn't he more stable than that after becoming hitched? Spurred by the thoughts of a lengthy court battle and saddled with wrangling high legal fees, she decided divhorse was out of the question, even though he was no longer no pal-o-mino! She would instead pretend to curry Ed's favour, get into her Pinto, drive through the neigh-borhood gaits and go get her sire's Colt 45. No one was going to make a foal out of her! No one was going to rein on her parade or slow her gait, once she shod him, she would remane Appaloosa, whether he ended up in horsepital, gelding better or in an anonymous plod of land. She would live on thorough bread, seabiscuits and ponies of horse liniment if she had to and run off to Canter-bury. That was her tale and she was sticking to it...even if all the horse manure to be guilty!

Etymology: Bridal (of or relating to a wedding )& Pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition;the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases ) & Bridle Path (the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess;a road fit for riders, but not vehicles)

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A narrative that a Mustang would surely find equinable. A tail that even a neigh sayer would consider to be a whinnying entry. - Mustang, 2008-06-11: 07:47:00

Thanks, Mustang...glad it Triggered a Champion response in you. - Nosila, 2008-06-11: 21:45:00

Thanks for the horseplay. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 07:25:00

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Created by: Rutilus

Pronunciation: spows-tra-sized

Sentence: Chloe was mortified. Dan, the man of her dreams or so she thought, humping away with best friend and maid of (dis)honour Jane. The bitch had seduced her new hubby and she had been left truly spoustracised on her special day.

Etymology: spouse - husband or wife; ostracised - forced out, ignored

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COMMENTS:

Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 07:23:00

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