Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: in/tokes/i/cay/ted

Sentence: To be intoexicated one must know the degree of point that is acceptable for every outfit.

Etymology: intoxicated + in + toe

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COMMENTS:

Toetally! - Nosila, 2008-06-02: 23:31:00

Good one. - Tigger, 2008-06-03: 00:29:00

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: shoo-per-holl-ik

Sentence: a quick glance in her closet was enough to confirm that she was a hopeless shoepperholic

Etymology: shoe, shopperholic

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: im/pedi/kew/nee/us

Sentence: Sally was so impedicunious that when she finally found herself homeless she was able to build a shelter made entirely of shoes. She even landscaped with shoe trees.

Etymology: impecunious (having little or no money) + pedi (to do with the foot)

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COMMENTS:

Love the shoe trees! I'm going to put them in my yard - wordmeister, 2008-06-02: 13:54:00

I remember her tootin' on her shoe horn and her 'shoe' fly pie is the best there is. - Mustang, 2008-06-02: 20:46:00

At least she had some shubbbery - funny sentence and good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-02: 22:50:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: hee/leo/trow/pizm

Sentence: Sally had an advanced case of heeliotropism and could not restrain herself from purchasing shoes with higher and higher heels.

Etymology: heliotropism (an involuntary response to the sun's rays) + heel

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COMMENTS:

She's a heeliotramp! - Nosila, 2009-07-20: 12:14:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mok a sin ner

Sentence: Shoesan was a macassiner of the first order. No matter what else she needed, she indulged her addiction to shoes, all kinds. She put the "oaf" in loafer; the "heel" in heels;the "flop" in flipflops;the "sneak" in sneaker;the "scandal" in sandal and the "oo" in Jimmy Choo's. Unlike her 5,000 pairs of shoes,she was a vamp, she'd pump her hubby for shoe money and she had no sole.

Etymology: Mocassin (soft leather shoe; originally worn by native Americans)& Sinner (someone who is bad, commit sins without repenting)

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Created by: lilyk12342

Pronunciation:

Sentence: She has a serious case of pedomania

Etymology: ped-foot mania-mental derangement characterized by obsession and delusions

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: feh - TISH- oo

Sentence: Fetishoe. Gesundheit. her shoe shopping penchant was an illness.

Etymology: fetish + shoe + atishoo (sneeze)

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: sty LET oh

Sentence: Candy just loves buying sexy and stylish new shoes from places like Needless Markup - oops, I mean Neiman Marcus. She must have 150 pairs - no, I'm not kidding. She and her husband built an addition onto their bedroom, which they tell everyone was for the luxury bathroom, but really it was so that they could have a walk-in closet - just to hold all her shoes. Her husband was thinking of retiring early on the money he had made as an investment banker, but it isn't going to happen now, between the second mortgage and all the expensive shoes. But he loves and adores her - he calls her his little styletto.

Etymology: style + stiletto

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: eh-MEL-dah-ranjd

Sentence: Juanita was absolutely imeldaranged, caught up in a compulsion to buy any and every pair of shoes or other footwear that caught her eye.

Etymology: Blend of 'Imelda' (well known shoe nut Imelda Marcos) and deranged (mentally disturbed)

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Created by: 818466

Pronunciation: ped-troph-e

Sentence: The sales women was looking around the store for a helpless person in need and laid eyes on a man that seemed in need of help, when she went to grab the shoes f his choice and returned she realized that he had pedtrophey and ruined her day.

Etymology: ped- feet. troph- to nourish

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