Verboticisms

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: sh ow rs

Sentence: the water power and the fantasy life inside her head turned her shower into a shour

Etymology: shower hour

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: sham-par-a-dox

Sentence: David, not recalling if he shampooed his hair, exited the bathroom and grabbed the text book, hoping the shamparadox theory can give him some insight.

Etymology: shampoo/paradox, refering to the black hole information paradox theory by Hawking

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: so-po-FOR-ik

Sentence: I find that eucalyptus shampoo is the most soapophoric for me. Sometimes I even leave my body, but when I return, *somebody* has shaved me...

Etymology: soap (eu) phoric (sopophoric)

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: scrub + aff + ull

Sentence: Sorry I'm late, I got totally scrubaffled in the shower this morning.

Etymology: scrub + baffle

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COMMENTS:

is that pronounced like ms. crabapple on simpsons? - Alchemist, 2007-02-09: 19:53:00

I like this one, I can see myself using this. - erasmus, 2007-02-13: 11:24:00

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Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I relapthered this morning hoping it was indeed the first time I'd washed my hair.

Etymology: from lapse in memory and lather or relather depending on whether your laps is accurate on.

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Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: high-deo-amneesia

Sentence: The unexpected instance of hydroamnesia made him move his hand from the soapy lather on his chest to his feet to make sure he had remembered to first remove his shoes.

Etymology: hydeo - water added to amnesia. Easy, eh?

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Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: warm-hoal

Sentence: Snapping out of a momentary trance caused by the relaxing stream of hot water, I realized that I had just gone through a warmhole.

Etymology: wormhole = a hole in time and space & warm because this wouldn't happen to me if I took a cold shower, that's for sure!

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COMMENTS:

Hehe! It can also cause a woman to forget to shave her left leg...uh... not speaking from experience or anything... - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-09: 06:36:00

Then who's leg was it? - wordmeister, 2007-02-09: 09:36:00

OK... it was mine. But perhaps I just made a hairror and used the wrong side of the razor? - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-09: 11:01:00

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Created by: imagica

Pronunciation: dis-scrub-tonica

Sentence: I'm sorry my hair looks so bad today, I had a brief bout of disscrubtonica in the shower today.

Etymology:

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Created by: kaenif

Pronunciation: [sɛpləˈniːʒə] /sep-luh-NEE-zhuh/

Sentence: Why is your shampoo used up so quickly? I always realise I have washed my hair twice after rinsing. Stupid xeplenesia.

Etymology: Greek ξεπλένω - xepléno - rinse ἀμνησία - amnesia

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: tar diss sham poo

Sentence: Rosie lost all track of time and space when she entered the shower and commenced her tardishampoo. She was running late today and accidentally grabbed the Drano instead, as her eyes were closed to keep out the stinging. When she realized she had grabbed the wrong product, she went to call a doctor for advice, but Dr.Who???

Etymology: TARDIS (Dr.Who's phonebox/spaceship which is an acronym for "TIME AND RELATIVE DIMENSIONS IN SPACE"...it's actually a huge space inside). & Shampoo (to wash, lather and rinse hair & product which cleans hair).

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