Verboticisms

Created by: heb319

Pronunciation: voy-er-a-staw-ker

Sentence: One who has been watching and photographing a "friend" and then spends time at home obsessed with looking through and creating art with photographs of the person about whom he obsesses.

Etymology: Derived from voyeur, "one who likes to watch" and stalker, "one who obsessively follows, terrorizes, or harrasses another"

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Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation: dAt-nü-'män

Sentence: His protestations that he'd invited me over just for beer and pizza continued until the datenouement - looking for the bathroom, I found an entire wall devoted to enlarged photos from my facebook page.

Etymology: denouement & date

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: tear + ih + foal + ee + oh

Sentence: She's got a terrifolio of me? Oh my gosh, I need to move to a new city!

Etymology: terrify + portfolio

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: true man tie zd

Sentence: she was severely trumantised by joe's very misguided and very public affection.

Etymology: truman show, traumatised

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COMMENTS:

No doubt Joe was just trying to be trumantic. - petaj, 2007-04-25: 05:24:00

how true, man - galwaywegian, 2007-04-25: 05:39:00

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: creep GAL er e

Sentence: When Jill stumbled upon Jack's creepgallery, she knew he'd become a real creep. How DID he get those pictures? His collection revealed he'd really fallen for her. Who would want a picture of her picking her nose? Jill was certain Jack's fall last year had warped her friend's frontal cortex (or whatever part of the brain responsible for judgement and reason)!

Etymology: From: creep (the noun and verb) and gallery.

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈstɑkəɡˌnaɪz/

Sentence: The first time you stalkognize anyone, it's mildly flattering for a moment, but it gets creepy _really_ quickly.

Etymology: From stalk + recognize

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Created by: jonzerofourteen

Pronunciation: mee dee ah gast

Sentence: Penny was more than horrified when she saw Tom's photographic display. In fact her moment of mediaghast had rendered her completely speechless.

Etymology: media (collective noun for information storage - photo, video etc) + aghast (struck with fear, dread, or consternation)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kōvərtroōzhən

Sentence: Marsha thought it was a good thing when she saw \"video surveillance\" in the ad for an apartment. When she found a hidden camera in her bedroom wall she wasn’t so sure. The covertrusion was complete when she discovered one in the bathroom. Litigation is pending.

Etymology: covert (not openly acknowledged or displayed) + intrusion (the action of intruding)

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: pin-up-oh-pree-at

Sentence: Neil's collection of several hundred photos of Shelley was wildly pinupropriate. His Canonising had gone too far.

Etymology: pin up (a large photo) + inappropriate (not proper or suitable)

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Created by: airlie

Pronunciation: kree-PIF-uh-nee

Sentence: Oh my gosh Susan, I was over at Jeremy's house and he showed me all these photos and videos of me. I'm totally enschwined there! My head was even photoshopped on his sister's body and he has a video of me in the shower at the gym! I'm so freaked out, it was a total creepiphany! I can't believe I thought he wanted to be "just friends"!

Etymology: CREEP: a boring, disturbingly eccentric, painfully introverted, or obnoxious person who is frightening or repellent + EPIPHANY: a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something.

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COMMENTS:

Like the sound of it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-04: 06:36:00

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