Verboticisms

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Shring-crap

Sentence: I felt that I grew dumber as I fumbled with the CD case trying to open it. Within minutes, I found myself smashing the case against my head in a failed attempt to open it. It wasn't until I tried using scissors, and damaging the CD, that I had known I had been truely shrinkwrapped.

Etymology: Shrinkwrap (annoying plastic on CD case) + crap (term of frustration; as in "Crap! I can't get this stupid plastic off.")

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: plas-toe-mas-o-chi-zel-ize

Sentence: Perhaps it was because she had found out there was no Santa Claus at the tender age of 14, but Gorzillia just loved opening presents she bought for herself. Being a lover of all things hi-tech and entertaining, a lot of the gifts to herself were secured in plastic which required patience as well as a chisel to open. She loved the process, even when it caused her to shed blood. What she didn't know, of course, was that the pleasure she derived from this adventure was called plastomasochiselization.

Etymology: From plastic, a synthetically produced molded material + masochism, a psychological disorder which produces pleasure from physical pain + chisel, a metal tool used to cut or shape

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Created by: DaddiezGyrl

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I opened it carefully, to avoid getting shrinkcut.

Etymology: Combo of shrink+cut

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: in/ad/ah/kwa/see/dee

Sentence: Every day he was faced with his inadequacedey because he worked in a shrink wrap testing lab. Often he was reduced to tears (tairs).

Etymology: inadequacy + CD + cede (surrender)

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Created by: geoamnesia

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Sentence: Mary whimpered softly as she accepted the gift DVD, she was already wrapjured, but her friends were watching and she had to go through with it.

Etymology: Wrap - shrink-wrap + injure

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: inka - rap - eh - taat

Sentence: Marcy managaed to incawrapitate herself on the "Microsoft Money Matters Most" software container. She messed up her fingernails, cut her hands and mortally wounded her pet monkey when the container went flying across the room.

Etymology: incapacitate (disable), wrap

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COMMENTS:

that's a wrap - Nosila, 2009-11-30: 21:57:00

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: Hay/ch/EM/Van/gue/ish

Sentence: Promoting his newly rigged h-operating system, which he hoped to set sail at a press conference at HMV head quarters, Bob said, "I can't get the package out of the damn pack cage, I can't take this HMVanguish anymore."

Etymology: HMVanguish n. A 3-track splicing of 1. HMV, a moribund multi-national multi-media multiple. 2. HMS-Vanquish, a fictional warship of the British Navy 3. Anguish, mental suffering.

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈsɛləˌpeɪn/

Sentence: It almost seems that as technology gets more advanced and everything else becomes better designed, packaging produces more cellopain, not less.

Etymology: from cellophane + pain

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COMMENTS:

very good!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-15: 12:29:00

I was just about to submit that one ... glad I saw that you'd already done so! Nicely done! - mjmlabs, 2007-05-15: 23:50:00

I've already used up my votes. But if i had one to spare... - petaj, 2007-05-16: 01:55:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: or-dee-oh-viss-er-al

Sentence: On Christmas Day, Natalia was audiovisceral after attempting to open 10 new CDs. She kept smacking herself in the gut when the thin plastic film refused her best snag and pull manoeuvre.

Etymology: audiovisual + visceral

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Hehe! Gives new meaning to the term "gutwrenching". - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-15: 07:47:00

great word Petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-15: 16:56:00

Can also be used to describe a noise that makes you hurl. - petaj, 2007-05-16: 05:14:00

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: "Sh" like in *Sholy-Hit* + "rapped" like in *trapped* and/or in *shrinkwrapped*.

Sentence: He was bruce-absolute-lee trapped in shrinkophrenic autoaggression - he was "shrapped". He shrapped himself to death. She shrapped her nails off to ground zero.

Etymology: Evolved through several evolutionhairy steps from autopackaggressive over shrinkoscratchic, shrinkwrapautoaggression, pacgkgressive , shrinkophrene and autoshrappive into the final form of "trapped in shrinkophrenic autoaggression" - or short: "shrapped".

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COMMENTS:

verbotomy needs more words like this, words that are evocative of their definitions rather than just two words smooshed together. well done. - benjamin, 2007-05-15: 09:50:00

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