Verboticisms

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: skinn juhr eeeeeeeeeeeee

Sentence: He skinjured himself on Michael jackson's greatest hits. how is it? his mother called. Bar he replied

Etymology: injury skin

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: ehm - ehs - TEH - roh - rayz

Sentence: After several surgeries on Jane, including allograft, blepharoplasty, hallus valcux correction, nail avulsion, hip hemiarthoplasty, imperforate anus repair, metacarpophalangeal fusion surgery, syndactyly repair, perineal anoplasty, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, and digit revascularization [all these otherwise known as hand surgery], Jane says she will never forget the day she was emestearrorized when she met that dastardly darn Windows Vista shrink-wrapped case.

Etymology: MS [expanded into em-es] [oh, come on! Microsoft and its dastardly darn software] [number one terrorist of the entire generation] + tear [to rip] + terrorize [to spread terror; to be filled with extreme terror; to be subject to a terrorist attack]

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: peel + lamentation

Sentence: My word today is "peelamentation."

Etymology: peel + lamentation

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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: CharlieB

Pronunciation: git-rap-ping

Sentence: The supermarket bosses were laughing up their sleeves. Not only were their gullible consumers buying thousands of unnecessary bog-offs, they'd get home and be unable to successfully open the gitwrapping. Subsequent frustration would inevitably lead to broken DVDs and the consumer would have to go back next day and buy a replacement. Kerching!

Etymology: git (offensive slang for a stupid or annoying person) + wrapping (protective covering on merchandise) + giftwrapping (pretty paper used to cover presents)

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COMMENTS:

you have a git for this... - Nosila, 2011-04-20: 21:36:00

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Created by: heartnsoul

Pronunciation: self-mu-sik-a-shun

Sentence: It was the same horrific scene every Friday: bleary-eyed new-release addicts appeared with paychecks in their bandaged hands to feed their need for selfmusication. The packages always won, but the addicts kept coming!

Etymology: self + music / mutilation

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COMMENTS:

Come on. Admit it. You know you know I mean you! - heartnsoul, 2007-05-16: 01:42:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: SHRIHNGK-grap-puhl

Sentence: Alex sustained two bloodied knuckles from shrinkgrappling with his new DVD.

Etymology: shrink wrap + grapple

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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: 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: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: plass-tee-men-tall

Sentence: New CDs make me plastimental! I wish companies would realise the plastimental nature of shrink wrapping.

Etymology: A combination of the words 'plastic' and 'mental'.

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