Verboticisms

Created by: duchessella

Pronunciation: aw-to-dis-co-MU-ti-late

Sentence: He autodiscomutilated with the newest Windows Vista.

Etymology: auto = self disco = any type of discs (CDs, DVDs, VCDs, CD-ROMs, etc.) mutilate = mutilation of both the physical self and the mental self

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good one! - galwaywegian, 2007-05-15: 07:17:00

nice! - heartnsoul, 2007-05-16: 01:48:00

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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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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Syk-o-pak-tik

Sentence: After many hours trying to open the new CD he had bought without success. He eventually became so psycopacktic that his wife was left with no choice but to call the doctor, who then decided to sedate him before he got any worse.

Etymology: Psycho(psychotic) + Pack(package) + Tic(a nervous muscle spasm) = Psycopacktic

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Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Symptoms of impenetramediatitis include gibbering, whimpering, and bleeding from the fingers.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: rap skal leon

Sentence: The Cd's and Dvd's were so painful to open, that George suspected an unscrupulous wrapscallion plot was afoot. Yes after careful examination, he decided it was a nefarious scheme, the same one which kept the elderly from getting at their meds' bottles. Or the unenlightened to try and open a package of sticky notes. Why even the clever new knife designed specifically to open such hard plastic packages came in one...what was the world coming to???

Etymology: Wrap (packaging;the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped) & Rapscallion (a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel)

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COMMENTS:

brilliant! - libertybelle, 2011-04-19: 08:10:00

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Created by: petersn1

Pronunciation: shrink-a-toma

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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: 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: Osomatic

Pronunciation: peel + lamentation

Sentence: My word today is "peelamentation."

Etymology: peel + lamentation

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: package -otto- me

Sentence: she was reduced to packagotomy while trying to open her new software.

Etymology: package - boxing material otomy - removal

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