Verboticisms

Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: dizz-vizz

Sentence: "When she makes that face, I have such bad disvis. Is she crying or laughing?" "You're such a disvis, I'm laughing."

Etymology: 'dis'- not or taken/removed 'vis'- visual and visage (face and see)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: in/dis/grim/ass/nay/shun

Sentence: His lack of indisgrimacenation led to many embarrassing encounters at the singles bar.

Etymology: indiscrimination (making no distinctions, confused) + grimace (facial expression)

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COMMENTS:

vERY NICE. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-10: 05:28:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: cue-pid

Sentence: Cupid's arrows never came to Rick because he was too cuepid to see that Cindy was giving him her "come hither" look. Thinking she was about to sneeze, he pulled out his H1N1 mask, hand sanitizer and his pocket pack of Lysol before heading toward the bar, leaving her quite puzzled.

Etymology: cue: signal, prompt, hint + stupid: lacking common sense, perception or normal intelligence

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COMMENTS:

cuete word - Nosila, 2009-11-25: 23:06:00

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Created by: jalvarado6

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: In - too - WISH - uhn

Sentence: Darryl's friends joked behind his back that he had great intowishin'....whatever expression someone, especially girls, might have on their face, Darryl always 'interpreted' it to be whatever he was wishin' it might be.

Etymology: Blend of into and wishing...or wishin'. A play on the word 'intuition'.

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COMMENTS:

Very inventive! ...Wishin' I thought of that one. Really clever. - Tigger, 2008-07-09: 01:38:00

cLEVER - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-10: 05:18:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: miss/guys

Sentence: He would always misguise the apprehensive looks on co-workers faces and consequently talk to his boss when it was an inappropriate time

Etymology: miss + guise

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Can also be used as a noun. My boss wears a misguise every day. He always looks like he's smiling, even when he's pissed off. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-09: 08:55:00

Great word because most guys miss these signals! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-09: 12:31:00

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Created by: Kurisu

Pronunciation: TRANS-sub-siko-ation

Sentence: I thought I was just being friendly, but his behavior revealed transubpsychoation.

Etymology: Trans: of, relating to, or characterized by + Sub: to act as a substitute + Pyscho: a deranged or psychopathic person + Ation: action or process : something connected with an action or process

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Created by: Sharpedgeshurt

Pronunciation: Anti-Dys-uh-fa-shull-izm

Sentence: When Bob looked in to her eyes, he knew, or he thought he knew, by her smile, or was it a wince?, or a moan?--Actually, she was probably asleep--Anyway, Bob had antidisefacialism, and continued staring in to her sleeping face trying to figure out what it meant.

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Created by: brandonmarrotte

Pronunciation: (Fig-gilo-cious)

Sentence: I am figgiloucious because I can not recognize facial expressions of my many wives.

Etymology: Fig-to see, Gillo- to misunderstand

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: vis a jeen ee us

Sentence: Jerome thought he was such a visagenious when it came to reading the faces of young ladies he fancied. He could not have been more wrong. He always misinterpreted a "yikes" look as enthusiasm. Which explains why he never has a date...

Etymology: Visage (face;countenance) & Genius (unusual mental ability;a natural talent)

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