Verboticisms

Created by: mjmlabs

Pronunciation: uh-FAY-shuh

Sentence: Dan's got to be very careful when he goes out drinking; last weekend, his afacia almost got the two of us killed or arrested, I'm not sure which.

Etymology: Aphasia ("partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain caused by injury or disease") + a cheap pun on "face"

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COMMENTS:

Well done! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-09: 14:50:00

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Created by: whipspeak

Pronunciation: Cueless - rhymes with clueless.

Sentence: "That guy is cueless... "

Etymology: Clueless: missing necessary information + cue (short for non-verbal cue)

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Created by: Eequal5

Pronunciation: un-fase-y-al-able

Sentence: He is so unfacialalbe that he couldnt tell his mom was angry.

Etymology: un:not fac:face ial:Expression able:able

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: dis - fa- say -de -ol -i -gee

Sentence: I thought I knew what the smile meant, but I suffer from disfacadiology. (Also: I am disfacadilogical)

Etymology: dis + facade + ology

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Created by: weareallbeautiful

Pronunciation: f-ay-sh-uh-l-oo-z-r

Sentence: The guy who lived down the street from me was such a facialoser he thought i was being nice when i was insulting him.

Etymology: facial+loser

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Created by: duchessella

Pronunciation: mal-FA-ci-o-reed

Sentence: He keeps malfacioireading people and hence giving wrong responses; that is embarrassing.

Etymology: Mal = wrong, bad, mistake Facio = facial Read = read, interpret, understand (as in palm-reading)

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: oh-BLIV-o-path

Sentence: Only an oblivopath would think he looked happy about being kissed by her pet skunk.

Etymology: 'obliv' from oblivious + 'path' from the suffix of empath (one who actually has empathy or understanding of another's feelings) = one who is oblivious to the feelings of another as represented by their facial expressions.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: obb liv is aaj

Sentence: he was so totally oblivisage to the opposite sex that he mistook that grimace and the gagging sound for interest, and started to bulk buy all the Brut after shave he could find.

Etymology: oblivious, visage

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COMMENTS:

Makes you sound smart when you say it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-09: 08:56:00

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: dis-cogni-fy

Sentence: He completely discognified her defensive monkey-smile for an open invitation into deeper conversation. She discognified my looks on her T-Shirt for interest in her *oops*, but actually i was only interested in the printing-technique of the message on her chest.

Etymology: dissonance = reduced to "dis" cognitare = latin for recognize identify dissonance + cognitare + identify = discognify.

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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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