Verboticisms

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: LIR-ik-zorbd

Sentence: After hearing a favorite song, Alice would often become absolutely lyricsorbed and finding herself becoming increasingly annoyed to not be able to stop repeating the song over and over in her mind thru the day.

Etymology: Blend of lyrics (the words of a song) and absorbed (engrossed; deeply interested)

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Created by: iwasatripwire

Pronunciation: re-dum-dun-see

Sentence: "Tubthumping" caused such a severe case of redumbdancy that Karen was unable to study for over a week

Etymology: dumb + redundancy

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Created by: alphabetapolothology

Pronunciation: a-HA-morrage

Sentence: The ahamorrage became worse and worse until she could do nothing but stare into space and mumble "take on me, take me on."

Etymology: The 80's band A-ha & hemorrage.

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Created by: dovey1

Pronunciation: rE pet ti tune Itis

Sentence: I have been suffering all day with a very bad case of repetitunitis.

Etymology: repeti for repetitive -pertaining to or characterized by repetition. tun for tune- to put a musical instrument in tune (often fol. by up). to give forth a musical sound. to be in harmony or accord; become responsive. itis for itis-a suffix used in pathological terms that denote inflammation of an organ (bronchitis; gastritis; neuritis) and hence, in extended senses, nouns denoting abnormal states or conditions, excesses, tendencies, obsessions, etc. (telephonitis; baseballitis).

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COMMENTS:

Excellent first attempt,dovey1, welcome aboard! - Nosila, 2009-09-11: 23:35:00

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: tune + loony

Sentence: Arg, "Sexy Back" is stuck in my head and it's driving my tuneloony!

Etymology: Guess. :)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: repəditēəs

Sentence: Rob’s morning is repedittious. Maybe his resistance was down due to a lack of restful sleep, maybe he needed more coffee but an insipid jingle from a commercial bore it’s way into his head and laid eggs. Nothing short of blasting caps seems to be able to remove it. ”The best part of waking up...” He doesn’t even drink coffee.

Etymology: repetitious (over and over esp. when unnecessary or tiresome) + ditty (a short simple song)

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: pop-tar-ded

Sentence: Alex was rendered poptarded by his inability to think of anything but that stupid song he had heard on the radio this morning.

Etymology: pop - (i.e. pop culture) + tarded - (i.e. reduced)

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Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I'm so catalyrical after listening to Barry Manilow that I can't do anything requiring thought.

Etymology: catatonic meaning an abnormal condition variously characterized by stupor lyrics meaning words to a song

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Diss-kog-nish-shun

Sentence: She tried her best to focus on the lecturer, but all she could hear in her head was "Asereje! Aha! Ahe!" (and further Spanish pop gibberish).

Etymology: Disco + dis- + cognitive. Cognitive: to do with thinking.

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: MUSE-ick-CRAP-pet-a- tiff

Sentence: Bald-headed John drove around the block too many times, with his ugly euro-pod Toyota blaring annoying subsonic vibrations which were intelligible only to him. He got a gold tooth and called everyone "Dawg" but was ulimately shunned by his peers. As he lay in bed with no hopes of consummating his puerile desires, many stanzas of bogus "samples" and heathen drumbeats drilled into his head like a tasteless, regrettable tattoo.

Etymology: Gran Torino.

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Cheers, Dawg... - Nosila, 2009-09-11: 01:08:00

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