Verboticisms

Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: de - base - ment

Sentence: As George scored the neurobiology exam, he discovered one of the most severe case of debassment he had ever seen. A student had answered every question only with the phrase "Insane in the membrane."

Etymology: debasement (to reduce in quality or value) + bass (guitar)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: stew pid ittee

Sentence: she was pretty such a pity 'bout the ditty induced stupiditty

Etymology: stupidity, ditty.

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COMMENTS:

Good lyricling. You get my vote. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-18: 18:03:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sin-app-ing

Sentence: Sinead was synapping, her toes tapping and her fingers snapping to the cringeworthy pop tune. But no matter how hard she tried she couldn't snap out of it to work on her tax return.

Etymology: snap (your fingers to the beat) + synapse (connections in your brain) + nap (sleep)

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: mu-si-eck-O-sis

Sentence: Bob didn't feel well and being a great believer in an alternative healer, named Gleestruck, went to see him. Gleestruck suggested that Bob listen, at least 111 times, to the pop melodyssey, "Macarthur Park". When he returned (or retuned) a few days later the healer asked him, "How are you?" Bob replied, "The song has ended, but the malady lingers on." A few days later,when the annoying pop song would not stop endlessly repeating itself in his mind; Bob, although not wishing to appear a melingerer, sought treatment at his local hospital, where a doctor told him he was suffering from musiechosis or, as it is commonly known, popmentiplay.

Etymology: Musiechosis:musi/c+ech/o+osis:condition Gleestruck-glee(OE)music+struck:smitten Melingerer-mel/ody+ ma/lingerer. Popmentiplay-pop(song)+ment:(mind)+play

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: breyn-fart-pop

Sentence: She laid awake with the "Popcorn" song from her childhood repeating ad nauseum in her head, which was at least moderatley tolerable. Her boyfriend suffered from brainfartpop too, last week he was dealing with Falco's "Der Kommissar".

Etymology: brain fart (moment of dementia) + pop (as in pop music)

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Created by: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I cannot get this damn brainstopper out of my head

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Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: dit-E-ditz-E

Sentence: In a strange twist of events, Marcia became the top salesperson of the month at the Hummer dealership. Each time she would be with a customer and start to say "Hummer," she would break into a rendition of the Black Eyed Peas "My Humps," much to the delight of her mostly male customer base.

Etymology: dittty (song) + ditzy (scatterbrained)

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Created by: akvoD3

Pronunciation: REHP-eh-can-shun

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Etymology: repeat + cancion (Spanish)

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Created by: sweetclarity

Pronunciation: In-com-pop-tence.

Sentence: They threatened to fire her for incompoptence when she spent her whole workday humming 'Oops, I Did It Again!' instead of answering the phone.

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: toon-struk

Sentence: Purpleartichokes got tunestruck when the Meatloaf tune "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" literally did just that.

Etymology: moonstruck, tune

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COMMENTS:

Yep, that's the current song that has me dittywitted. - purpleartichokes, 2007-08-17: 06:47:00

Poor you...got my sympathy vote! - remistram, 2007-08-17: 09:22:00

I'm being tunestruck at this moment by that terrible tune by Kylie Minogue," I Can't Get You Out Of My Head". Great word- you get my vote. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-17: 19:22:00

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