Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: sly/ball

Sentence: Whenever she passed a reflective surface, she would slyball her image to ensure she was prim, proper and still pretty.

Etymology: sly + eyeball

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Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-28: 15:45:00

Absolutely love it! Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-29: 03:13:00

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Created by: maryamwebster

Pronunciation: ree-FLEK-to-chek

Sentence: I had to reflectocheck my lipstick because Betty kept looking pointedly at me and wiping her mouth. Or: The way Bob was looking at me, I wondered if something was hanging out of my nose. Thank goodness, a quick reflectocheck proved otherwise.

Etymology: reflect = a self-image as seen in mirror form check = to take notice of

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COMMENTS:

Nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-29: 17:35:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: spoon/ur/vision

Sentence: Owing to her constant spoonervisions she bought belly jeans instead of jelly beans.

Etymology: spoonerism + vision

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Created by: catwhipple

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Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: Glim-spĭf

Sentence: Madeline took a quick glimspif, at her reflection in the store window, to be sure her hair was still ok.

Etymology: Glimpse: a very brief, passing look, sight, or view. + Spiff: To make attractive, stylish, or up-to-date.

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Created by: Niktionary

Pronunciation: nar-seh-kreet-ehv

Sentence: When Darcy met Rex, she knew she had found "the one". As he was checking himself out in the glass while sitting at the bar, she knew any man as narsicretive as her had to be a keeper.

Etymology: narcicism-secretive-creative

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Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation: vain-check

Sentence: that woman keeps vainchecking in her spoon

Etymology: vain+check kinda like rain check

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COMMENTS:

Quick and clever ... I like it! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-01: 19:59:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /kroh-meg-uh-loh-mey'-nee-uh/

Sentence: When Ben showed Vanessa the engine of his hotrod, at first he thought she was really 'into' cars by the way her eyes lit up, and that she was leaning over to admire his custom-chromed exhaust manifold, until he realized she was just admiring herself and checking her make-up.

Etymology: chrome - chromium, or other shiny metallic plating (from Greek, khroma "color") + megalomania - having delusion of greatness (from Greek, megas "great" & mania "madness")

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Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: sigh-t-see-t-her

Sentence: Her eyes couldn't pass a relective surface without a quick sightceiter.

Etymology: sight for seeing - ceit from conceit - er for her ... and all being a play on the word sightseer.

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Created by: sharktrager

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Sentence: Narcissus: the Father of Reflexers

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