Verboticisms

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: scrim/bage

Sentence: They got inot a real scrimbage while playing card games

Etymology: scrimmage (struggle) + cribbage

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Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: pet-ee-foh-rs

Sentence: his pettyfours made his partner cringe and wish that the game of tic tac toe would be soon over.

Etymology: petty- from french petit meaning small

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: trivēəldispyoōt

Sentence: It doesn*t matter what board game Gary is playing or who is playing. At some point every game turns into trivialdispute where the minutiae of some rule comes into question.

Etymology: trivial (of little value or importance) + dispute (a disagreement, argument, or debate) a play on Trivial Pursuit

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Created by: serickson

Pronunciation: tur' nee bur nee

Sentence: Shari's' tourneyburny made playing chess with her a real downer.

Etymology: tourney- from tournament, and -burny from burning with rage

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Created by: bingold

Pronunciation: fin-ster

Sentence: v- Why must you finster over every move?? n- Bruce is such a finster; he just takes all the fun out of the game.

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: skr ab qu obb le

Sentence: never get in to a game of scrabble with John, it will always end in a scrabquobble

Etymology: from quibble and scrabble and squabble.

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: gaym - bayn - grrr

Sentence: Freddy was behaving like a gamebanger while he angrily shouted out the clues in this round of password. He felt that Sherman had secretly slipped the secret word to Shirley during the lightening round and it had put his team behind.

Etymology: game, gangbanger, bang

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! - splendiction, 2009-10-15: 23:09:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: CHEE-te-de-BATE

Sentence: Harry was a renowned cheatedebater - having a fastidious nature there was no sign of a nittygritimpairment.

Etymology: cheat (an action that often causes game players to pore over the rule book) + heated (high level of emotion) + debate (argue)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: loo doh krus

Sentence: People in the ping pong world were getting tired of his ludocrous behaviour as he screamed "You can not be serious!" everytime he missed the table.

Etymology: ludicrous ludo

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: bawl der dash

Sentence: It was always a Risk to invite Bawlthazar the Bawlderdash to our weekly Games Night. He liked to have a Monopoly on winning but did not use his Cranium. His thoughts were so Scrabbled and so Scattergoried that he did not have a Clue how to play most games. And yet he would bawl when he lost. We started having secret Games Nights. I know, it was a Trivial Pursuit of some fun, but if The Bawlderdash got wind of our plans, we would be Sorry. Somedays we wanted to sink his Yahtzee with our Battleship. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose...I guess that's just the Game of Life!

Etymology: Balderdash (a popular board game of trivia and bluffing, where players bluff meanings of obscure words to win points, Balderdash is also defined as trivial nonsense) & Bawl (cry loudly;shout loudly and without restraint;make a raucous noise)

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COMMENTS:

Balderdash is my favourite game! Great word and sentence. - splendiction, 2009-10-15: 23:06:00

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