Verboticisms

Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: ver BUSE'

Sentence: I like playing games with my brother, except when he ends up getting upset over my interpretation of the rules and subjects me to the most terrible verbuse. I say he's too rigid, then he says the way I'm doing it is "incorrect" and "inaccurate." And don't ever say to him, "Who cares about these little details; it's JUST A GAME," because that's when he begins sputtering and spouting some REALLY verbusive language. Last time, it was, "Oh, I forgot, you're the 'good-looking' brother [he still hasn't forgotten THAT remark from Aunt Sophie, 35 years later], but that's okay, because I'm the SMART one!"

Etymology: verbose + verbal abuse

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COMMENTS:

Very apt word...good one! - Nosila, 2009-10-15: 18:20:00

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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: Nosila

Pronunciation: skrab plur

Sentence: Marvin played Scrabble every Saturday night with his friends. He tried to cheat, made up words and got passionately argumentative when his friends challenged him. The official Scrabble dictionary was always consulted, but Marvin insisted that they did not have all the words in it yet, as the language was constantly evolving. He was a scrabpler for sure, but his friends suspected his verbal diarrhea and intellectual constipation were more due to his IVS... Irritable Vowel Syndrome!

Etymology: Scrabble (a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game) & Scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting)

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: play + cot + ick

Sentence: He got all playchotic over whether red moved first, or black, so I just let him win at checkers.

Etymology: psychotic + play

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Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: quig-li-fy

Sentence: I hardly ever play Scrabble without quiglifying every little letter.

Etymology: "Quibble" + "niggle" + "-ify" for aesthetic concerns.

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Created by: azazn

Pronunciation: khan-tris-tear-ick-uhl-vouls-ee

Sentence: Mark and Bob, I am sick of this Contrystericalvowelsy!! I quit.

Etymology: Contr: from Controversy. ysterical: from hysterical. vowelsy: from vowel. sy to add a nice zing.

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: con-test-ee

Sentence: Jez was a REALLY competitive player. If he sensed his opponent wasn't paying sufficient attention he would get all contesty and yell, "This is NOT just a GAME!"

Etymology: contest (a formal game in which two or more players compete and attempt to win) + testy (irritably impatient, touchy)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: mono/pole/em/ix

Sentence: Boardgames were just an excuse for us to engage in monopolemics

Etymology: monopoly (popular board game) + polemics (art or practice of controversy)

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COMMENTS:

Polemics eh? You learn something new every day! That said, this tiny mind reckons it sounds more like fighting over money or control of an entire market area. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-28: 18:04:00

Hey, that's perfect! - jedijawa, 2007-03-29: 07:09:00

I think it actually refers to theological controversy but money/markets certainly a religion - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-29: 08:46:00

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Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: you-cant-trum

Sentence: It is impossible to own all four railroads in Monopoly without someone throwing a youcantrum.

Etymology: "You can't (do that)!" + tantrum

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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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