Verboticisms

Created by: icktoofay

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: scrab-bel-skwab-bel

Sentence: Family game night turned ugly when Ted began a Scrabblesquabble about the word "verbotomy." When his sister protested, Dad looked it up in Webster's; however, it wasn't there. Ted insisted that he saw the word online somewhere. Nettie wasn't sure if being online qualified it as a real word or just something made up. Ted held his ground and insisted that because he saw it online, it must be a real word because they wouldn't put things that aren't real online. Mom suggested that perhaps Ted was confusing two words and somehow mashing them together. As Ted's belligerence grew louder, Nettie stormed off and pouted, Mom retreated to the kitchen and little Rosie began to cry and throw blocks at the dog from her playpen. Dad had enough. He finally shut the whole thing down and sent everyone to bed. The next week they tried something a little less controversial like Trivial Pursuit.

Etymology: Scrabble: word building board game where questionable words can be challenged by an opponent and settled by proving the validity of the word using a dictionary + squabble: a noisy quarrel, usually over a trivial matter

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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: LittleLula

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Good word, Lula...just fleshj in with a pronunciation;sentence & etymology, plus 2 votes to expand your score!Cheers! - Nosila, 2009-10-16: 21:51:00

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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: splendiction

Pronunciation: scrab BUE pu LOUS

Sentence: His intensely fussy way of playing scrabble earned him the name: Mr. Scrabbupulous. It was he the scrabbupulous player who used rules when they were only in his favour to win. One day, determined to change the state of play, they beat him at his game with petty plays and constant whining, louder than Mr. Scrabbupulous’! (Memorizing the dictionary did help them). Scrabbupulous, a bad loser, declared, “There’s something wrong with my game!”

Etymology: Scrabble, scrupulous, tumultuous.

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He turned into Mr.Scabbupulous! - Nosila, 2009-10-16: 01:40:00

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

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ver bot oh sighed

Sentence: Her snide remarks and superior attitude caused him to commit verbotocide by literally making her eat her words

Etymology: verbotomy, genocide

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Words can kill... - Nosila, 2012-07-26: 22:42:00

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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: AJrunsonrice

Pronunciation: whore-moan-op-poll-eyes

Sentence: John has played Monopoly ever since he was a kid. It is his favorite game. Last Sunday, he played with his new friends, but began hormonopolizing due to his friends' ignorance of the standard rules.

Etymology: hormone-(a substance, especially in women that are pregnant, that drastically affects a person's emotional state)+ Monopoly (a board game that requires the player to buy out all of his/her competition in order to be victorious)

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