Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: frakt

Sentence: Everything she said was true. She would break down all she knew and serve up just those bits that favored her interests. ”I’m not lying”, she would say and that’s a fract.

Etymology: fracture (the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material) + fact (a thing that is indisputably the case)

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: mʌɪ:niː:s:yeah

Sentence: Honestly, it was almost down to mykneesyeah.

Etymology: Slamming together of 1-) My : A possessive pronoun belonging to the first person. 2-) Knees : A bone which is connected to the ankle. 3 -) Yeah : Positive affirmation and verbal stuffing used to punctuate sentences, yeah. Pun on Amnesia - Can't remember what that means.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: kan vas sin

Sentence:

Etymology: canvassing sin

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: missss leee ding

Sentence: He was a serial missleader until the day he let his cover slip when confused by the wrestling Williams twins. He was in so much pain that he couldn't even hit on the ortopaedic surgeon's receptionist.

Etymology: miss, misleading

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COMMENTS:

ladies day again! lol - silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 08:32:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-20: 10:41:00

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Created by: Yerolin

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: sneek - speek

Sentence: Over the years, Lucy had perfected the art of sneakspeak. She learned to feed people bits and pieces of a story, leaving out things that she thought people would disapprove of just to they would not think badly of her....By the time they found out all the facts years later, it no longer had the negative impact she feared.

Etymology: Sneak + Sneak Peek + Speak >> Sneak (to go stealthily or furtively) + Sneak Peek (A preview, especially of something not yet public) Speak (use language, talk: express in speech)

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: de LETE ful

Sentence: The guy I am now dating is delightful, but the last guy was deleteful. He always "forgot" to tell me things. He didn't tell me he was dating other women. He said, "You didn't ask." He told me what he thought I should know in a nicely packaged facade, and deleted the rest.

Etymology: The opposite of delightful. DELETE: to remove something, or erase something DECEITFUL: dishonest

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COMMENTS:

Well crafted! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 08:29:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fakthōlz

Sentence: If you could see Tim's argument it would look like a slice of Swiss cheese. He is skilled in the use of flash and bluster to camouflage his factholes. When people find how they have been duped, they will sometimes refer to Tim as a certain variety of hole.

Etymology: fact (a thing that is indisputably the case) + holes (hollow places in a solid body or surface)

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COMMENTS:

Into the void! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 01:14:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kon tyse

Sentence: Lola confessed to her bff Wendy that her on-line date had been able to contice her by omitting every other line in his bio...

Etymology: Con (fool, trick) & Entice (lure;seduce;lead-on)

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Created by: leechdude

Pronunciation: omm-istake

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Etymology: ommissions mistake

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