Verboticisms

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: der-mah-BLITE-iss

Sentence: What Marjorie inended to be an enhanced appearance thru extra sun lamp treatments turned instead, into a major case of dermablighits with large patches of facial skin either peeling or taking on odd shades of various colors.

Etymology: Blend of 'derma' (n. layer of skin) and 'blight' (n. a deteriorated condition) play on the word 'dermatitis' (n. Inflammation of the skin, usually itchy, with redness, swelling, and blistering)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: der mok ra see

Sentence: Chris sunbathed too hard and always ended up burning and shedding away her skin. She felt this dermockracy made her appear more youthful by having the sun exfoliate for her. Instead she was becoming melabnormal.

Etymology: Derma (skin) & Mock (fool, copy, imitate) and WordPlay on Democracy (the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group)

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Created by: AcesOfHearts

Pronunciation: Ten-u-an-um

Sentence: She began to tenuanim her skin as she came back in from the hot sun from the beach outside.

Etymology: Tenu-Stretch Anim-Life

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Created by: muchiny

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Upon a long walk through the beach, she started feeling the phengodermabrasion all over the exposed skin.

Etymology: Phengo- from Greek for light, sunlight, daylight, splendor, luster derma- from Greek for skin abrasion- superficial damage to skin

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COMMENTS:

phengonomenal! - Nosila, 2010-01-25: 15:15:00

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Created by: hellohime

Pronunciation: Goldmembering - Goldmemb'ring

Sentence: From all the shedded skin on the floor, I could tell that, my girlfriend had been goldmembering for most of the night.

Etymology: Goldmembering - From the movie Goldmember where the character played as portrayed Mike Myers, had a predilection for peeling his own skin, saving it in a box and possibly eating it.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: re/gen/er/dy/sis

Sentence: To maintain a youthful look in the 21st century, my anti-aging consultant and health specialist, recommends regenerdysis twice a year.

Etymology: regenerate + ecdysis (The shedding of an outer integument or layer of skin)

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: v: ex-FOOL-ishd n: ex-FOOL-ee-shed

Sentence: v.: Terri exfoolished with a cucumber herb peel that left her smelling like a salad dressing. n: Rodney's exfoolished from his sunburn was neatly stacked in piles sorted by size because of his rampant OCD.

Etymology: Exfoliate (to remove a layer of dead skin) + foolish + Shed

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Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: m-br-elle

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Etymology: embaressment - pell

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sləfəl

Sentence: If beauty is skin deep, Liz is up to her eyeballs in gorgeous. As she sluffles along through life, she does her best to make to a good first impression but often leaves a bigger impression when she departs. Unfortunately when she gets nervous, she sheds skin much faster than normal. She would have landed the job as the spokeslizard for Geico if she hadn*t shed 3 layers and interviewed looking pink.

Etymology: sluff (slough): shed + shuffle: walk by dragging one*s feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground

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Created by: phonematode

Pronunciation: mohl-ti-play-cay-shun

Sentence: She attempted to mollify her inner youth worshipper by addressing her times table through moltiplacation.

Etymology: molt (to shed) + placate (to calm, appease), + sounds like multiplication; n. moltiplaques = the flakey bits, from plaque (a flat plate, slab, disk, or patch)

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COMMENTS:

Be careful when you look for the good of days of your youth through moltiplication, cos you might just find algebra! Love the word and enjoyed the bizarreness of the sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-17: 20:25:00

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