Verboticisms

Created by: eddie

Pronunciation: bor/a/toan

Sentence: Steve "The Slug" Jones speaks in such a boreatone manner that he has been known to talk people to sleep.

Etymology: boredom + monotone

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Created by: aj3131

Pronunciation: Talk-u-mentary

Sentence: Everybody want the dude to stop giving us a talkumentary about how he scraped the pimples off his back.

Etymology: talk + (doc)umentary

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COMMENTS:

i really like it but it seems to be more the things the person is saying instead of the actual person...? its good otherwise - ekath, 2007-03-06: 22:16:00

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Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: sne nik

Sentence: He takes too much time in conveying a single idea , he is a real snainic.

Etymology: snail: an animal which moves very slowly. sonic: sound waves , relating to sound

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: sill a brawd enn ing

Sentence: his syllabroadining was so pronounced, it took him two minutes to say"two minutes"

Etymology: syllable, broaden

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Tree-cull-spee-curr

Sentence: The lecturer's voice was like honey: smooth, sweet, and thick. By the end of the hour the treaclespeaker had lulled half the class to sleep.

Etymology: Treacle + speak. Treacle is sort of a sugary substance that doesn't flow very well (viscous).

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COMMENTS:

I'm going to use this word - very clever Discoveria - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:31:00

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Created by: Shellbow

Pronunciation: mo-LASS-tur

Sentence: He was such an extreme molasster it took him five minutes to ask for the ketchup.

Etymology: Molass- from molasses, a notoriously slow-pouring substance, especially when cold.

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COMMENTS:

I know it sounds dangerously close to molester, but so be it. - Shellbow, 2013-11-01: 23:26:00

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Created by: euclid

Pronunciation: forest+gump+ism

Sentence: come on with your bullshit.

Etymology: forrest gump=a long ass explination of a number of years that could have been described in a sentence like:"a mentally challenged man grew up in a society whose government chose to go to war."

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: lyk/ah/droe/n

Sentence: A likeahdrone is an individual who intersperses like ah between every word

Etymology: like ah + drone (to go on and on and on)

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COMMENTS:

I've like ah come like ah across some of like those - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:35:00

You must be Canadian like ah, EH? - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:57:00

Although we are aussies are guilty of putting ays on the end of sentences, the kiwis do this something chronic. Would that be the antipodean version of ah? - petaj, 2007-03-02: 19:59:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ee/nun/see/lay/tur

Sentence: Dave spent so much time worrying about pronunciation while conversing that he became know as an enuncilater.

Etymology: enunciator + later

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: layg - wij

Sentence: Tessa spoke her own laguage. By the time she finished a sentence, everyone knew what she was trying to say and had long since ceased to listen.

Etymology: lag, language

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COMMENTS:

Great word! - Nosila, 2009-09-22: 10:57:00

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