Verboticisms

Created by: plan9

Pronunciation: low+qway+ster

Sentence: A true loquaster, Bob never failed to use 1,000 words spoken slowly when 100 uttered quickly would do.

Etymology: loquacious + waster

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: tur-tell

Sentence: Bob was a true turtell. He was so slowquacious that by the time he yelled "Fire!", the garage was nothing but a pile of smoldering embers.

Etymology: turtle, tell

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Created by: Xatski

Pronunciation: Plod/en/dro/mic

Sentence: After he failed to pause for breath for the fourteenth time I reliezed his stories were rather plodindromic.

Etymology: Plod + Palindromic (Relapsing, recurring)

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Created by: leogd

Pronunciation: tawk on er

Sentence: he's a real talkoner

Etymology:

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: dawd-l-blath-er

Sentence: Sid's dawdleblathering crowned him "most likely to cure your insomnia" at the team building convention.

Etymology: dawdle (slow) + blather (blab)

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Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: ep-uh-plod

Sentence: Ken was a bigger epiplod than most politicians.

Etymology: epilogue - (a concluding speech) and plod - (trudge, slow)

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: loh-KWAYT-shuhs

Sentence: Alex fell asleep during the loqwaitcious ramblings of his date's explaining how she had finally come to the decision to go out with him.

Etymology: loquacious (talkative) + wait

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Created by: noztril

Pronunciation: slaw ther

Sentence: the slothor continued even as his audience snored

Etymology: sloth author

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Created by: DrHarvey

Pronunciation: Ver-tard-i-us

Sentence: The intern stood there, pencil on paper, waiting for the daily plan from his vertardious consultant who meandered on about the importance of vigilant fluid management.

Etymology: 'Ver' - of the verbal form. 'Tardus' - Slow, latin.

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Created by: logorrhoea

Pronunciation: yawn-yak-er

Sentence: Bill is such a yawnyacker - people have been known to commit suicide rather than wait for him to stop talking.

Etymology: yawn + yack (persistent annoying chatter)

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