Verboticisms

Created by: jpmikkers

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thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00

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Created by: leogd

Pronunciation: tawk on er

Sentence: he's a real talkoner

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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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber

Sentence: Frank was a classic dallygabber who three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds.

Etymology: dally + gab + gabber

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: blah + say

Sentence: Oh good lord, that guy can blahsay his way through 10 minutes of explaining why X-wing fighters are inferior to Y-wings even though they're both made up things in a movie..

Etymology: It's supposed to be like "blase" only I can't do that little accent thingie over the e. But that's the etymology, anyway.

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If you're on a PC, make sure your keypad is set for numerical. Hold down your ALT key, and at the same time, enter 0233 on the keypad. If you're on Mac, I don't know what to tell you. - mplsbohemian, 2007-08-27: 15:15:00

I'm on a laptop with no keypad. :( - Osomatic, 2007-08-27: 17:23:00

Or you could copy and paste from a web page, or from a word processing application (insert symbol) - petaj, 2007-08-27: 23:08:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: slow-lill-a-kwist

Sentence: Alas, poor Rick, was such a slowliloquist that he would never again tread the boards as Hamlet. He was still to-being or not-to-being when the last members of the audience reached home.

Etymology: slow + soliloquist

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Created by: skepsis

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Sentence: Jimmy, a major spalker, seems to have trouble stringing sentences together.

Etymology: space and talker

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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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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: stew pour 8 or

Sentence: He was a consumate stuporator, having killed three innocent tourists while giving them directions to the bus depot. in the case of two of them, their heartbeats got slower and slower over the course of two hours until they eventually arrested. Being Japanese, they were too polite to walk away. The third one just lost the will to live, and impaled himself on his umbrella.

Etymology: stupor, orator

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