Verboticisms

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: 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: 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: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: con-ver-SUCK-shun-al-ist

Sentence: Tom's conversuctional skills were wasted on Mary who would have preverred he used them on her insomniac boyfriend Fred.

Etymology: conversation and suck - a conversuction is a time-wasting endeavor. Those who excel in wasting the time are conversuctionalists.

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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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Created by: Neej13

Pronunciation: Mo-not-a-log

Sentence: The politician was a true monotologue, the perfect one to fillibuster the bill.

Etymology: monotony + monologue

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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: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: tung-sloth

Sentence: Bore was too mild a word for Bob, a drawlsmith, whose glacilalian explications sounded like a dentist's drill - slow and painful. This snailjaw and tonguesloth never put off until tomorrow the tedium he could slackadaisically spread today.

Etymology: Sloth (physically and mentally inactive)& tongue (a speech organ, speech)

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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: apathy42

Pronunciation: ass-PER-sah-vocks

Sentence: It was strange; although in every other way Paul was manic, when talking he definitely had the tendency to be an aspersavox.

Etymology: aspersa - the species name for garden snail, vox - latin for voice

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