Verboticisms

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: 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: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I have no time to discuss with such a slowworder

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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: 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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Created by: joelb

Pronunciation: WIND-lag

Sentence: By now I knew the directions, but the windlag wouldn't stop telling me where to find the on-ramp.

Etymology: wingbag + lag

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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: skepsis

Pronunciation:

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

Etymology: space and talker

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: jesster

Pronunciation: DUL - ser - tation

Sentence: Arnie's dullsertation on the chemical compounds used to make modern deodorant was more lethal than his body odor.

Etymology: dull + dissertation

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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: rosska

Pronunciation: per-new-sense

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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: jpmikkers

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

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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: noztril

Pronunciation: slaw ther

Sentence: the slothor continued even as his audience snored

Etymology: sloth author

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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: 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: leogd

Pronunciation: tawk on er

Sentence: he's a real talkoner

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