Verboticisms

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: 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: 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: 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: leogd

Pronunciation: tawk on er

Sentence: he's a real talkoner

Etymology:

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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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COMMENTS:

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: noztril

Pronunciation: slaw ther

Sentence: the slothor continued even as his audience snored

Etymology: sloth author

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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: rosska

Pronunciation: per-new-sense

Sentence:

Etymology:

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