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DEFINITION: n. An unpleasant smell caused by the lack of fresh air, and/or stuffy thinking, especially if one has been locked up in a building for a long, long time. v. tr. To exude stale air or ideas.
Verboticisms
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Stagnicogitate
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: stag + ni + codge + i +tate
Sentence: The business was going down, because the planning committee was comprised of stagnicogitaters. Not one innovator. With all that funking going on in their minds, they couldn't smell the corruption emanating from the finance section.
Etymology: stagnate (become stale or fouled) + cogitate (think hard)
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COMMENTS:
"Funking" is a great word! Stagnicogitate is a great big word! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 11:02:00
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Moldivation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mole div ay shun
Sentence: After many years in a job where he worked from home, the air quality in his surroundings was suffering from moldivation. When he retired, George told Laura that he hoped to make millions as a moldivational speaker. He knew his witty banter and intellectual view of the world, along with his open-minded tolerance of diverse cultures, shrewd economics, eco-minded spirit and peace-loving nature would make him a media darling and maybe, just maybe, he might end up on Celebrity Jeopardy or Dancing With The Stars. A boy can dream, can't he?
Etymology: mold (the process of becoming mildewed, rotted)& motivation (the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal)
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COMMENTS:
George is such a character he better be careful he doesn't wind up elected into office for his moldivational thinking! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 10:39:00
Amusing and clever as ever. Good fun one! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 10:40:00
Cheers, silveraspen...you are always kind and encouraging! - Nosila, 2008-02-29: 20:56:00
I reaally like it! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-02: 20:00:00
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Stenchtorious
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: stench/tory/us
Sentence: Conrad had a stenchtorious air about him which was poisonous to all around him. Some thought him merely a gasbag while others thought of him as a secret weapon.
Etymology: stench + stentorious
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COMMENTS:
Witty sentence! I can hear it loud and clear and smell it clear from here! Strong word! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 10:43:00
Nice -perhaps, not so nice blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-02: 19:59:00
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Cryptacogitation
Created by: CanadianAndyCapp
Pronunciation: Kript-a-kodj-i-tay-shun
Sentence: The newly graduated office designer, far from creating an environment conducive to creativity, produced a prime example of Cryptacogitation. Dead air, Dead Thought.
Etymology: Crypt- the dead centre of town./ Cogitation- Fancy thought
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COMMENTS:
Interesting choice of words and definitions in your etymology, that made for a most apt creation, right on the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 11:43:00
Interesting choice of words and definitions in your etymology, that made for a most apt creation, right on the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 11:46:00
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Rancidosis
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ran - sid - OSE - iss
Sentence: Entering the long abandoned library in the vacant house he was appraising, Hector thought to himself that the room had a bad case of rancidosis.....a disgusting fragrance that he thought was likely similar to a bear's breath at the end of a long hibernation.
Etymology: Blend of rancid and halitosis
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COMMENTS:
Innovative powerful sentence simile! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 10:56:00
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Penimentiary
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Pen-i-MEN-shuh-ree
Sentence: Even though Bob read volumes of "escapist" literature when he was in gaol, a year after regaining his freedom, he still was waiting for others to re-open the "doors of his mind" for him. His psychiatrist said that it would be a very long time before his penimentiary could be cured.
Etymology: PENIMENTIARY: " The prison of the mind" Blend of Penitentiary: prison & Ment:(L): the mind.
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COMMENTS:
nice twist - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-29: 09:02:00
"reopen the doors of hi mind" is such a wonderful way to convey that concept! Ditto for the 'prison of the mind" concept of your creation! Exceptional sentence! Exception verbote! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 11:07:00
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Farticulate
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /fahrt-tik-yuh-leyt/
Sentence: Since his retirement, on most days, Walter would just sit on the porch in his rocking chair, smoke cigars and farticulate, saying things like, "Maybe only half of them A-rabs are terrorists, but so what? Just bomb the whole lot of 'em, is what I says, and let God sort 'em out." He was obviously suffering from farteriosclerosis.
Etymology: Fart - v. to break wind; n. the odorous result of breaking wind; [as in "Old Fart"] (from Middle English, ferten, of imitative origin) + Articulate - to voice or clearly describe ideas (from Latin, articulāre "divide into distinct parts")
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COMMENTS:
what a gas! - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-29: 09:01:00
I'm lovin' "farteriosclerosis"! - Jamagra, 2008-02-29: 10:10:00
Wonderfully witty! Double kudos for two vebotomated creations! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 10:47:00
Outstanding - Banky, 2008-02-29: 14:19:00
Great words; funny sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-02: 19:57:00
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Conseptic
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: cawn-sehp-tick
Sentence: The conseptic ideas of the FOX reality TV executives had led to an entire schedule of gems such as "Guyotine!" in which polygraph-caught cheating husbands were castrated on live television with a large blade. "Badger Tank", a game show in which the losing contestants were dropped into the titular tank, combined America's love of animals and seeing people who are not them in pain. "America's Next Top Adult Movie Theater Janitor" was full of scatological guffaws, and would surely perform well after "Fore!igner" where non-white non-Christians were buried up to their waist on a driving range and pelted by PGA professionals. The new show "Whatev" featuring a guest lecturer every week preaching to disaffected teens who are ranked by a national audience on their levels of apathy, antipathy, and ability to distract themselves from the orator and their message would grab the coveted 18-25 demographic on Wednesdays. Finally, the culmination of six years of experience in the business, "Jim Carrey Presents" which features the wacky hacktor making the most outrageous faces at the camera between segments of punching random people in the groin and then passing gas onto their crumpled forms.
Etymology: concept + septic
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COMMENTS:
Admire your thoughts and sentence and verbot muchly! Where do they find the people they put on reality tv shows? Terrific word for a great many of strange people on the weird reality tv shows! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 13:55:00
Another good word & sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-02: 19:56:00
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Bushstink
Created by: cateswell
Pronunciation: bush-stink
Sentence: That Simon overthere from HR. He wants to change things for his own selfish reasons. I been stuck in the office with him for an hour now and can hardly breath because of his bushstink.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Adds new meaning to office politics. Your sentence and verbote display great bravado! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 14:05:00
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Jargonmonoxide
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: (jar/gon/mon/ok'/sid)
Sentence: By the time the jargon monoxide detectors interrupted the CEO's annual report, Nancy, a "think outside the box" kind of employee, had already crawled to the conference room exit.
Etymology: jargon monoxide (n.) from "jargon" (vocabulary peculiar to a particular trade or group) + "carbon monoxide" (a poisonous gas); opp. - jargon monoxidize (to infuse with oxygen)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant - galwaywegian, 2008-02-29: 10:27:00
Wow! Escape from deadly words ... is something we'd all love to do! Great choice of words. Meaning is immediately apparent! Exceptionally excellent creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-29: 10:59:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-29: 11:57:00
Supoib! - Banky, 2008-02-29: 14:20:00
Good one, Jamagra...it's like politcolution. We're ruining the planet with it! The Greenhouse Effect from all the hot air rising daily in boardrooms! - Nosila, 2008-02-29: 20:56:00
Ding-ding-ding! We have a winnah! - ErWenn, 2008-02-29: 22:31:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by an anonymous donor. Thank you! ~ James