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DEFINITION: Silly little words you say to yourself when you have nothing left, but just have to keep going...
Verboticisms
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Encouragebent
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: en-cur-age-bent
Sentence: Thanks to the encouragebent from his mentors, he decided to pursue his new-media art project full-time.
Etymology: bent courage
Jargonstraytion
Created by: queeny
Pronunciation: Jargon-stray-shone
Sentence: albsolute jaronstraytion ran through his mind at the job interview.
Etymology:
Gibberwish
Created by: deadpanwalking
Pronunciation: JIB-er-wish
Sentence: With sweat forming on his brow and his pants at half-mast, his implausible explaination eventually trailed off to Gibberwish.
Etymology: gibberish - wish
Umeranduhs
Created by: OldEnglish
Pronunciation: uh-mir-and-as
Sentence: Although the suspect hemmed and hawed his way into a confession, it was ruled invalid because he had not been read his Umeranduh rights.
Etymology: um + er + and + uh
Psychogize
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When depressed, psychogize your self talk to make it through the day.
Etymology:
Foodilitize
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: foo-dill-ih-tie-ze
Sentence: FOODILITIZE!!!!! yea!
Etymology: think of the food, think of the food!
Carrotisms
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Sometimes carrotisms were the only incentives to persevering
Etymology:
Peptidbits
Created by: peterm
Pronunciation: pep titbits
Sentence: listen to him mutter peptidbits to himself; he'll never win.
Etymology: pep talk tidbit
