Verboticisms

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: fayt-al-i-ty

Sentence: Sitting at his desk, Joe contemplated his fateality when he realized that he wasn't still dreaming and he really didn't have his pants on.

Etymology: reality: quality and state of things being true + fate: supposed force or princible that predetermines events + fatality: a decree made by fate or the quality of being doomed by disaster

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COMMENTS:

There's sale down the street he should go to where pants are half off! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 17:36:00

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Created by: catgrin

Pronunciation: spoo-feyt

Sentence: A sense of spoofate overcame Angela as the toothpaste plopped onto her new silk shirt. She had to laugh - bitterly.

Etymology: combination of root words spoof +fate

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ran dum

Sentence: these randumb events were beginning to sow seeds of doubt about her ever having her own broadcasting corporation by the age of thirty

Etymology: random, dumb

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COMMENTS:

clever! - wordmeister, 2007-03-08: 08:23:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: suk/shun

Sentence: Sucktion is the feeling I get when I log in and see so many clever words already submitted

Etymology: suck + suction

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COMMENTS:

hear ya - porsche, 2007-03-08: 12:04:00

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Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: stink-uhn-dip-i-tuhs

Sentence: The toast incident was just another in a never ending chain of stinkendipitous occurences.

Etymology: stink + serendipitous

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: fail tall ism

Sentence: Mary was hit by a feeling of failtalism when she realized that yet again she was not going to be Cinderella at the ball.

Etymology: from fail and faitalism

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kar mar jar een

Sentence: Destiny just knew when her perfect new husband's ex showed up at their wedding reception, it was not only as a guest, but as a date for him. Once again, Destiny's karmargarine was at work. Buttered toast side down on a dirty carpet...the fuzzy end of the lollipop...what's a four letter word starting with an "F"...oh yeah, FATE!

Etymology: Karma (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation)& Margarine (a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: fait - ah - list - tik

Sentence: Gloria discovered that just by changing one letter in the word fatalistic, she had a new word for the feeling she was having... Every little thing seemed to go wrong for her and because of these little events which kept adding up, she began to feel fatealistic.

Etymology: fate, fatalistic

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COMMENTS:

Fateall attraction! - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 17:33:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: serr-en-DEWP-eh-tee

Sentence: Thinking that things were actually going her way for a change, Daisy was once again struck with a bout of serendupity when karma visited her, and a sure bet turned into a total disaster.

Etymology: Blend of 'serendipity' (n. the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident) and 'dupe' (v. to make a dupe of)

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Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: ri'po'lin'der

Sentence: I was completely repolindered at the sight of the mess, causing a dramatic outbreak

Etymology: repo as in reposession of sanity + 'inder as in reminder

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