Verboticisms

Created by: arms55

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: epic/dem/ic

Sentence: She was stricken by the deadly epicdemic that compelled her to constantly think of herself as the only real person on the planet - everyone else was a fictional prop to her story

Etymology: epic + epidemic

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COMMENTS:

I thought I was the only real person. Maybe she's from a different planet... - wordmeister, 2007-04-11: 07:48:00

haven't you ever wondered why skin sometimes feels like paper - yikes!! -been reading too much Jasper Fforde - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-11: 09:01:00

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Created by: davedave

Pronunciation: /kəˈmyunnæreɪt/

Sentence: My sister communarrated all night about how she wanted to change her hair part.

Etymology: communicate < Latin 'commūnicātus' (past part. of commūnicāre) to impart, make common + narrate < Latin 'narrātus' (past part. of narrāre) to relate, tell, say

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COMMENTS:

talk about splitting hairs! - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 05:59:00

I like COMMUNARATE. I think a successful word should be pronounceable on the first go... cleverness must be secondary. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:23:00

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Created by: stache

Pronunciation: nan'ə-rāt'

Sentence: Hearing Joyce nanarrate the removal of her toe jam, ear wax and naval lint for 45 minutes left Todd with a numb cell-phone ear and an urge to smack someone.

Etymology: nano, prefix for billionth, used to describe technology on the microscopic, even molecular, level; narrate, to tell or relate.

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COMMENTS:

Clever bend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-18: 06:46:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: twit-er-twit

Sentence: Marsha loves Twitter. She will tell her followers about every detail of her life. Yesterday she proved how much of a twittertwit she is when she tweeted "I'm tweeting right now".

Etymology: twitter (Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service) + twit (an insignificant, silly, or bothersome person)

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: trayht-ig-zist-OI-uh

Sentence: Bob's tritexistoia was so ridiculously out of control that he spent the greater part of his waking hours telling,in the most minutissimic details, anyone who would listen to him of his plans to produce computerised models of the 555 sewing needles in his collection.

Etymology: TRITE. adj:lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale; banal; commonplace ideas. I.T: initialism for Informational Technology. EXIST: vb.:to have an existence, be extant; be alive, -nOIA suffix. In mild form "-oia" may consist in the "strange behaviour" exhibited in persons commonly called "cranks."

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COMMENTS:

sounds like a legitimate ailment - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-17: 13:58:00

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: TEK-no-blab

Sentence: The woman in front of me at the curry stand was so busy technoblabbing about buying curry that I finally had to tell her to hang up and pay the man. "Some guy just told me to hang up and pay", she continued, oblivious.

Etymology: techno (logy) + blab (run off at the mouth)

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: CYber+BORE

Sentence: Sometimes I wish we did not have all these high-tech connections, especially when she cybores me with some inane blow-by-blow in unbearable high-def detail.

Etymology: CYber+BORE

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COMMENTS:

I like it...simple and concise! - Nosila, 2008-06-17: 22:47:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /dij-uh-rah-TEE-dee-um/

Sentence: Ken and Julie would blog about everything — detailing all of the digeratedium of their lives that nobody else really cares about. When they got engaged, they started a website, and wrote about all the minutiae of their wedding planning. Then they started a new blog when they got a cat, and posted pictures and stories about what it did that day, and what it might be saying if it could talk. Now they have a baby. Reading the daily pregnancy updates were mind-numbing, but the pages of text they'd write each time baby Ryan spit up or filled his diaper were enough to induce a coma.

Etymology: Digerati - people who often use, or are knowledgeable about, digital technologies (from dig[ital] + [lit]erati "computer literate") + Tedium - the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tedious (from Latin, tædium "weariness, disgust")

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COMMENTS:

digerati is a new one on me, and it works well with this. - stache, 2008-06-17: 06:21:00

To me too; nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:38:00

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Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: pan-teks-tyoo-al

Sentence: "Rachel doesn't keep anything a secret on her blog. She is completely pantextual."

Etymology: "pan" as in all; text

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