Verboticisms

Created by: fantomex

Pronunciation: tee-vee-hee-vee

Sentence: After watching all of 'The Simpsons' season 3, I experienced teeveeheavey for the second time in my life.

Etymology: 'Teevee' comes from the obvious word 'TV', and 'heavey' comes from the word 'heave', meaning to retch or be sick.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ep-i-SOD-o-mee

Sentence: Buffy felt slayed and not a little lost. She also had a sore derriere from sitting on the sofa watching the entire season of Fawlty Towers without getting up. She had a bad case of episodomy.

Etymology: episode (a part of television series) + Sodom (a city well known for vice and corruption especially of a certain kind likely to cause psychological unpleasantness and/or a sore butt)

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Also reminds me of episiotomy -- another cause of sore butts. - petaj, 2007-04-02: 05:11:00

Excellent word. I take it Buffy won't be watching any Gomorrah for a little while. I know, lame... - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-02: 07:27:00

now I know why she feels so icky - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-02: 12:26:00

Nice word! - simplysimon, 2007-04-02: 13:15:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: gill - eh - gan - naw - see - ah

Sentence: Sherwood felt like he had been adrift on the minnow for too long himself. The gilliganausea set in after the 40th episode but Bob convinced him to watch all 98 in one weekend.

Etymology: Gilligan (Gilligan's Island), nausea

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COMMENTS:

great-now that song will be stuck in my head all day:) terrific word. - mrskellyscl, 2009-10-19: 08:17:00

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Created by: suzanne

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Created by: urbanwookie

Pronunciation: twen-ty-flor-d (c'mon how hard can it be?)

Sentence: With Keifer Sutherland's face now permanently seared into their retinas, both Jock and Imelda had to admit to being twentyfloored.

Etymology: 24 + floored

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Would you be twentyfloored by watching LOST? - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-02: 18:16:00

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: out-spÆZ-d

Sentence: After spazing out on the sofa for a day and a half, he was completely outspazed, and could barely zap to the news.

Etymology: to spaz out - to watch TV like a zombie. outspazed is the state when you can do that no more.

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Dunno why but that sounds "un-PC". To quote the great Ricky Gervais: "I think you'll find it's scope!" - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-02: 18:14:00

I must say, I have no idéa what you're talking about?!? - allwise, 2007-04-04: 05:55:00

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: tee vee queee see

Sentence: After a full day of x-files colin was more than tvqueasy, he was almost blind.

Etymology: from TV and queasy.

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Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: te-le-zom-bi-fi-cay-shun

Sentence: After inhaling three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in one weekend, Jeanette suffered from telezombification.

Etymology: television + zombification

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: maf eeya thon

Sentence: Tony & Carmela Johnson had scheduled their annual mafiathon long weekend starting on Friday and ending Monday night. They watched 86 hours of The Soprano series for hours each day. A few hours of sleep and back at it the next day. As usual, they ended up speaking in nasal Joisey accents and colorful words peppered their dialogue. They also caught Godfathers 1,2,3; Casino and Goodfellas, to break up their viewing. By the time they went back to work on Tuesday,each wanted to whack their bosses, eat more ziti and smoke cigars. They do this each year...just when they thought they were out, they get pulled back in! Try a Sound of Music weekend next year??? Fuhgeddaboutit!

Etymology: Mafia (a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia) & Marathon (any long and arduous undertaking)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: just vomit and say set afterwards

Sentence: The box set turned out to be a bleaughset

Etymology: box set bleaugh!

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