Verboticisms

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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: sit/blitsd

Sentence: After watching 14 hours of 'Friends' non-stop, he was suffering from all the telltale signs of sitblitz; brainblurts, Simpsonized sayings, a Fred Flintstoned look, Gomerpiles and most unusual and funny walks. No doubt he was totally sitblitzed.

Etymology: sit-com + sitting + blitzed

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COMMENTS:

I lift my hat to the referencing. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-02: 18:20:00

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: tel-e-bum-i-tis

Sentence: Jared and Jewel, so in love with Lost, and lost in love, were too embarrassed to tell others what they had done over the weekend: sat on the two-seater and watched the entire season's shows non-stop. To compensate, they turned off the television, called in sick to work and then lay prone on the floor, night and day, Monday to Wednesday, not getting up for any kind of relief, in hopes of recovering from their severe case of telebumitis.

Etymology: From television + bum, for lazy person or buttox

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: oh-vurr-dee-vee-DOHS

Sentence: The only cure for Alex's overdeeveedose of "Punky Brewster" was to take a long walk and fill out a volunteer application for a guilt-ridding charity.

Etymology: overdose + DVD. Word intentionally long to mimic length of viewing.

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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: Ahmad

Pronunciation: weri-sm.rishao

Sentence: I have watched this movie more than ten times , its has now become a wearisumreshow to me.

Etymology: wearisome means boring. reshow means to play or see again.

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: skit/so/scree/nee/ah

Sentence: Long after Eric had finished watching Star Trek, he could still hear Captain Kirk's voice in his head. His friends deduced he must be suffering from schizoscreenia.

Etymology: schizophrenia + screen

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COMMENTS:

or mind warp - galwaywegian, 2007-04-02: 05:16:00

He could barely Klingon to reality - petaj, 2007-04-02: 05:36:00

He keeps phasering in and out... - Alchemist, 2007-04-02: 08:07:00

His brain was kirkling along with the warm phaser fire while he drank a spock of tea... - catgrin, 2007-04-02: 12:50:00

Scotty! Scene me up... - wordmeister, 2007-04-02: 13:56:00

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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: 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: porsche

Pronunciation: fred/flin/stoned

Sentence: They felt totally bedrocked and fredflinstoned after a weekend marathon with Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty

Etymology: Fred Flintsotne + stoned

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COMMENTS:

Cute! I'd use this word to describe my boyfriend driving his truck with the hole in the floor. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-02: 19:16:00

You can tell those who are Fredflintstoned by the nonchalance when their rocks miss all the pins. Yabba-dabba-doobie! - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-03: 05:53:00

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