Verboticisms

Created by: simplysimon

Pronunciation: Tell-ee-con-vol-shun-ism

Sentence: "Lucy, that Hollyoaks DVD you lent me gave me a teleconvulsionism!"

Etymology: From the verb 'to convulse', usually meaning an uncontrollable attack of some sort, for example, the imminent attack of vomitting that occurs after watching an entire season of 'The OC'.

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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: LittleLula

Pronunciation: dee-VEE-de-lir-ium

Sentence: Her dvdelirium was so intense after her marathon SATC session on Sunday, Wendy was forced to call in sick Monday to sleep it off.

Etymology: DVD / delirium

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COMMENTS:

Dvdelightful. - Nosila, 2009-10-20: 01:54:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: dee-vee-dee-presh-un

Sentence: My marathon session viewing an entire season of "The Sopranos" was justly rewarded with 3 loads of unwashed laundry, 2 meals worth of dirty dishes, a left butt-cheek that had fallen asleep, and a wicked case of deeveedepression.

Etymology: DVD, Depression

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doesn't get much badda, bing - galwaywegian, 2007-04-02: 05:16:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: view-trid

Sentence: Jen's mind turned viewtrid after a serious bout of influenza left her bedridden for a week. Meaning well, Jeff rented seasons 1-4 of "Desperate Housewives" and "America's Next Top Model" for her to watch as she recuperated. It was most apparent when she became suspicious of everyone in the office of telling lies, having secrets and using the wrong color lipstick.

Etymology: view: watch + putrid: morally corrupted, rotted

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: serialdamagagad

Sentence: The X-Files got me serialdamagagad, i needed 23 seasons of Simpsons, Futurama and Ren&Stimpy to get me back on track.

Etymology: serial + damaged + gaga.

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Created by: suzanne

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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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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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