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DEFINITION: v. To get what you wished for, but not exactly what you wanted. n. A wish come true that's a total let down.
Verboticisms
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Obliteraled
Created by: jboehnker
Pronunciation: uh blit' er eld
Sentence: Bob's hopes were obliteraled the moment he saw the twelve-inch pianist appear; the genie had obviously misheard his wish.
Etymology: obliterated + literal
Iwanic
Created by: Fleury
Pronunciation: eye-WAH-nik
Sentence: It was pretty iwanic -- he did, after all, tell the blackjack dealer "hit me!"
Etymology: sloppy conflation of "ironic" and "I want it"
Desirefluous
Created by: thedreness
Pronunciation: Dee-zigh-err-flu-us
Sentence: To gaze into her yearning eyes longingly was sufficient. To have her boyfriend come from their table to mine to ask me if I had a problem was desirefluous...
Etymology: Desire + Superfluous
Foolfilment
Created by: sisternyx
Pronunciation: fool-fil-ment
Sentence: Jim wished for a vacation but his foolfillment was that he was fired Friday.
Etymology: fully fooled
Dohdream
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Dough-Dream
Sentence: D'ohdream!, not again, I must be due one small dream to come true:(
Etymology: Remming together of 1)D'oh, exclamation of fury, discontent and general indignance made famous by Homer of the Simpsons 2)dayDream Chief activity of Walter Mitty and his decendents (mankind..not womankind mind)
Fantaseek
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: fan tass eeek
Sentence: The fantasy became a fantaseek when he tried to undo the bobbles on her bikini bottoms and found that they weren't bobbles
Etymology: fantasy, eek
Diswishillia
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: dis-wish-illia
Sentence: Carl was plagued with his curse of diswishillia, a disease you would not want to wish on your wordt enemy
Etymology: dis: away, wish + illia: disease
Wishwarranty
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: wish/war/an/tee
Sentence: Regretfully, his "wishwarranty" did not cover this unexpected exigency.
Etymology: It's a pity that a "wish", like unrequited love, does not come with a no questions asked money-back guarantee.
Ok
Created by: bernard
Pronunciation: am always me
Sentence: more of me is real so i cant fail
Etymology: am who you would like to see
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COMMENTS:
here is superb - bernard, 2012-05-04: 12:51:00
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Comments:
ATTENTION ALL PLAYERS: Round One is ending today and we will be declaring the first official Verbotomy winner!
We will start Round Two on Monday with fresh scores -- i.e. everyone starts with zero!
So please cast your final votes for this round's verboticisms today. Good luck!
wordmeister - 2006-11-24: 11:16:00
Good word chris. I have been giftmiffed a few times. Hey, does anyone know what the official title will be for the game winner? They should be able to come up with a good title. How about adding "VbD" to the playername since the winner should be awarded a "Doctorate in Verbotomy".
- 2006-11-24: 11:40:00
The winner (mother?) will be drunk with the power, so how about "Verbloto"?
- 2006-11-24: 11:48:00
Mother drunk?? Never!!! (heavy sarcasm)
- 2006-11-24: 11:50:00
the two styles of drawings seem blended now - very cool
Thanks!
deadpanwalking - 2006-12-05: 11:09:00
My vote's for Mother. Consistently clever. Having said that ... watch your back in round 2!