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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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Dayscreaming
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dāskrēming
Sentence: His mother always told him, \"be careful what you wish for\" and now he knew why. Ever since he had taken up boxing to get in shape Sidney would daydream about being good enough to go pro. Now, sitting in the ring across from the champ, his daydreaming had turned into dayscreaming. It was a full-fledged daymare. Sure, it was just a charity exhibition match but the look in the champ\'s eyes when Sidney teased him about his pink trunks left him hoping that his teeth were well anchored.
Etymology: daydreaming (a series of pleasant thoughts that distract one\'s attention from the present) + screaming (give a long, loud, piercing cry or cries expressing excitement, great emotion, or pain)
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COMMENTS:
- good word! - splendiction, 2009-07-28: 20:26:00
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Disalopine
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: dis-a-lope-pine
Sentence: When he asked for a car, he was disalopined when he got an old clunker.
Etymology: Latin
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"
Boomafy
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation:
Sentence: One beer left, but it was flat! Boomafied again!
Etymology: Boom from Boomarang to turn upon oneself, and fy, from gratify to gratify...
Snarecastle
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: SNARE cass el
Sentence: I got caught in another snarecastle in the grocery store when I saw a beautiful woman looking at me and then after I smiled at her, realized she thought I worked in the store.
Etymology: SNARE: trap AIRCASTLE" head in the clouds, dreams, fantasies
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
Incogric
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "in-cog-rick"
Sentence: isn't it incogrick?
Etymology:
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!