Verboticisms

Created by: LMR1991

Pronunciation: High-lee-mind-ed

Sentence: You're so very highlyminded when it comes to your joking around.

Etymology: Seeing as how being obsessed with wits and cleverness, highly(as in queen, a person who is above all) and minded( state of being in thought), tahdah highlyminded.

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Nahr-siss-uh-kway-shuhs

Sentence: Gloria enjoyed the party immensely, mostly because it gave her the opportunity to trap people with her narcissiquacious stories about her very exciting life.

Etymology: Narcissist+Loquacious

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COMMENTS:

hey kyoti - welcome aboard - graet words this week - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 23:43:00

Great word, kyo! - amysmiles2000, 2007-07-07: 07:12:00

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Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: in-ap-ri-TEN-shuhn

Sentence: Many think that Gloria's inappretension reached its apogee when she kept referring to Carl Sagan as Bob Saget.

Etymology: inapprehension + pretension

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COMMENTS:

In a pretence too. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:49:00

I'll pretense I didn't hear that. - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 12:49:00

now that would be pretenshush - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 13:04:00

Guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, ya gotta help me. I keep thinking that I'm going to tell you, 'I'm a wigwam, I'm a teepee,' and then you're gonna say..." Shrink cuts him off with a heaving sigh and says, "I've got you on a 9:30 next Wednesday. You're pre tents." - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 18:40:00

I think that would be clutching at straw huts - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 23:37:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈlaʊd ˈʃoʊldɚ/

Sentence: I was trying to explain the trainee's new duties, but he gave me the loud shoulder, repeatedly making doody puns.

Etymology: As in "cold shoulder," only with "loud" instead of "cold"

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: pomp/bas/tic

Sentence: Peerless pretty petty pushy pathetic pompbastic Paul was perfectly proud of his pernicious pun.

Etymology: pompus + bombastic

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Pomp that bass. - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 07:31:00

Poignantly played at the Pompidou Centre. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:59:00

I would say that is a pompadour he's sporting in the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 10:59:00

Now that you mention it, it DOES look like Conan O'Brien with a bleach job. - Kyoti, 2007-07-06: 11:12:00

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Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: nar-sis-sillie

Sentence: ever since he got that 100 on his test, he's been prancing around acting all narcissilly

Etymology: narcissistic + silly

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COMMENTS:

not much thought put into this sorrie - loofarama, 2007-07-06: 12:07:00

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Created by: cassandra1315

Pronunciation: Full-o-your-self

Sentence: He was too fullaurself that everyone hated him.

Etymology:

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Created by: carolzinnov

Pronunciation: No-ears-maniac

Sentence: My manager is a braggart, and is proud of his witty one-liners that he does not listen to anyone else. He is such a noearsmaniac

Etymology: When a person is all ears, he/she is listening to you. No-ears-maniac is a person who is obsessed with his own ideas that he does not listen to what others have to say.

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Created by: ChristopherAndersen

Pronunciation: EE go LAY lee uh

Sentence: I couldn't get a word in over his egolalia.

Etymology: "ego" self and -lalia "speaking" (see glossolalia - speaking in tongues)

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Created by: fefefeha7

Pronunciation: Clock-on-me

Sentence:

Etymology:

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