Verboticisms

Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: E-go-dough-t

Sentence: For fear of his horrible stories,the youth of the family stayed away from their egodote, great-grandfather.

Etymology: Ego-self dote, from anecdote.

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Created by: Silent0

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: flaw jik

Sentence: When Vanessa asked her father for a new computer, he tried to diminish its value. His flawgic was not understanding that in today's Internet world, his daughter could easily draw her own conclusions, based on accurate data. His daughter was not a silicone chip off the old block!

Etymology: Flaw (add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective) & Logic (reasoned and reasonable judgment)

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: tan/jent/van/jel/ist

Sentence: My sixth grade teacher was a tangentvangelist who answered every question with a reference to the black plague

Etymology: tangent + evangelist

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Probably the best use of "evangelist" outside occult circles (or should that be pentagrams?). - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-18: 12:14:00

Good word. Also made me think of that SNL sketch, "In a vannn down by the rivvver". That guy was a tangentvangelist if anyone ever was. - playdohheart, 2007-04-18: 15:09:00

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Created by: greenheatherbutterfly

Pronunciation: just say it as you see it.

Sentence: He had such prehistoric values in life, he was such a prehistorer!!!

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ab-swerve-ist

Sentence: The repertory group had come to be known as the Theatre of the Abswerve. Since Eugene, a playwright, kept banging on about his past productions, they could not settle on a script.

Etymology: absurd, swerve

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: rem-i-nan-i-ty

Sentence: Her dad's constant reminanity drove her to the brink of insanity. She couldn't wait to graduate from school to get away from it. Then one day after she was grown and he was gone, she realized to her horror that she was beginning to do the same thing to her kids. "The bunk stops here!" she thought, and immediately stopped talking.

Etymology: reminisce: to recollect and tell of past experiences or events + inanity: something empty of meaning or sense; lack of intelligence or imagination

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: ass/in/time

Sentence: John knew he had officially become his father when he told the kids, "You think cleaning your room before you go to the mall is bad? Try getting up at 2, feeding chickens, milking cows, chopping wood, birthin' sheep AND making your own shoes out of the hide you laid out weeks before THEN walking 4 miles to school everyday! THEN come back and tell me again that your life sucks!" Yes, he has become an asintime just like his dad.

Etymology: as: derivative of ass:a pompous fool. "in time" (self explanatory)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: ill/us/tray/shun/jist

Sentence: Her dad was the ultimate illustrationgist - he reduced every conversation to taking a walk down memory lane

Etymology: illustration (example) + gist (meaning)

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Ooh, this is an interesting spin on the definition. - playdohheart, 2007-04-18: 07:37:00

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: MEN-tore-KLACKS-un-ITE

Sentence: Discourajerk Exampalook! Your theory can’t be right. I erred that way And have become a…. Mentorklaxonite.

Etymology: MENTOR: a trusted counselor or guide; Latin, from Greek Mentōr (1616).....KLAXON: trade name used for an electrically operated horn or extremely raucus, attention-getting warning signal, often disorienting.....-ITE: adherent, devotee, or one who espouses a particular philosophy; noun suffix from Latin -ita, -ites, from Greek -itēs

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http://vos.ucsb.edu/ - metrohumanx, 2009-11-04: 04:16:00

Ignore the comment above. http://onemansblog.com/2006/12/01/a-compendium-of-150-monty-python-sketches/ - metrohumanx, 2009-11-04: 06:44:00

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