Verboticism: Availabhor
DEFINITION: v., To avoid unwanted interruptions (visits, calls, or emails) by pretending to be unavailable, unreachable or unconscious. n., A person who pretends they are not home in order to avoid talking to someone.
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Incryptshun
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: in/krept/shun
Sentence: To his neighbours, Boris was a strange character and difficult to decipher, especially when he went into his incryptshun mode, shutting out all around him and hiding for days in his basement.
Etymology: in + crypt + shun
Hermitate
Created by: bebaibo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Why does Bob always have that blank stare at our meetings? I think he's hermitating, so the boss won't ask him any questions.
Etymology: From hermit (a person living in solitude as a religous discipline...OED)
Incallnito
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ihn-kahl-NEE-toh
Sentence: Alex couldn't understand why his last date didn't return his 37 calls; little did he understand the power of going incallnito.
Etymology: incognito + call
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-20: 18:17:00
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Availabhor
Created by: verbony
Pronunciation: avail-ab-whore
Sentence: "you've got mail" or the latest ringtones really brings out the availabhor in me
Etymology: available+abhor
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Homeevashun
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: hohmi-vey-shun
Sentence: Whenever a topic comes up at a staff meeting that he knows little about and can't talk about for four hours, Bob goes into his homeevadshun mode shutting out everything and everyone.
Etymology: HOMEEVADSHUN - play on HOME INVASION
Disignor
Created by: austix
Pronunciation: dis-ig-nor
Sentence: Bob tends to disignor any calls from numbers he does not recognize
Etymology: Use of dis as in slang--disresect. Ignor a variation on ignore
