Verboticism: Erislapped
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.
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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...
Stubsidy
Created by: deadpanwalking
Pronunciation: STUB-sid-ee
Sentence: When I saw that my raise just barely qualified me for a higher tax bracket, I thanked my boss for the stubsidy.
Etymology: Stub + Subsidy
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
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
Wishwreck
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: wuish - rek
Sentence: Oliver was the victim of a wishwreck this week. This often happened to him. He would build up a fantasy about something or someone in his mind and when he finally got what he wanted, reality was often disappointing.
Etymology: wish, wreck
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COMMENTS:
Reality is for those who lack imagination - artr, 2009-07-28: 09:39:00
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Incogric
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "in-cog-rick"
Sentence: isn't it incogrick?
Etymology:
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
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