Verboticism: Moanses
DEFINITION: n. Annoying neighbors who spend endless hours mowing their lawns, painting their fences, washing their cars, and browbeating you because you have a life. v. To express disapproval for someone's lifestyle.
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Neighbores
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nābôrz
Sentence: John found the people next door complete neighbores. What little personality they had is hyper-directed into lawn care. They have gone so far as to install electric fences to keep squirrels from walking on their perfectly-manicured yard. Squirrels in the trees you ask? Absolutely not! No trees! Trees are far too random in the way they grow and all that leaf dropping just won't do. Grass clipped to 5/8 inch and a few carefully-selected flowers are all they'll tolerate.
Etymology: neighbor (a person living near or next door to the speaker or person referred to) + bores (people whose talk or behavior is dull and uninteresting)
Lifenvy
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: li-fen-vie
Sentence: Cam and Sylvia took their lifenviousness too far when they parked their truck on Trish's front lawn. She's never home to take care of her property anyway and she won't even notice it there.
Etymology: life + envy
Twitbores
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: twit-bores
Sentence: The Adams family were such twitbores that neighbors could not survive in order to comply with their perfectionism.
Etymology: Twit- To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. Bores- a dull, repetitious, or uninteresting person, activity, or state.
Hoodhogs
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: hood-hawgz
Sentence: Patience had endured enough. She was exhausted from the nightly raids by her nebby neighbors, Neil and Nosy Parker. They pruned, they plowed, they picked. What deadheads! So what if her dog peed all over her lawn--it was her lawn, wasn't it? And the world needed more nitrogen! Last night was the last straw. Patience had been awakened by the sound of the duo flooding her yard with water. She stood at her window and watched in astonishment. Obviously these hoodhogs were trying to dilute the urine. Then they began to root around, scraping up the dead grass, quietly bickering over whether it should be to a depth of one-quarter or one-half inch. In the morning she had found a note on her back door saying, "Now you may sow replacement grass."
Etymology: From HOOD, slang/contraction for neighborhood + HOGS, meaning greedy or selfish, also a play on pig, derogatory for police
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COMMENTS:
No doubt distant cousins of hedgeghogs? - Mustang, 2009-03-17: 22:57:00
All that grass and not a sharp blade in sight when you need it! - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:29:00
Hahahaha! Good word! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:49:00
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Lifespurn
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: lie-f-sp-ern
Sentence: After many years of censuring her neighbours, the old woman finally reached the end of her lifespurn when she collapsed midcriticism on the decorative border that had whipped her into a judgmental frenzy.
Etymology: life + spurn + lifespan
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COMMENTS:
Admire how well you put your sentence, your thoughts, and your word together. Very well done! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 14:19:00
Good word and sentence. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-17: 19:41:00
Nothing like having a garden to die for... - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:31:00
Concise and excellent! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-18: 04:50:00
thanks for the nice comments - petaj, 2009-03-18: 07:36:00
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Neighsaybor
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nāsābər
Sentence: Ray lives next to a neighsaybor. The rules in his community say that you need to get permission from the improvement committee before taking on any exterior home improvement project. With Ray’s ”buddy” on the committee, nothing ever gets done. The group once tried to change the one-member veto rule but they were vetoed.
Etymology: naysayer (somebody who says no, denies) + neighbor (a person living near or next door to the speaker or person referred to)
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COMMENTS:
oops! sorry. should have read before I submitted :( - galwaywegian, 2010-09-28: 09:38:00
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Neighbores
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nay borz
Sentence: Alice lived in an average urban housing tract of single family dwellings. She lived next door to that one couple on every block who spends every spare second out there tending their yard. These neighbores used scissors to eradicate every long single blade of grass. Their yard looked unnatural in its manicured state and even the bugs avoided it. Too bad they treated Alice and her country garden home with such disdain. They thought she was a hoe...
Etymology: Neighbors (persons who live near each other) & Bores (a person who evokes boredom;make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool)
Goadneighbours
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: GOAD NAY bores
Sentence: My good neighbours had become goadneighbours, and now I was wishing for good fences. It all began when Mike got a promotion. He and his wife bought an SUV that they were always washing, waxing, and admiring while they took pictures of each other standing by it. They landscaped their yard, put in a pool, and built a sundeck. But everything was for show and pictures, and now the rest of us neighbours were tired of them harassing us. Suddenly our yards weren’t good enough, our houses needed painting and we were bringing down the neighbourhood. Any more goadneigbourly advice on how to take care of my weeds on my lawn or the cracks in my driveway, and I might just build that fence.
Etymology: GOAD: to keep irritating or annoying someone until they react GOOD NEIGHBOURS
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COMMENTS:
Puntastic verbotomy! So on the definition, too. Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-17: 14:37:00
You goad, Girl! - Nosila, 2009-03-17: 23:28:00
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Jerkaholics
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: jurk-uh-haw-lik
Sentence: Nicky lives next to jerkaholics. They are constantly mowing and trimming out in their yards. Clearly it is a conspiracy to make her look lazy. To make matters worse they dump their clippings in her overgrown lawn.
Etymology: jerk (a contemptibly naive) + workaholic (a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits)
Naboobs
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: NAY-bubes
Sentence: Loretta thought of her neighbors as naboobs, people of some wealth and circumstance who who had nothing better to do than improve their properties and their lives while she sunbathed, partied and did her best to just look pretty.
Etymology: Use of 'boob' (dufus, crude person) Play on the word 'nabob' (A person of wealth and prominence)