Verboticism: Gaiaaargh
DEFINITION: n. A sick planet which has a cold, a fever, and some kind of weird infection. v. To be worried sick about the health of the planet, because you know the problem is really the people.
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Epidemicorb
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: epee-dem-i-korb
Sentence: Pandora was doubled over with epidemicorb syndrome. She had totally freaked out because the Earth was infested by a population bent on self-destruction
Etymology: epidemic (widespread sickness) + dem (from greek for population demos) + orb (sphere, planet shaped)
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COMMENTS:
Pandora...she always did think outside the box! - Nosila, 2009-04-22: 22:32:00
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Planetosis
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Wow, look at all the flotsam in the oceans. I think earth is suffering from some pretty bad planetosis.
Etymology: Combines the words "planet" with the last two syllables of "halitosis"
Terrorfirma
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: tair-ah-fir-mah
Sentence: it was clear that this planet was in an advanced state of terrorfirma
Etymology: terror, terra firma
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COMMENTS:
Welcome Back! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-23: 01:38:00
nice to be back! - rikboyee, 2009-04-23: 18:30:00
Great word! - Nosila, 2009-04-25: 10:01:00
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Botoxic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bōtäksik
Sentence: Earth: Conditional critical. The bad news: The various poisons that humans have foisted on the planet have put it in a botoxic state. The good news: The surface of earth will be much smoother and less wrinkled once the pesky humans are gone and their annoying buildings and roads crumble and return to nature.
Etymology: botox (a drug prepared from the bacterial toxin botulin, used medically to treat certain muscular conditions and cosmetically to remove wrinkles by temporarily paralyzing facial muscles) + toxic (of or relating to poison)
Terrabulavatory
Created by: fabdiva
Pronunciation: tair-rah-bulla-vat-ory
Sentence: As the last gasp of air was inhaled, it finally dawned on a selfish population that terrabulavatory was a fait accompli.
Etymology: terra - earth. terrible - extremely bad. lavatory - toilet.
Influmenza
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: in flu men zah
Sentence: The total world population, per the 2008 estimate by the United States Census International Programs Center is 6,679,493,900. As of February 2009, the world's population is estimated to be about 6.76 billion. Overcrowding and people pollutions are wreakening our planet. Terra caught a influmenza and is in a dangerous state of flux.
Etymology: INFLUENZA, MEN. Men - in the broader sense of the word, is often used to mean all people. Influenza - a widespread illness. Ergo: If the world has caught a wide spread illness from too many men, it suffers influmenza. /// Wreakening is a verbotomy of wreak and weakening. /// The last word flux, means not only a state of constant change, but archaically was a term for severe diarrhea ... something mankind needs to stop inflicting on our planet.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent verbot Silvery, stating both cause and problem! Neat facts too! - Biscotti, 2009-04-22: 10:56:00
So can we get a vaccine against influmenza,silvery...sign me up! - Nosila, 2009-04-22: 22:34:00
Yes so true! Great word. - splendiction, 2009-04-22: 22:46:00
Best of the day! - Mustang, 2009-04-22: 22:56:00
Influmenza! Wonderful word and great info! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-22: 22:58:00
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Algoritis
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ahl gow rye tiss
Sentence: the only know cure for Algoritis is a globotomy
Etymology: Al Gore itis
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COMMENTS:
For overpopulation about going natural and using the Al Gore Rhythm Method? - readerwriter, 2009-04-22: 08:31:00
Both verbotomies are so timely and very witty! :-) - silveryaspen, 2009-04-22: 11:12:00
Owl Gore is a real hoot. Good word. - Mustang, 2009-04-22: 22:55:00
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Universillness
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: yoōnəvərsilnis
Sentence: The citizens of Mars have voted to study the science of moving their planet to another solar system to get away from the universillness called Earth.
Etymology: universe/universal (all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos) + illness (a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind)
Enferterra
Created by: sclarr14
Pronunciation: En-Fer-Ter-Ra
Sentence: *In an airplane* Hey! Look out the window! I can see the entire enferterra from up here!
Etymology: From the spanish root words enferma (sick) ans terra (planet)
Graveneworld
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: grave new world
Sentence: Capitalizing on their own freedoms, the earth’s inhabitants forgot to take care of their earth: her ground, air and water. The Graveneworld, as she came to be, suffered an imbalance which made her earth feverishly warm in areas and in other areas, cruelly cold or stormy. Oceans of earth were infected with their oil spills, chemicals, nuclear stubs. Earth’s inhabitants needed to take better care of her.
Etymology: GRAVE (destructive) NEW World: gets its meaning from some ideas in A. Huxley's Brave New World, such as the destructive effects of some "progress" like industrialization on nature.
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COMMENTS:
Greetings, Earthlings...take heed from splendiction's good advice! - Nosila, 2009-04-22: 22:30:00
(oops! your word isn't in your sentence) Nevertheless, it is a Great Word Play! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-22: 22:33:00
powerful image and such a great word it sticks in the memory ... will use your word! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-22: 22:37:00
thanks a. I fixed the sentence so that it contains the word. - splendiction, 2009-04-22: 22:44:00
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