Verboticism: Hoticulture
DEFINITION: To pose, or posture, in a distinctive manner in order to express one's cultural affinities -- may be accompanied by awkward gestures.
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Remybod
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: remy-both
Sentence: look around, all the people want is remybod
Etymology: read my body
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COMMENTS:
Send me some reading glasses... - wordmeister, 2007-01-29: 19:07:00
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Metoocool
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Me - too - kool
Sentence: Her flip-flops scraping against the concrete were evidence of her metoocool attempts to be different from the rest of us.
Etymology: Me - one's own self; I Too - to an excessive degree Cool - fashionable; hip
Jerksticulate
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: jerk stick u late
Sentence: The sideline announcer was virtually invisible as posing fans jerksticulated before the camera.
Etymology: Jerk (noun and verb) + gesticulate
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COMMENTS:
Oooh. I hadn't seen this one when I made mine ("gesdickulate"). Sorry. - Osomatic, 2007-01-29: 13:46:00
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Gesdickulate
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: jes-dick-you-late
Sentence: There's nothing more embarassing than the gesdickulations of trust-fund kids who think they are "street."
Etymology: I'm too polite to say.
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COMMENTS:
HA!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-29: 14:51:00
I predickt your word will fetch a lot of votes! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-29: 14:59:00
I predickt your word will fetch a lot of votes! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-29: 15:18:00
Danke, purple. :) - Osomatic, 2007-01-29: 16:40:00
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Classture
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Klars-chur
Sentence: Harry's classture consisted of displaying copious amounts of bling, making West-side hand movements, and lamenting his social environment. He was, of course, the typical British "chav" (NB I'm not an authority on chavs).
Etymology: Class+gesture, but also a mutation of "culture" to suggest 'culture derived from social class'.
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COMMENTS:
Good one Discoveria! Also like the way it rhymes with posture... - wordmeister, 2007-01-29: 19:08:00
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Suburgang
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: sub-urg-ang
Sentence: He planned to suburgang it up in his fraternity's house picture.
Etymology: suburb + gang, rich kids throwing gang signs
Befrontery
Created by: smokey
Pronunciation: bee + FRUNT + urh + ee
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
- smokey, 2007-01-29: 11:58:00
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Overgesturalize
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: oh-vurr-jess-chur-all-ayze
Sentence: most people tend to overgesturalize for every photograph.
Etymology: over+gesture+generalize
Jerkulate
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: jerk-yoo-late
Sentence: The skater kids liked to jerkulate to show their affiliation.
Etymology: jerk + gesticulate
