Verboticism: Intoredom
DEFINITION: v., To yawn or sigh repeatedly in an effort to subtly communicate one's lack of interest in the current conversation. n., A series of long, exasperated, and often escalating sighs indicating extreme boredom.
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Sighinglanguage
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: si-ing-lang-widj
Sentence: The audience communicated their discontent with the play via sighinglanguage.
Etymology: sigh, sign language
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COMMENTS:
clever, got my vote! - remistram, 2007-10-15: 09:36:00
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Goredom
Created by: astorey
Pronunciation: gore-dum
Sentence: After years of watching even the most ardent Democratic yawn repeatedly during his speeches, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore found a way to take goredom up a notch. His loud, exasperated sighs during a presidential debate became a new standard for goredom, which has yet to be matched.
Etymology: Boredom combined with Gore, as in the formerly monotonous, droning vice president of the U.S.
Yawnerate
Created by: Juny1
Pronunciation: yawn-ur-ate
Sentence: While reading the newspaper, I could not stop yawnerating there was nothing interesting to read.
Etymology:
Sighage
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: sahy/age
Sentence: We all unconsciously use sighage to politely and subtlely let those who we are talking to, know we are totally bored with the topic of conversation.
Etymology: SIGHAGE noun - from SIGH (to let out one's breath audibly from weariness) + SIGNAGE (sign, or symbol; the use of signs and symbols)
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Hintorude
Created by: FayeWord
Pronunciation: hint-o-rood
Sentence: The student got his message across to the teacher by the hintorude of mega yawns during the lecture.
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Monotonotice
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: muh-NOT-n-noh-tis
Sentence: Whenever Elwood became bored with a conversation he would issue a monotonotice, usually in the form of repeated and exaggerated yawns.
Etymology: Blend of 'monotony' (wearisome uniformity or lack of variety) and 'notice' (to give notice to; serve with a notice)
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - TJayzz, 2008-09-09: 06:37:00
Mo-No-TO-No-Nice! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-10: 07:00:00
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Boresigh
Created by: parm289
Pronunciation: boar - sigh
Sentence:
Etymology: boredom + sigh
Passagyawner
Created by: ajnemajrje
Pronunciation: Pass-AG-yahner
Sentence: John is such a passagyawner; whenever I speak he starts yawning to let me know hes bored of the conversation.
Etymology: Contraction of PASS(ive) + AGG(ressive) + YAWNER
Geezcantawordgameevenspellyourecorrectly
Created by: jimmmm
Pronunciation: Geez, can't a word game even spell "you're" correctly?
Sentence: "Your" very bad at spelling, verbotomy. "Your not fooling me for one second"? Did the apostrophe and the e get "verbotomized"?
Etymology: you're = you+are
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COMMENTS:
Okay, okay....so it's irritating to purists. BUT at least they were big enough to print your criticism, yes?
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/ - metrohumanx, 2008-09-12: 16:22:00
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Yawnatization
Created by: micvice
Pronunciation: yAWn-uh-tih-ZAY-shun
Sentence: By the time he had reached his third yawnatization, he realized his roomates story had been going on for 20 minutes.
Etymology: yawn, dramatization
