Verboticism: Suckcess
DEFINITION: n., A "talent" for which an individual takes a great deal of personal pride, even though it is just a common, mundane skill that almost everyone can do. v., To take pride in a special talent which in fact is not special at all.
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Hypernormalize
Created by: Penelopeme
Pronunciation: hy per normal ize
Sentence: Eating became the hypernormalized habit, to which, no one but Johnny, appreciated.
Etymology:
Craptitude
Created by: Tjay33
Pronunciation: Cr-ap-tee-tude
Sentence: Billy's parents actively encouraged him to eat enormous amounts as they thouht he had a natural craptitude for eating. The proud look on their faces said it all when Billy started to tuck into his fourth family sized bag of crisps.
Etymology: Crap(nonsense, rubbish) + Aptitude(an ability,inclination or skill)
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COMMENTS:
that definitely would produce a load of craptitude - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-18: 10:55:00
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Proudindulgence
Created by: kmartinmt
Pronunciation: proud-in-dul-gence
Sentence: " had what you would call a Proudindulgence in the art of eating food."
Etymology:
Perfiction
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: per fik shun
Sentence: Persimmon tartly touted her computer skills even though she couldn't tell you the difference between an icon and an image, or hardware from software. Quite often, her coworkers burst into smogrins (smiles smothering grins and chuckles) over her computer perfictions!
Etymology: An interplay to combine perfection with fiction! What one does when they try to pretend to perfection, but do not succeed in such fiction.
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COMMENTS:
Great word - TJayzz, 2008-11-19: 07:49:00
Perfiction IS perfection! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-19: 20:24:00
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Hackudosity
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: HAK-koo-DOHZ-ee-TEE
Sentence: As young, haccoladed Herbert plowed through a pile-high plethora of pasta, his proud parents' banalaudations grew louder in hackudosity.
Etymology: Blend of HACK: trite, routine and commonplace ; KUDOS: Glory; fame; renown; praise. & ITY: state, condition
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COMMENTS:
Very Hackurrate word! - Nosila, 2008-11-18: 22:14:00
Wow. Nicely crafted sentence! - metrohumanx, 2008-11-19: 20:11:00
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Craptitude
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: krap-ti-tood
Sentence: Despite his pride over knowing the name of every Real World participant over the last 19 seasons, somehow Evan couldn't parlay this craptitude into gainful employment.
Etymology: crap - sheer worthless feculence + aptitude - an ability given of natural sources
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COMMENTS:
Clever! - bananabender, 2008-01-25: 01:17:00
Good word combo! :) - Dougalistic, 2008-01-25: 04:36:00
I can't even think of a word now. Craptitude is exactly right. - zebrahdh, 2008-01-25: 05:31:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-25: 11:18:00
You really wiped us out with this clever creation! Right on! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-25: 11:42:00
Clap, clap, clap for "crapitude" Really good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-25: 15:31:00
I should learn to read the previously submitted words before submitting something similar but less funny. - ErWenn, 2008-01-26: 12:31:00
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Nilskill
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: nil skil
Sentence: Little Johnny's doting parents were so proud of his talents. His overeating was a particular nilskill that they had fed and nourished over the years. Being chubby and hungry themselves, they encouraged him to overeat at every opportunity. They did not realize that he had developed his nilskill so well that left alone for over an hour without food, he might even gnaw off his own foot!
Etymology: Nil (nothing, zero) & Skill (ability acquired by training, talent, aptitude)
Personalpride
Created by: purpleman
Pronunciation: per/son/al/pri/de
Sentence: we all usually expose personalpride
Etymology: personal+pride
Triviart
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: trivvy-art
Sentence: Morty's innocuous persona could not even be jazzed up by developing a triviart. He had not even one skill that was marginallly better than the next man's that could be talked up.
Etymology: trivial + art
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COMMENTS:
Inspirational word. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-19: 20:16:00
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Haccolade
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: hak-uh-LEYD
Sentence: As young, tritumphant Robert plowed through a plethora of pasta, his proud parents haccoladed heartily their fill-belly fillistine.
Etymology: Blend of HACK: one who does routine, dull, trite work etc & ACCOCOLADE v.tr - to praise, to honour. TRITUMPHANT (trite & triumphant) FILLISTINE (fill-up & Philistine).
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COMMENTS:
Hacks right up there! I really like it! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-25: 11:45:00
how hilarious - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-25: 12:16:00
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