Voted For: Khaan

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: reh/si/pa/traw/sitee

Sentence: "All the sweet green icing flowing down" she wailed. "no matter that you look like Harry Potter, I demand recipatrocity" " "Also you'll have to pay for drycleaning because the green icing turned my yellow cotton dress blue."

Etymology: recipe + atrocity + reciprocity

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COMMENTS:

Is that her father? She might go for recipatricidity - petaj, 2008-11-25: 06:44:00

great suggestion petaj - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-25: 11:09:00

Kitchen chemistry to cook up a neat word that very much captures the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-25: 11:45:00

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Created by: Banky

Pronunciation: hawb-byoos

Sentence: Randall took a great deal of hobbuse from the other Hell's Angels because of his extensive scrapbooking, usually featuring his pomerdoodle Mitsi.

Etymology: hobby + abuse

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COMMENTS:

Humorously clever! Easy to say. Meaning immediately evident. Nice creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:18:00

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Created by: roulouken331

Pronunciation: Fick- pug- net- clam

Sentence: I made my siter ficpugnetclam so much, when I ripped her favorite tulip paper, that my mother had to bring her to a therapist and priest to make her calm down.

Etymology: Fic- to make Pugn- fight et- and clam- cry out

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: sŭ'roul

Sentence: When Jenny discovered that none of her data had been backed up before the catastrophic system failure, she let out a deep, guttural sorrowl which could be heard echoing throughout the neighborhood. David heard the cry penetrating his walls, almost a block away, and wondered if perhaps there was a birthing bovine somewhere in the area.

Etymology: SORROW (Mental suffering or pain caused by injury, loss, or despair.) + HOWL (To utter or emit a long, mournful, plaintive sound)

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: pee-KYUH- pahy

Sentence: Despite her piqueccupy when her pet project to bake the biggest "kanga" pie in the land was scabotaged, Roxie, although dreampeeved, immediately sought rootaliation. ...............Oh, forgive me Skippy!

Etymology: PIQUECCUPY: "pique": the feeling of hurt, vexation or resentment & "occupy": to busy or engage or employ the mind, energy, attention. SCABOTAGE: sabotaged by strikebreaking, non-unionized, labour.

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COMMENTS:

So many excellent verboticisms. Wow! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:13:00

love rootaliation - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-06: 11:49:00

nicenice - purpleman, 2008-02-06: 20:01:00

I like scabotage, too. - Tigger, 2008-02-07: 01:09:00

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Created by: seniouxa13

Pronunciation: angs-ter-dam-ney-shun

Sentence: Nooohh!! My boyfriend got my sister pregnant and they eloped to who-knows-where!! If I find them, they're going to experience my eternal angsterdamnation!!! *sniff* I'm going to write an emo poem now...

Etymology: From angst(having intense feelings of sadness and insecurity) and damnation(subjected to being damned)

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-06: 11:54:00

Dramatic sentence and word! Devilishly good! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 15:46:00

No dutch comforthere! Intresting word;luv the sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:06:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: blāment

Sentence: Gerry*s office has little interest in solving problems. The workers seem to want to blament more than fix, point fingers more than point the way.

Etymology: blame (assign responsibility for a fault or wrong) + lament (a passionate expression of grief or sorrow)

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I blament the claim that severe earthquakes are caused by womens' immodesty! - splendiction, 2010-04-26: 22:10:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: HART-ringr

Sentence: It was yet another heartwringer for Miriam, leaving her feeling crushed, and somewhat revengeful when her boyfriend Delbert told her her upside down cake looked right side up, her apple tarts were bland, and her teriyaki was teriyucky.

Etymology: Blend of heart and wringer..."a painful, difficult, or tiring experience; ordeal"

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: uh-SET-uh-clizzum

Sentence: Waldo worked for a college and took a free course on "creating your own web page". In a spirit of altruism and public service, he spent three months creating the BEST eye-popping website this side of the Mississippi, with useful links to all the academic disciplines. When he submitted his labor of love to the academic dean, he was informed that "Staff don't get websites. only Faculty get websites". After a brief primal scream, an ASCETICLYSM descended upon Waldo's heart like a ton of dross. He gradually came to realize that his website made others look pallid in comparison, and after terminating his bitter employment with Bogus Community College, Waldo now sends his links one at a time - to people who can appreciate them. Attachment, loss, frustration and desire are all facets of the same glittery jewel which only result in sorrow. He's now building a scale model of the Eiffel tower - if only he can obtain enough toothpicks.

Etymology: ASCETIC+cataCLYSM=ASCETICLYSM..........ASCETIC:practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal discipline,austere in appearance, manner, or attitude;Greek askētikos, literally, laborious, from askētēs one that exercises, hermit, from askein to work, exercise.....CATACLYSM:catastrophe,a momentous and violent event marked by overwhelming upheaval and demolition ; broadly : an event that brings great changes.French cataclysme, from Latin cataclysmos, from Greek kataklysmos, from kataklyzein to inundate, from kata- + klyzein to wash.

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COMMENTS:

WOW! Copy and paste this into your address bar: http://www1.pacific.edu/eng/faculty/jking/toothpicks.html - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 10:45:00

...then "GO" - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 10:52:00

Hey I still have one more vote left! Guess who am I voting for? ;-) - logarithm, 2008-11-25: 20:47:00

Very impressive verboticism and etymology! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-26: 03:57:00

Terrific - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-27: 02:09:00

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑɑɑɑn/

Sentence: The power went out last night while I was halfway through an unsaved project, and I became so filled with khaan that I left a handprint on my mouse.

Etymology: 2008, from Khan Noonien Singh, character in the television series "Star Trek" (1967) and in the film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982), whose name was famously screamed by Captain Kirk. Khan's first name is possibly coined from khan (n.), c.1400,

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COMMENTS:

Very unique and stunning in it's simplicity ... once I read the etymology ... I got it! Finally! Very unique! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:38:00

Eponymic words, a great way to go! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:32:00

Apparently I exceeded the character limit on the etymology here. And the sentence is absolutely true. Except that I really had only just started the project. And I didn't actually deform my mouse. And I guess I wasn't really all that upset either. - ErWenn, 2008-02-06: 23:19:00

I try to change it up every now and then. Only so much portmanteau I can take, so sometimes I try to coin words after people, conjugate or rearrange phrases (a la Mustang's "heartwrench"), or piece together a word from prefixes, roots, and suffixes (as in "necrohippoflict"). Sadly, I rarely get any votes when I do. - ErWenn, 2008-02-06: 23:22:00

Anyone have any other gimmicks that they use to construct words? - ErWenn, 2008-02-06: 23:23:00

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