Verboticism: Ruttate
DEFINITION: n. An ingrained habit which is so entrenched in individual's personality that they practically have an identity crisis if anyone tries to change it. v. To try to modify a person's instinctive behavior and/or unconscious habits.
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Contragene
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: CONTRAry+GENEtic
Sentence: Try as she might, she could never contragene my obnoxious habits.
Etymology: CONTRAry+GENEtic
Habquiddity
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: habkwidətē
Sentence: Ralph is a man of habits. He drives the same route to work every day. He parks in the same spot. He takes 37 steps starting with his right foot to get to his desk. He gets a cup of coffee, adds two containers of creamer and one packet of sugar, stirring it 17 times. If anything breaks into his habquiddity he is a wreck for the entire day.
Etymology: habit (a settled or regular tendency or practice) + quiddity (the inherent nature or essence of someone or something)
Habitugrate
Created by: daniellegeorge
Pronunciation: ha-bit-you-grate
Sentence: The severity of his habitugrate is to the point that the couch can't sleep without John sitting on it with a beer for at least 3 hours each night.
Etymology: Habit, and grate (like grating cheese). Like trying to file down a bad habit only to make it sore and red.
Alternature
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: al-TER-nuht-sure
Sentence: Thoroughly fed up with Arties slovenly habits, Miranda devised a complicated alternature scheme wherein she planned to create changes in his long standing habits if only little by little
Etymology: Blend of 'alter' (change, remake) and 'nature' (inherent quality of a person or thing)
Fediosyncrasy
Created by: Christianack
Pronunciation: ef-ee-dee-oh-SIN-kra-see
Sentence: A new rumor spreading around the office- the boss has a fediosyncrasy of dressing up like Wonder Woman and roaming the streets of Los Angeles at dusk, twirling a pink-and-white baton.
Etymology: Fe (chemical symbol for Iron) + idiosyncrasy
Alterbrasion
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ôltərbrāzhən
Sentence: Cindy has done her best to help her boyfriend work on his bad habits. He remains unchanged, seemingly unscathed by her efforts. She, on the other hand, has more than one alterbrasion to treat. Her doctor tells her that she is lucky the friction that developed between the two of them didn’t cause her to burst into flames.
Etymology: alter (change or cause to change in character or composition) + abrasion (the process of scraping or wearing away)
Nosense
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: nonsence
Sentence: To help you, correct you or help you is nosense.
Etymology: Not and your Sence as in your mind.
Foibledagain
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: foy/bulled/again
Sentence: Drat! Foibledagain! I just got her to stop chewing her fingernails and now she's chewing her toenails.
Etymology: foible + play on foiled again
Mythang
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: meye th ang
Sentence: His mythang involved swivelling his hips, which were roughly the same proportions as a small battleship, in a circular motion while raising his eyebrows in a very scary manner, whenever he heard hawaiian music, which thankfully was not very often.
Etymology: my thang as in thing
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COMMENTS:
Interesting. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-22: 08:27:00
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