Verboticism: Habitugrate
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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Himertia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: him ur sha
Sentence: Betty was a scientist and her best study was her husband Gill. He always displayed a bad case of himertia. He seldom stirred for days on end. She fully expected him to be hanging by his toenails from a tree when she got back from the lab. Oh well, she was doing her thesis on his himertia...had she done it on a female, it would have been called inhertia. But we all know that a woman's work is never done.
Etymology: Him (male person) & Inertia (the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force; a disposition to remain inactive or inert)
Joklivity
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: joh-kliv-i-tee
Sentence: Andy sees humor in almost every situation. He is always clowning around to make his friends laugh. His joklivity ran head-first into the noclivity of the TSA agent at the airport and almost got him excluded from his flight. That could have caused woeclivity.
Etymology: joke (something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act) + proclivity (natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition)
Tundramentalist
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: tuhn-druh-MEN-tuhl-ist
Sentence: Bob was a tundramentalist, impervious to, and suspicious of, change, with his mind and manner of living permanently frozen in extreme beliefs and practices.
Etymology: TUNDRA: A vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the sub-soil is "permanently frozen" (like our friend's mind) and supporting low growing "vegetation" (like our friend's head) and "stunted"(like his personality) shrubs. Altho his body covering seems to show an adaptation to his environment. & FUNDAMENTALIST: Extreme conservatism in ones beliefs and practices. 2, One an (IST) with a TUNDRA (permanently frozen); MENT(al) (mind).
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COMMENTS:
As one who lives near the tundra, I have met many like him above...Good Word, OB Wan Kenobe! - Nosila, 2008-05-21: 21:33:00
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Idiction
Created by: melodydrama
Pronunciation: eye-dick-shun
Sentence: Time and time again she tried to break his idiction to singing, but he was so tone deaf it had become a part of his daily routine.
Etymology: identity+addiction
Convertid
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: con-vert-id
Sentence: Marlin resisted being convertid. To do housework was an affront to his manly identity and he was in crisis. Why can't he just go play some golf and let Jenna dust and everyone would be happy? Jenna thought this attitude was Neanderthal and swore that if she had a son he would be trained better.
Etymology: convert: to change something from one use to another; to cause someone to change opinion or belief + id: Freudian theory identifies ID as the division of the psyche that is responsible for unconsious instinctual impulses + ID: a form of identification that verifies status or maturity
Contragene
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: CONTRAry+GENEtic
Sentence: Try as she might, she could never contragene my obnoxious habits.
Etymology: CONTRAry+GENEtic
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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Alterashun
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: al ter ay shun
Sentence: When Lidia triewd to change George's behaviour of ignoring others, she found it difficult to make such an alterashun.
Etymology: Alteration (change) & Shun (to avoid;banish;ignore)
Rutate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ruht/teyt
Sentence: For years Jenny tried to rutate Joe's extreme behaviours, but finally had to turn the job over to a licensed psychiatrist.
Etymology: rut (a fixed, or established course of life) + mutate (to change; alter)
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)