Verboticism: Yackattack

DEFINITION: n., Forced small talk used by professional caregivers to put patients at ease. (Not usually effective.) v., To ask insipid questions while subjecting a person to an intimate, awkward or painful procedure.
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Nitrousyakside
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: nye-truhs-YAK-syed
Sentence: Little did the dentist know that Alex could counter her nitrousyakside by talking even longer and more boringly than she.
Etymology: nitrous oxide (administered at the beginning of dental work to ease pain) + yak + bedside manner
Shiberism
Created by: Jpwareham
Pronunciation: Shi/ber/ism
Sentence:
Etymology: Shi-random,berism- type of gibberous
Hospitalitalk
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: hos.pit.al.lee.torque
Sentence:
Etymology: hospital, talk
Versadism
Created by: ngrzeda
Pronunciation: ver/sa/dism
Sentence: In between the doctor's incessant one-way conversation his smile could be seen all throughout Kyle's painful procedure; his versadism obvious to any onlooker.
Etymology: ver - verse sadism - delight in cruelty
Proprattlaction
Created by: jmckays
Pronunciation: pro-prattl-aktion
Sentence: The doctor's proprattlaction proved ineffective as the scope slid into an intimate location no one but myself and my closest lovers had gone before...
Etymology: professional; prattle; distraction
Ineptpesk
Created by: 526630
Pronunciation: in-ept-pesk
Sentence: The dentist is always such an ineptpesk, talking to me while cleaning my teeth when he know i cant talk.
Etymology: inept-awkward pesky-annoying
Jabbertalky
Created by: TheFlawlessWord
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Beware the Jabbertalk, my twit! The hose that sucks, the drills that buzz! Beware the dental bird, and spit The voluminous cottonmouth fuzz!"
Etymology: Apologies to Lewis Carroll
Splatterpatter
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sp latt ur patt ur
Sentence: She engaged in constant splatterpatter, interjecting euphemisms and repatree through the constant stream of gristle and gore
Etymology: patter, splatter
Eyedoangiveashitchat
Created by: Lolagrrl
Pronunciation: Eye-doan-give-ay-shit-chat
Sentence: The two convention-goers made eyedoangiveashitchat while waiting for the elevator to take them to Karaoke night at the hotel's fireside lounge. Neither were enriched by the experience
Etymology: The name says it all... ;-)
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COMMENTS:
Btw: I consider singing Karaoke at a Hotel lounge to be an intimate, awkward AND painful procedure. ;D - Lolagrrl, 2007-10-18: 15:31:00
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Speakuneasy
Created by: KenM2
Pronunciation:
Sentence: as soon as the dentist placed the the drill in my mouth he started his speakuneasy.
Etymology: speak and uneasy
