Verboticism: Fictuator
DEFINITION: v. To identify so strongly with character from a book, show, or urban legend, that you become convinced that the story is actually about you. n., A person who believes they are a fictional character in wonderfully tragic and heroic story.
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Plotjack
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈplɒt.dʒæk/ /plot-jack/
Sentence: My ex plotjacked my favorite song, and now I can't hear it without imagining that it's about her.
Etymology: plot + hijack (as in "skyjack" or "carjack")
Transilvain
Created by: bananabender
Pronunciation: tranz-sil-vayn
Sentence: Clark (who changed his name by deed poll) was so desperate to live out his hero's adventures that he was found stowing away on Challenger in a bid "to reach his unreachable star". He has a well-developed altar ego.
Etymology: Transilvane: (Superman) a fictional small artificial planet with horror movie character inhabitants. Vain: conceited. In vain: without effect or avail; to no purpose
Transmogrifancy
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: tranz - MOG - ruh - fan - see
Sentence: While reading fantasy stories Mary Beth would often transmogrifancy and actually come to believe she was the heroine in the story.
Etymology: Transmogrify + fancy (fantasize)
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COMMENTS:
Anyone that takes a root word from Calvin and Hobbes has my automatic vote. - Banky, 2008-01-24: 15:35:00
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Biobliophile
Created by: loxhobabl
Pronunciation: by-o-blee-o-file
Sentence: You know she's a biobliophile if she clicks her heels together when she's homesick.
Etymology: biography + bibliophile
Delusivescape
Created by: kmartinmt
Pronunciation: de-lusiv-escape
Sentence: "Tommy imagined himself in every heroic movie, and was later diagnosed with Delusivescape."
Etymology:
Uzbazur
Created by: Uzbazur
Pronunciation: OOZBAHZOOR
Sentence: Uzbazur Ashwaurz
Etymology: Black Drum
Austentatious
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: osten/tay/shush
Sentence: There is an austentatious group that hangs out in the park wearing period clothing.
Etymology: ostentatious + jane austen
Fictuator
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: fik-choo-ey-ter
Sentence:
Etymology:
Carreycature
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: karry/ka/chur
Sentence: He had become such a carreycature that you could never be sure if you would encounter the Cable Guy, Bruce Almighty or Ace Ventura.
Etymology: caricature + carrey (as in Jim Carrey)
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COMMENTS:
Like the way your creation incorporates what a cartoon of a charcter such people do become! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-24: 09:30:00
thanks silvery - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-24: 12:04:00
Very clever! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-24: 16:23:00
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