Verboticism: Despervengeance
DEFINITION: n., The deep feeling of despair, pain, and swelling need for revenge, which occurs when someone thoughtlessly trashes one of your pet projects. v., To cry out at the injustice of it all, especially if it is someone else's fault.
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Hobbuse
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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Vexasperation
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /vek-zas-puh-rey-shun/
Sentence: Charlie had been painstakingly working on his replica F-14 Tomcat model airplane for months, but while he was away at school today, his little brother must have found it and tried to fly it. The model was now utterly ruined, and Charlie roared in vexasperation.
Etymology: vex - to torment or distress (from Latin, vexus "agitation") + exasperation - the state of being agitated or annoyed (from Latin, exasperatus "thoroughly irritated")
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COMMENTS:
Your add a letter to blend two words that are so appropriate to the definition almost made me give up before I started. Great create! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:22:00
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:51:00
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Retriblabtion
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: re-tre-blab-shen
Sentence: It became easier and easier for Kimbery's co-workers to ignore her muttered retriblabtion. "At first you learn how to anticipate how she will deflect responsibility; then you learn to ignore her" Said Zinnia. Kimberly responded as expected: "Oh, she would say that. She hasn't been having to deal with what I go through on a daily basis. She wouldn't be able to handle it."
Etymology: retribution (repayment) + blab (excessive talk)
Ruinrage
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: roon-raje
Sentence: Andy was beside himself with ruinrage. Just as his toothpick model of the Eiffel Tower was almost complete, his neighbor burst into the den and knocked over the card table it rested on. Thousands of hours of work and 85,000,000 toothpicks flew around the room. As if by instinct, Andy went for his throat.
Etymology: Ruin (an irrecoverable state of devastation) + Rage (is a mental state that is one extreme of the intensity spectrum of anger)
Recipanguish
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ress-eh-PANG-wish
Sentence: Felicity suffered a severe bout of recipanguish when her boyfriend Phillipe criticized her buffet by saying her teriyaki was yucky, her upside down cake looked right side up and her tarts were exceedingly bland.
Etymology: Blend of 'recipe' ( set of instructions for making something from various ingredients) and 'anguish' (extreme pain, distress, or anxiety)
Recipatrocity
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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Sufferage
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Suff-er-ayge
Sentence: Fiona had spent months on her self portrait, so when her partner came in out of the rain with his mansize brolly he unfortunately stabbed the painting with the pointed end as he as putting it down, leaving a large hole right through the forehead. Fiona gasped and then started to howl, the sufferage she was feeling was beyond words. She was so angry she didn't know whether to hit him with the offending object or throw her masterpiece out of the window.
Etymology: Suffer(be affected by, experience something bad or unpleasant) + Rage(uncontrollable anger, a desire for revenge)
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COMMENTS:
My vote goes to 'sufferage' for today. :-) - logarithm, 2008-11-25: 06:46:00
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Countedcrossbitch
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: cown-ted kross-bich
Sentence: After Jeff used Shelly's hand embroidered monogrammed to wipe up after fixing his motorcycle in the living room, he had to endure hours of her counted cross bitch. didn't he know that those towels were for decoration? How could he not see all the hours she put into each and every thread pull??
Etymology: counted cross stitch -a form of a craft + bitch also the word cross relays that a person is angry. This was my submission last time, too...
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COMMENTS:
terrific word - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-25: 11:12:00
Wickedly clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-25: 11:13:00
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Despervengeance
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: des/per/ven/juhs/ns
Sentence: When Molly found out that her brother destroyed her science project, she went into a fit of despervengeance, blinding trashing everything in his room.
Etymology: desperation (despair) + vengeance
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COMMENTS:
nice very nice!!!!!!!!! - purpleman, 2008-02-06: 19:58:00
your welcome i made thee in first and if u see this tonight me getting desperst ti your class tomarow - purpleman, 2008-02-06: 19:59:00
lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololollolol - purpleman, 2008-02-06: 19:59:00
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Sorrowl
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)
