Verboticism: Conflaggravation

DEFINITION: v. To worry about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the ultimate demise of our planet. n. Anxiety caused by the fear of nuclear bumblers.
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Nukefearbungle
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Newk-fee-er-bun-gel
Sentence: Tony would often lie awake at night stricken with the thought of nukefearbungle. All sorts of questions ran through his mind, what if someone accidentally pushed THE button resulting in the destruction of our planet. What would happen? Would there be any survivors? How long would they be able to survive? He finally decided to start building a nuclear bunker in his garden and stock it with enough food and supplies to last for at least three years.
Etymology: Nuke(short for nuclear) + Fear)a state of high anxiety) + Bungle(a istake, or be incompetent) = Nukefearbungle) See Nuclear bunker
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COMMENTS:
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:42:00
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Bangxiety
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bang zy itee
Sentence: When you took Professor Atom Baum's physics class, it was hard not to develop bangxiety about the world's fate. According to Atom,the world was always on the verge of nuclear war. Of course, Professor Atom Baum was married to Professor Eva Destruction, so there was always cheery chat around their dinner table. Neither of them ever bought green bananas, just in case they were right.
Etymology: Bang (Explosion;loud noise;the swift release of a store of affective force;(cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin and the demise of the universe) & Anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)
Reactoreaction
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: re ak tor re ak shun
Sentence: After the professor gave his lecture about nuclear proliferation and its destruction of our world, Enola had a reactoreaction. She worried that her nuclear family would not understand and would be in con-fusion if they knew about this disaster. Their fission vacations would change, no more gathering mushrooms and they would have a chain reaction to this news. She decided not to alarm them and to instead just Fermi la bouche!
Etymology: Reactor ((physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements) & Reaction (a process in which one or more substances are changed into others & an idea evoked by some experience)
Thebigbangfeary
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: the/big/bang/feer/ee
Sentence: Stu equated thebigbangfeary to all the nations on the planet giving ultimatums and counting to ten. It was inevitable that someone would push the button. Even balloons bursting caused him to break out in a cold sweat.
Etymology: The Big Bang Theory + fear
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COMMENTS:
Clever! - TJayzz, 2009-02-04: 07:30:00
terrific choices in your etymology for captures the feeling that sometimes the end of one thing is the beginning of another, even though we don't know what or if that may be. Your verbotomy will live forever in my memory along with hope. Super in the nth degree! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:47:00
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Wmdiety
Created by: chaiandallthatjazz
Pronunciation: dub-ul-u-m-dI-e-tee
Sentence: Approaching 2012 there's an air of WMDiety amongst the peoples!
Etymology: WMD (weapons of mass destruction) + anxiety (worry, apprehension) + deity (God, divinity)
Worrywartmonger
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: WER ee WART MONG ger
Sentence: Joe is such a worrywartmonger. He thinks everyone is out to start a war. He has his whole basement lined with canned goods, and he swears his next door neighbour is having seances with Hitler.
Etymology: WORRYWART: Someone who worries about a lot of things WARMONGER: a person who tries to start wars and encourage others to start wars
Defissioncy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: de fish on see
Sentence: Pierre was terribly afraid of nuclear war. In fact he was suffering a severe defissioncy. When people joked about nuclear holocaust to him, he always said "Fermi la bouche!"
Etymology: Deficiency (something lacking) & Fission (a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy) Enrico Fermi (Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954))
Conflaggravation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: con-flahg-rah-VAY-shun
Sentence: Though his colleagues tried to convince Professor Bernhardt that his fears of a nuclear holocaust were unreasonable, the professor nevertheless suffered an almost constant state of conflaggravation.
Etymology: Blend of 'conflagration' (A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning) and 'aggravation' (A source of continuing, increasing irritation or trouble)
Nufearical
Created by: amberlily
Pronunciation: nu-feer-ik-al
Sentence: "We're gonna get nuked!", said Ed, his eyes wide. "Calm down!", said Jane. "You're completely nufearical."
Etymology: fear of nuclear activity, paired with hysterical behavior
Fearoshima
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: feer - oo - sheem - ah
Sentence: Nester constantly watched documentaries and read dozens of books about the cold war, World War II, nuclear capabilities and armaments. Although he had learned a great deal of history and could expound on scientific theories, knowing more about these topics also resulted in a great deal of fearoshima for Nester. He began to fret more and more that the end could be near.
Etymology: Fear + Hiroshima >>>Fear (be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event) Hiroshima (a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb)
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COMMENTS:
Powerful verbotomy - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:25:00
hehehe - galwaywegian, 2009-02-04: 10:48:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:44:00
I agree...excellent! - kateinkorea, 2009-02-06: 02:21:00
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