Verboticism: Toothscary
DEFINITION: n. The feelings of apprehension which occur when undergoing a medical examination. v. To feel discomfort while a medical professional pokes and prods at the weak points of your body.
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Dentribulation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dentribyəlāshən
Sentence: The dental office that Michael goes to has all the modern amenities to deal with any dental issue he might come in with. What they have trouble dealing with is his dentribulations. He will sit in the lobby furtively looking over ages-old magazines dreading THAT moment - when the nurse sticks her head through the door and calls his name. Michael's inner adult tells him to relax and trust that he will be taken care of. His inner child is kicking, screaming, scratching and biting. The staff hates it when his inner child gets out. Michael has also found that feigning deafness or amnesia doesn't work very well.
Etymology: dental (of or relating to the teeth) + tribulation (a cause of great trouble or suffering)
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2009-04-16: 23:48:00
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Novication
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: no-vi-cay-shun
Sentence: Al felt extreme novication as he sat in the dentists chair, with the dentist fighting his tongue to get his instruments back!
Etymology: Play on popular numbing drug novacaine
Docshock
Created by: memyselfandbo
Pronunciation: dahk-shahk
Sentence: While at the dentist's office, Louie felt a surge of docshock when he saw the very shiny, very pointy instrument headed towards his mouth. Fortunately, the dental hygienist recognized the symptoms and slapped Louis upside the head to snap him out of it. "Thanks," he mumbled as he rubbed his throbbing head.
Etymology: Doctor: a licensed medical practitioner. Shock: something that jars the mind or emotions.
Supainful
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: so pain ful
Sentence: “Lay back and relax” really meant, it’s going to be supainful! She fought the urge to cry out in pain at the first jab!
Etymology: From: SUPINE and PAINFUL. To lay on your back and feel so much pain and discomfort that you feel like saying: "It's so painful".
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COMMENTS:
Right on the definition, easy to remember and to say. Supa Duper! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-16: 21:43:00
I agree it's quick and to the point! I like it! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-17: 03:42:00
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Hippocalyptic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hip pok a lip tik
Sentence: It was with a hippocalyptic feeling that Henry went to the only doctor in town. Being a newcomer, Henry was unaware that most locals did not see old Doc Sawyer Bones. They went to the City Hospital instead. Henry's pain and discomfort at going to a new doctor was only overshadowed by the extreme abdominal pains which had attacked him for the past few hours. It was only when he was counting backwards from 100 that he spied the certificate on the wall...Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine. He just hoped that he'd not wake up and find himself neutered!
Etymology: Hippocratic (an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates...first do no harm!) & Apocalypic (prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom;dread)
Probaphobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pro ba fo beeya
Sentence: Denny's fear of doctors and dentists was so extreme, it was actually a bad case of probaphobia. Many thought it went back to that fateful night when aliens beamed him up for some scientific rect-reation.
Etymology: Probe (to be poked or proddedexamine physically with or as if with a probe) & Phobia (irrational fear, anxiety over something)
Physicruel
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: fizz ick! crew ull
Sentence: "Let me check you over" Dr. Max M. Rough said. He measured and pressured, prodded and poked, nudged and budged, thrust and dug, then jabbed and stabbed, finally shooting my body with concotions of innoculations and vaccinations ... all those hurtful 'tions' ... I wished I could shun! During the mammogram, I wish I could slam a gram, or two, of his most tender flesh between those smashing, mashing plates! When he was done, I asked him "Why does a good going over have to feel so bad? Why is a physical so physicruel?"
Etymology: PHYSICAL, CRUEL. Physical - medical examination. Cruel - painful, harsh, hard, nasty and unpleasant.
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COMMENTS:
Good one...too bad they don't have manograms for guys like hium! - Nosila, 2009-04-16: 21:07:00
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Medicangst
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: med-ick-ang-st
Sentence: Her medicangst heightened when she witnessed out of the corner of her eye, her dental surgeon taking a long haul of an inhale of laughing gas just prior to her wisdom teeth extraction.
Etymology: medical + angst
Asstressment
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: a-stress-ment
Sentence: I need some tranquillisers to get over the asstressment, but I really don't want to go through another asstressment just to get a script.
Etymology: assessment + stress
Trepidenticious
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: trep-uh-den-TISH-yuss
Sentence: As her appointment for a dental exam and major cleaning grew nearer Wanda once again felt the severe tremors of her unreasonable trepidenticious reactions.
Etymology: Blend of 'trepidation' (tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation), 'dental' and the suffix '-ious (Having; having the qualities of)
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COMMENTS:
Very nicely blended. Right on the definition. Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-16: 12:51:00
Good one, mustang...I guess her mind began to Wanda! - Nosila, 2009-04-16: 21:14:00
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