Verboticism: Gynhologymduo
DEFINITION: v., To find a lost item immediately after purchasing a replacement. n., An item which is lost and cannot not be found unless a replacement is purchased.
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Accumulose
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: acc-youm-you-lose
Sentence: catherine had a whole drawerful of sunglasses, due to her tendency to accumulose her eyeware.
Etymology: accumulate + lose
Postrihtagane
Created by: Artomun
Pronunciation: post-RIT-uh-gain
Sentence: n: I lost my new phone; it's probably a postrihtagane... v: I end up postrihtaganing everything I buy...
Etymology: Prefix 'post' meaning 'after'; 'riht' derived from Old English 'rihtan' meaning 'to replace'; 'agane' derived from Old English 'ágan' meaning 'to obtain'. Combined as 'postrihtagane' to mean 'after-replace-obtain'.
Substidude
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: səbstidoōd
Sentence: Now that their star has healed, the baseball team needs to figure what to do with his substidude.
Etymology: substitute (a person or thing acting or serving in place of another) + dude (a man; a guy)
Pairendipity
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pare-en-dipp-uh-tee
Sentence: Feeling relief at finding his comfortable old coat he thought had been lost forever, Randal counted his blessings at the pairendipity of now having a brand new coat along with the old, comfortable one.
Etymology: Blend of pair and 'serendipity' (good fortune; luck)
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COMMENTS:
great word and sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-25: 09:13:00
Terrific - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-26: 18:18:00
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Redittoscover
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: re-dit-oh-skuhv-er
Sentence: After purchasing 20 puppies he realized that this redittoscovering was futile, he knew little Pooky was gone for good and he would never find him.
Etymology: rediscover + ditto
Gynhologymduo
Created by: NeuroGlyph
Pronunciation: Jyne-hole-oh-gem-do-ho
Sentence: Gynhologymduo! Pididdle has officially been replaced.
Etymology:
Shopstitute
Created by: zavijava
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I couldn't find my cheese grater until after I'd gone to the mall for a shopstitute.
Etymology: Shop + substitute
Purcoup
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: per-koop
Sentence: I purcouped my cell phone, so now I have two.
Etymology: purchase + recoup
Buyonefindone
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: buy-one-find-one
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
BOFO, instead of BOGO? - Nosila, 2010-02-24: 22:06:00
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