Verboticism: Awenshake
DEFINITION: v. To hover near, or directly on top of, a person who is busy doing something else, in order to force them to immediately surrender their full attention. n. A person who invades other people's private spaces and uses the social discomfort to demand attention.
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Trailgrate
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: trail/grate
Sentence: Cindy would trailgrate her friends so closely that they often collided. They took to wearing inner tubes to define their personal space.
Etymology: trail (follow closely) + grate (get on one's nerves) + tail gate
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COMMENTS:
Very good!! - Mustang, 2008-04-12: 00:13:00
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-12: 02:34:00
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Spaceinvade
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: space+invade
Sentence: I had to spaceinvade him to get his attention again.
Etymology: space+invade
Clinger
Created by: jboileau97
Pronunciation: Cling-Er./
Sentence: that "woman" is a clinger.
Etymology: To Cling
Constihoveritis
Created by: sjacksonnnn4
Pronunciation: CON-STEE-HUVUR-EYE-TIS
Sentence: Aye this girl has a mad case of constihoveritis!
Etymology: consti- continuous, hover, itis- disease
Tarryerist
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tar ree er ist
Sentence: "Oh, no!" thought Bernie, "it's Tina the Tarryerist again". She'd stand just inside his door waiting for him almost the moment his phone rang. No matter how long his call, she'd wave to him, mouth words at him, carry on and generally make a nuisance of herself. He'd called her out on this behavior before, but she ignored his wishes and kept on torturing him like this. When he was not on the phone, she was always elsewhere in the building. It was hard to get too mad at her though, since she was only 2 years old...
Etymology: Tarry (loiter, linger) & Terrorist (characteristic of someone who employs terrorism (especially as a political weapon)
Conmolestment
Created by: ThomasCannaday
Pronunciation: Con-mole-est-meant
Sentence: The woman was violently Conmelesting the man attempting to do his work, for which he became very upset.
Etymology: Con- Together Molest- Annoy/Troublesome Ment- Result of
Reptpop
Created by: 751294
Pronunciation: rept-pop
Sentence: She wouldn't stop reptpopping me.
Etymology: rept- creep pop- people
Ultraturbian
Created by: valevans
Pronunciation: all-tra-turb-e-an
Sentence: At Stewbrine High School Janie was known as an ultraturbian because of her constant annoyances. Whenever her best friend texted during a sleepover Janie would begin to yell and throw things at her to get her attention.
Etymology: ultra-beyond, exceedingly, turb-to disturb
Corpuspress
Created by: Haydon
Pronunciation: Corp us press
Sentence: She corpuspressed her friend to death.
Etymology: Corpus- body press- to press against
Mesurp
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: me/zurp
Sentence: Self centred Betty always mesurps who ever she can, whenever she can, even when they are busily engaged in important activities. She is a career mesurper.
Etymology: me (because it's always about me, look at me, listen to me, me, me, me, me) + usurp (encroach, butt in, take over, commandeer)
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COMMENTS:
Met many like her, unfortunately! - Nosila, 2008-04-11: 22:47:00
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-12: 02:32:00
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