Verboticism: Beautisasterfy
DEFINITION: v. To see beauty in the midst of a complete disaster. n. The ability to see beauty in the rainbow hues of a toxic oil spill, or in the remnants of a poster torn down long ago, or in the subtle cracks in the plaster of a cheap, cold-water flat.
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Raliquake
Created by: ColeyPTrain
Pronunciation: Ral-uh-Kway-K
Sentence: The car was immediately flipped once the drove through the raliquake.
Etymology: A combination of the words earthquake and real.
Traumatopian
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trou-muh-toh-pee-uhn
Sentence: Jane sees herself as a traumatopian, envisioning the best of any calamity. Some of her friends think she's on transcendental medication.
Etymology: trauma (a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident) + utopian (involving idealized perfection)
Iridescentdisaster
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: ir-i-des-cent-dis-as-ter
Sentence: Valspar Valdez had a wreck and as he and his wife were upside down she exclaims,"Oh look honey I see an iridescentdisaster of opal colors and blues and pinks purples in the fuel and oil draining out!"
Etymology: Iridescent:Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors. Disaster: An occurrence causing destruction and distress; a catastrophe.
Spintrificate
Created by: RachelRocks
Pronunciation: (Spin-trif-i-cate)
Sentence: She spintrificated the hurricane's eye to see the bright sky beyond it.
Etymology: Spin: turn around Trif: adapt I: I cate: Choice
Beatihoridberg
Created by: meganfis
Pronunciation: Beati-horid-berg
Sentence: Oh, my, dog look how beatihoridberg that colorful poisoness beatle is!
Etymology: Beati- meaning the beautiful looking object. Horid- gross situation. Berg- the place of accident
Chaotickledpink
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kay yot ik ild pink
Sentence: The ability to be chaotickledpink is generally a solitary pleasure.
Etymology: chaotic tickled pink
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COMMENTS:
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-13: 05:53:00
I LOVE IT! - griffiegrrl, 2009-05-13: 12:31:00
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Distagedy
Created by: beverly
Pronunciation: dist ajedy
Sentence: She is a very distagedy person at the worst times.
Etymology: dist= far, not near agedy= tragedy distracted during a tragedy
Pausepective
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: Poz pek tif
Sentence: Pandora viewed tragedies differently than others...she had a different pausepective when it came to bad things or events. Like when she saw the red blood ooze from the wounds her knife had inflicted upon her unfaithful boyfriend, she thought, "Cool, that's the exact same shade as my new nail polish!" Or when she spied the blue tinge to his lips which happened after she had administered the cyanide in his cocktail. It was the grey-blue of the clouds before a violent thunderstorm. She just had to stop listening to that tune from "Chicago"..."He had it coming...he had it coming...!"
Etymology: Pause (reflect, take a moment to consider or think about) & Pos ( abbreviation of positive;involving advantage or good) & Persepective (a way of regarding situations or topics etc; viewpoint; vantage point)
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COMMENTS:
Pandora seems to be quite the extolminatrix! - dochanne, 2009-05-12: 05:22:00
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Aestheticlysm
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: es-thet-i-cliz-m
Sentence: Georgina walked through the door with her hair bedraggled and clothes dripping. It was a relief to escape the torrential downpour, but her spirits were escalated by the joyous greeting from her boyfriend. He rhapsodised over the colour of her hair spangled with glittery droplets and the way her curvy outline was emphasised by the wet clothing. His aestheticlysm blinded him to the mascara dripping down her cheeks and the mud splattered over her shoes and ankles.
Etymology: aesthetic (beauty) + cataclysm (catastrophe)
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Petaj! - Nosila, 2010-11-23: 07:30:00
Thank you Nosila. Thought I'd drop in. - petaj, 2010-11-24: 07:03:00
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Beautastrophe
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: byoot-as-tro-fee
Sentence: Despite the fact that the tornado tore down their house and killed their neighbors, Gavin let the beautastrophe shine through as he marveled at the way that the sun shined through the broken stained glass of the near-by church.
Etymology: beauty + catastrophe
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COMMENTS:
at first sight i thought this must have been an aussie verbotomist - but maybe that would have been spelt bewtastrophe. Love it - petaj, 2009-05-13: 05:33:00
nope - 100% Jersey girl! thanks ;) - libertybelle, 2009-05-13: 10:12:00
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