Verboticism: Passengeritis
DEFINITION: v. To instinctively slam your foot on "the brakes" even though you're just a passenger. Often occurs when the actual driver fails to brake appropriately. n. A sudden jerk of the leg.
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Drivinginstructorism
Created by: ichiromania
Pronunciation: driving instructor ism
Sentence: from the way her foot is moving, that is a clear display of drivinginstructorism
Etymology: driving instructors
Brakejunkie
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: brake-junk-ee
Sentence: Chris was such a brakejunkie that he couldn't sit still while riding with anybody unless he was the driver.
Etymology: brake + junkie
Shotgunxiety
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: shot/guhn/zahy/i/tee
Sentence: She could only be in the front seat when she was driving, or shotgunxiety caused her to constantly stomp her brake foot.
Etymology: shotgun + anxiety
Pedapriorsist
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: ped a pri or sist
Sentence: angie was the worst pedapriorsist I knew. I never let her sit in the front of the car.
Etymology: from pedal pressing and being prior of an event, and wanting to assist with driving.
Antedisasterinstinctiveswervation
Created by: SydneyNFox
Pronunciation: ANT-EH-DIZ-AH-STIR-IN-STINK-TIV-SWERV-A-SHUN
Sentence: I slapped my foot down hard antedisasterinstictivswervigly,knowing if John didn't stop soon we would die!
Etymology: Ante-(Latin- before) Disaster-(Italian: Disastro- ill starred event) Instinct-(Latin: Instinctus- impulse) Swerve-(Old English: Sweorfan- depart, leave, turn aside)
Stopprehension
Created by: kryptik
Pronunciation: staw-pre-hen-shun
Sentence: Everyone Kate drives with suffers from acute stopprehension, which increases with every red light she misses.
Etymology: From the words 'stop' and 'apprehension'
Abdebreak
Created by: rfrey121
Pronunciation: ab-de-break
Sentence: As the car sped out of contol and the driver did not break, the passenger became an abdebreak out of all of her fear.
Etymology: ab-from, away de- off break- stop
Genustretch
Created by: dimercurio
Pronunciation: jen-yoo-stretch
Sentence: Saw that genustretch there. Does my driving scare you that much?
Etymology: Genu (Latin for knee) + stretch, based off of "genuflect" (Latin "to bend the knee", a word used to describe kneeling in a church)
Brakawish
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: brake-uh-wish
Sentence: As they approached the traffic jam far too rapidly, Brian's father could only brakawish.
Etymology: brake, make a wish
