Verboticism: Crappantsing
DEFINITION: To be so afraid of failure that you become paralyzed -- unable to move, respond or even say a word.
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Stiffabled
Created by: Antimus
Pronunciation: stiff-abled
Sentence: She looked at him in such a way, he became so stiffabled that he fell off his chair
Etymology: stiff (as in can't move) and unable, in past tense.
Emotocomitosis
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: eemoto-comit-osis
Sentence: Wracked with emotocomitosis, he pushed out his arms to shake hands before instantly drawing it back
Etymology: emoto - connected to matters emotional; comitosis - in a frozen, lifeless state
Incompetrify
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: In-com-pet-triff-fy
Sentence: Bob, a soft-spoken geologist, always became incompetrified whenever he had to give a speech in public.
Etymology: Incompetent+petrify. Incompetent: unable to do something well. Petrify: to turn to stone.
Paralump
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: para.lump
Sentence: "So, what did he do when she finally spoke to him?" - "Well, you know him, he's a paralump, stood there like a statue."
Etymology: paralyse+lump
Freezeframed
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: frEEze-frAmed
Sentence: The professor of David's Physics class got an inside tip that David has stolen the upcoming exam. When the professor confronted him, David just sat freezeframed, not being able to speak in his defense.
Etymology: freeze, as in motionless/ frame, as in catching one moment of time./ framed, being set up using false evidence.
Fauxpause
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: fo-pawz
Sentence: During the job interview, when Bob was asked his name, he suddenly became striken with a severe case of fauxpause, and was only able to produce an unintelligible high-pitched squeak.
Etymology: faux pas, pause
Discoblobulated
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: disk oh blob ewe lay ted
Sentence: He was so discoblobulated when the woman of his dreams asked him to dance that he went totally rigid. Well, 98% rigid.
Etymology: discombobulated, disco, blob
Flatatonic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: flat a ton ik
Sentence: When Star Trek geek Jaune Yellowhead pushed his other Star Trek geek friend, Ginger Carrotop, to ask the new girl out, Ginger went into a flatatonic state. The new girl with the magenta hair, Pinky Purple, was so cute that Ginger was speechless. Apparently love is colorblind and the phasers were on stunned that day.
Etymology: Flat (having lost effervescence;completely or partially deflated) & Catatonic (a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods
Verbrozen
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: ver-brO-zen
Sentence: After playing verbotomy so much, his exotic vocabulary became a crutch. And when his co-workers demanded that he speak in plain English, he was simply verbrozen.
Etymology: verb+frozen
Angstladen
Created by: Ecke21
Pronunciation: AngSt La den
Sentence: He was so angstladen that all he could do was stare at her.
Etymology: