Verboticism: Suprisiln
DEFINITION: v. To suddenly discover that your most troublesome personality defect, for which you have been taking medication and/or therapy, is actually your greatest asset. n. A perceived weakness which is actually a strength.
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Benifit
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ben + ih + fit
Sentence: My epilepsy gets me a lot of work in industrial blending applications, so it's turned out to be a benifit.
Etymology: bene + fit (only I spelled it with an "i" instead of the second e, to distinguish it from the original word).
Flawesome
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: flaw-sum
Sentence: when people mistook my nervous tic for well rehearsed break-dancing, it was flawesome
Etymology: flaw, awesome
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COMMENTS:
Good one. - Clayton, 2007-06-25: 21:15:00
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Handycap
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: han dee kap
Sentence: at the Outside the Box employment agency they help change a handicap to a handycap, one person's OCD sufferer is another person's cleaner/office manager/proof reader.
Etymology: handicap, handy
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COMMENTS:
love it - remistram, 2007-06-25: 14:37:00
Voted! - Clayton, 2007-06-25: 21:15:00
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Handycap
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: han-dee-capp
Sentence:
Etymology: handy, handicap
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COMMENTS:
Very apt and capped a good day's verboting. - scrabbelicious, 2009-07-31: 15:22:00
Nice Flo to it! - scrabbelicious, 2009-07-31: 15:24:00
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Traumaze
Created by: kirkaw
Pronunciation: traw-maze
Sentence: When Michael's obnoxious outburst at the Marsha resulted in her quiting the next day, to the delighted of the rest of the office staff, he was simply traumazed at himself.
Etymology: trauma - amazed
Rednose
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdˌnoʊz/
Sentence: Sadly, while the fact that his face and voice were incapable of expressing emotion was an impressive rednose during the poker tournament, he still couldn't get a date.
Etymology: As in Rudolph the reindeer's shiny red nose
Lunatickalltherightboxes
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: loo na tik awl the rite bok ses
Sentence: She managed to lunatickalltherightboxes despite the rather stained resumé
Etymology: lunatic tick all the right boxes
Faultility
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: fawl-TIL-i-tee
Sentence: Madeline's faultility was her incessant nose-blowing. Her husband thought of divorcing her, but she was such an amazing duck call.
Etymology: fault + utility
Emfoible
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: em-foy-bull
Sentence: "Eureklutz!" Ted exclaimed, as he landed that nifty job as a baggage handler. He had become emfoible.
Etymology: employable, foible
