Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fāsərk

Sentence: As a member of the class reunion planning committee Diane is fielding quite a few new requests to be ”friends”. She has had to block more people than a halfback as her irritating former classmates faceirk her with the details of their politics and/or boring lives.

Etymology: face (the front part of a person\'s head from the forehead to the chin) irk (irritate; annoy) a play on facebook

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: has/been/stock

Sentence: Jack just couldn't live in the present and became a hasbeenstalk(er). His mother accused him of living in a fairy tale but he assured her that one day he would live happily ever after.

Etymology: has been (behind the times) + stalk (hunt or pursue) + Jack and the Beanstalk

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: re-YUNE-yin-sult

Sentence: Germond loved to go back to his hometown each year to meet up with old classmates, and he'd invariably seek out his former detractors to hammer them with reunionsults and to boast about the great success he'd achieved in his life.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'reunion' and 'insult'.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: people-chase

Sentence: Leanna had faced a number of hurdles along the way. Her computer had crashed when she added the Friendster ap and 6 of her ex-friends from school had blocked her friend requests. But she now had a grand total of 630 'friends' in her social network and felt that her peeplechase had been a huge success.

Etymology: steeplechase (a foot race run on a cross-country course or over a course having obstacles, as ditches, hurdles, or the like, which the runners must clear) + peeps (as in people)

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COMMENTS:

I keep imagining little marshmallow chicks jumping over wicker hurdles when I see this word. - MrDave2176, 2007-10-01: 13:29:00

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Created by: ethan1

Pronunciation: NAHST-annoy

Sentence: Hey, I think that guy getting on the bus works out at our gym. Hope he's not going to be a nostannoy.

Etymology: Nostalgia + annoy

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Created by: DrWebsterIII

Pronunciation: ˈrü 'ˈfās ˈbu̇k

Sentence: Bobby had also ruefacebooked before the reunion, which bolstered his archetypal disdain for some of his former classmates

Etymology: RUE (regret) + Facebook (a social tool to for connection or to reconnect or spy)! Maybe you've heard of it

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: min gull berreeeee

Sentence: these reunions were always the same, the good looking ones were either insufferable show offs or drunkards, leaving the desperate and the mingleberries.

Etymology: mingle, as in social interaction, dingleberry as in a hard piece of poo hanging onto a butt cheek.

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COMMENTS:

mmm, i have a picture in my mind - petaj, 2010-01-29: 05:38:00

You certainly get to the bottom of the issue! - Nosila, 2010-01-29: 10:38:00

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Created by: jimtastic

Pronunciation: on-LINE-en-stalken

Sentence: While onleinenstalken in his underpants on a Saturday night from the computer in his bedroom in his mom’s basement, Jeremy finally found the girl that left the company four years ago on MySpace and sent her a creepy “I miss you” message.

Etymology: A Finnish phrase - now popular in many internet cafes located just below the arctic circle - derived from the English phrase "Online Stalker".

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: cash-u-el-O-cate

Sentence: Mark was bored so he hopped on Google in an attempt to cacheualocate his old high school drug buddies to kill a weekend with. He did manage to bullseyedent one but his MySpace page said he was "Born again" so he was out. Another one Mark managed to interneterrogate had managed to get busted in another state and was serving time. But his last queryquarry was still single and was still living with his parents according to his AdultFriendFinder profile. Interneterrogate: To do deep queries for a specific person on the Internet. Queryquarry: the subject of an interneterrogation. Bullseyedent: Find your queryquarry through interneterrogation.

Etymology: Cache (a store of something) + casual (in the sense of not a deep aquaintance or friend) + locate.

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COMMENTS:

"Queryquarry"- great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-01: 18:09:00

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: flay-gruh-mee-guize, verb; flay-gruh-mee-goe, noun

Sentence: "What a flagramigo," Tiffany thought, "Wasn't he always that way?" Brent had just dissed her royally as he worked his way around the old high school gym. But, she had been prepared for him earlier, when she saw him flagramigizing almost every chick in the room.At least his abuse of her had only been verbal. All night long she had seen him "accidently" bumping into and spilling drinks on those he was attracted to. She was so thankful for the book called "The Beauty of Boundaries" she had just read.

Etymology: As a verb: from flagrant, meaning consipicuously offensive + amigo, Spanish for friend; noun: flagramigo, meaning a person who is a conspicuously offensive "friend."

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What an unusual combination. Hilarious sentence, RW! :) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-03: 09:02:00

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