Verboticisms

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: try-gang-yoo-layt

Sentence: He googled every name he could remember, in an effort to trigangulate the whereabouts of his old classmates.

Etymology: triangulate + gang

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COMMENTS:

This is a fantastic word for a slightly different definition. - ErWenn, 2007-10-01: 09:54:00

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: pan/a/see/ya

Sentence: Panaseeya is a common occurence in a middle age crisis.

Etymology: pan (as in Peter)+ see ya + panacea

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: re fren emee

Sentence: When Janet met Brad again at the reunion, she realized he had become a refrenemy. He not only hated her hair and her dress style, (She was sure the invitations stated retro 80's look, so as people could recognize each other) but he also was still an older but more judgmental geek. It was when she caught him making out with Sue (she of the Just Sue Me! fame) that she realized he was just "Desparately Seeking Susan" and not really into the fact that she was Madonna's personal assistant! Loser!

Etymology: Re-friend (a person with whom you are re-acquainted) & Enemy (a hostile individual, not in your support group)

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Created by: kerryb

Pronunciation: peer-gur-ji-teyt

Sentence: I found it strange that I had wanted to peergurgitate with so many facebook members.

Etymology: peer-a familiar person or colleague regurgitate-to revisit and expel something that is unwanted.

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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: 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: hellohime

Pronunciation: pas'hole

Sentence: You got a phone call from John Smith? What did that pasthole want?

Etymology: a blend of "past" and "@55hole", someone from your past that you never really cared for but for somereason, later in life, they seek you out for either friendship or because they need something from you.

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Truly humorous ! - DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-01: 17:34:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: my-face-frend

Sentence: It was a sad day when Greg Arious realised that he'd gone way too far online networking. He had 656 contacts, most of whom were myfacefriends. It was time unfriend them.

Etymology: Myspace & Facebook social networking sites where people collect "friends" and renew acquaintances with folks they haven't seen or heard for years.

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COMMENTS:

How does one unfriend them?? - Nosila, 2010-01-29: 10:39:00

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Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: acq - "HEY MAN" - tance

Sentence: When Raul went back to his 30yr reunion it was filled with all sorts of acqheymantances, afterwards he was even calling his wife "buddy" and his son "chief".

Etymology: Acquaintance - "Hey Man" which is a standard greeting for those you know you should know but can't remember their names (see also dude, chief, buddy, guy, boss, you!)

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