Verboticisms

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: nay-bick-er-ly

Sentence: Even Mr. Rodgers would begin to feel neighbickerly if he lived next to the Johnsons. They have tacky lawn ornaments and loud parties. They have several cars that use all the parking spaces and let Fido run through the neighborhood to potty in everyone's pansies. But what really cheesed us off was when they yelled at the kids for going on their lawn to fetch their baseball.

Etymology: neighborly: acting as a friendly neighbor + bicker: petty squabble

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: nay-gresh-un

Sentence: Nancy was so full of neighgression with her neighbor, Ned. For some strange reason...all she ever wanted to do was to ring his neck!

Etymology: Neigh - Part of "Neighbor" - One who lives near or next to another. Gression- Part of "Aggression" - The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.

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Created by: chaiandallthatjazz

Pronunciation: bord er ton tay

Sentence: "Settle down children. I've had enough of this bordertaunte. I'm turning the in-drive movie off. You can watch it when we get home if you behave yourself!"

Etymology: border (part that forms outer edge of something) + taunt (ridicule, mock) + debutante (young [woman] making a formal debut into society)

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great! - elcanyonazo, 2009-02-07: 15:51:00

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: e:mág:on:á:lie:n

Sentence: Relations between Manfred and Tobefrank got so bad, almost unimaginably bad, that the local neighbourhood watch insisted they increase the width of their imaginotline or move to another ghetto.

Etymology: A truce declared between 1-) Imagine: To conceive or form an image in one's own mind. 2-)Maginot line a line of defensive fortifications constructed by the French along their eastern border, extending from Switzerland to Luxembourg, between 1929 and 1936. • [as n. ] (also Maginot line) an impressive but often ineffectual means of protection or defense

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Created by: starwarsgeek8

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Etymology: vice+vicinity

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: nay boor

Sentence: Neighboors were what the Capulets and the Montagues had become. In fact, their quarreling had been going on for quite some time. So long, that no one remebered why they quarrelled any more. Their neighboorly behaviour eventually lead to unforseen tragic events.

Etymology: Neighboor (n) is a mixture of neighbour and boor - rude person.

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: procks-n-m-e

Sentence: My sister and I ceased to be proxenemies in our teens when we moved into a bigger house and got separate bedrooms.

Etymology: proximity (closeness) + enemy (opposite of friend)

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Created by: jmunoz98

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ad-JAIS-en-tangl

Sentence: Ever the aggressive and obnoxious lout Chester would grab any and every opportunity to employ various adjacentangle efforts to antagonize his neighbors, even going so far as to call them graphic names and to throw refuse onto their property.

Etymology: Blend of 'adjacent' (lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring) and 'tangle' (Informal. a conflict; disagreement)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: oh ver fen siv

Sentence: Their overfencive was the only woman made thing visible from space.

Etymology: offensive, over fence

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COMMENTS:

but could you hear it?? - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-05: 11:01:00

great! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-05: 13:05:00

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