Verboticisms

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: vur/brey/shuhn

Sentence: It was another special occasion when Susie celebrated Joey's Birthday with a verbration. Verbration is the all talk, no action, giftless celebration. "Besides", Susie said during her verbration, "it's the good vibrations that count, not the gift."

Etymology: verbalize + celebration

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gives a whole new meaning to "Im picking up good verbrations""She's giving me exitations" - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-06: 16:14:00

that one's for you purple - I hope you like the Beach Boys - hopefully it will get rid of the Moody Blues - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-06: 16:21:00

(Knives in white satin, she's givin' me excitations...) ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 18:34:00

Sure, why not. ;-) - jedijawa, 2007-04-07: 02:50:00

ingenious. - riflesandkids74, 2007-04-08: 11:39:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: bərθdāz

Sentence: Brenda has a mind like a steel trap. She can remember every day of her life in vivid detail. Where other people have an internal clock, she has an internal calendar. She can call up any of her friend*s anniversaries, birthdays or graduation dates. She can tell you the date that each of her siblings each lost each of their baby teeth. What she can*t do is turn any of that memory power into action. As dates roll by she is in an anniversary stupor, a birthdaze, never once getting so much as a card for anyone she knows. She loves the phrase **It*s the thought that counts** because that*s all she ever has.

Etymology: birthday (the annual anniversary of the day on which a person was born, typically treated as an occasion for celebration and present-giving) + daze (unable to think or react properly; stupefy; bewilder)

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: on purpose

Sentence: I dit it not onpurpose

Etymology: purpose as in deliberate.

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Created by: thewiccaman

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He set an animinder for her birthday well in advance.

Etymology: Hybrid word made up from anniversary and reminder.

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: meh - mih - NAK - shuhn

Sentence: Sorry, I knew it was your birthday but meminaction took the better of me.

Etymology: Mem- from memo(ry) In- prefix indicating NOT Action

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: mist GIV ing

Sentence: Laura was anxious because her husband seemed to really be downplaying her upcoming birthday. She suspected that he thought that she wouldn't want attention brought to it, since it was her 40th. But she really wanted all the trappings - the big party, fancy jewelry, and maybe an expensive trip. She figured she deserved the attention! But she was starting to have some missedgivings....

Etymology: missed + misgivings

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COMMENTS:

good word - mrskellyscl, 2009-10-23: 11:56:00

Excellent word! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:42:00

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Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: A-suhnt-mahyn-did

Sentence: Paul had listened carefully to his girlfriend over the last year. He knew her shoe size, favorite color and the designer brand she wanted. He was just too acentminded to pull the trigger on the purchase, so he went with the standby bow around his genitals.

Etymology: A Cent - Absentminded

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Created by: riflesandkids74

Pronunciation: neh-glih-brayt

Sentence: I tried to explain to Carie that i didn't intend to neglibrate her dog's 3rd birthday, but she would no longer have it, and she ran off with Lu-Lu under her arm.

Etymology: neglect and celibrate

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Created by: efreet69

Pronunciation: krass-tur-NA-shun

Sentence: He is so cheap when it comes to gift buying; he shows the ultimate in crassternation.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ann iv app a thee

Sentence: her annivapathy was designed to keep his self esteem within easy stamping distance.

Etymology: anniversary, apathy

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Created by: Sharpedgeshurt

Pronunciation: Negg-leh-jent-teh-mehn-tull

Sentence: Bruce is a negligentimental husband, remembering his loving wife's birthdays and anniversaries while being unwilling to give her even a thoughtless gift for the occassions.

Etymology: negligent (lazily careless) + sentimental (a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling or emotion)

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COMMENTS:

cute! But sad... - wordmeister, 2007-04-08: 10:48:00

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Created by: mhankin

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: prez un tay shunnn

Sentence: It wasn't the anniversary presentashun that bothered him, it was the look in her eye when she told him "it's the thought that counts"

Etymology: presentation, shun

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COMMENTS:

What a celebrashun! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:44:00

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Created by: timmy

Pronunciation: Ya yes

Sentence: Yayes!

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: com-miss-MEM-o-rate

Sentence: Benny comissmemorated my birthday this year by organising a special surprise -- a beautifully wrapped, yet empty box.

Etymology: commemorate (to remember a significant event with a ceremony) + miss (to fail -and also the middle of the word omission) + commiserate (sympathize with - what my girlfriends will do when I tell them about Benny the rat)

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how cruel - Benny is a rat - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-06: 16:09:00

Great word. Ever heard of the (cheap fete classic) game "splat-a-rat"? I'd try it. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 18:12:00

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: an ee ver laze

Sentence: Jane was a complete aniverlaze always avoiding getting anyone anything for any event.

Etymology: from lazy and anniversary.

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Created by: x2talk

Pronunciation: sht-head-criptic

Sentence: Damn dog, you didnt buy anything for her? Thats a shtheadcriptic thing to do.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: am nee vers uh reee

Sentence: Someone had once told him that it was the thought that counted. They had lied. this was one anmeversary that would never be forgotten. The scars would see to that

Etymology: amnesia, anniversary

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Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: theo;rat;i;gift

Sentence: forgetogift or theoretigift - this was not a question.

Etymology: theoretic gift

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Created by: simoneshin

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COMMENTS:

Good potential...give us a sentence/etymology and you'll get more points! - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:45:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: prez sen tens

Sentence: The minute she walked in the door after work, Kelly had the feeling of presentense. The reason was that although she had intended to get Wesley a birthday gift, the truth was she clean forgot about it. She rallied by saying that it was out in her car. She ran out to Walmart and was able to grab him something. He was so willing to believe her that he failed to notice it took her an hour to bring in it from her car.

Etymology: Present (gift) & Tense (uneasy or nervous or anxious) & Wordplay on Present tense (a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking)

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Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: in.diff.uh.re.call.

Sentence: Emily indifferecalled her boyfriend's birthday every year without fail.

Etymology: indifferent + recall

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: nairy annee vers nairy

Sentence: You just knew that after 37 years, the honeymoon was over. In the early years, Peaches and Howard had bought each other elaborate gifts and surprises to mark their wedding anniversaries...exotic trips, a new home, elegant gifts and expensive cameras, perfumes,jewellery, etc. After that long, people start to take each other for granted. Medicines and their side effects to keep symptoms at bay replace romance and passion with menopause,ED,gastro reflux and more frequent potty trips. Now they celebrated a naryanniversnary. Maybe he'd remember to shave that day and maybe she'd cook him a nice supper. They still loved each other, but they didn't remember why. Life just sometimes gets in the way of love...

Etymology: Nary (negative;not in any degree or manner; not at all) & Anniversary (the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it);ie: a wedding)

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: think-eht

Sentence: My husband thought about getting me a trinket for my birthday, but all I ended up getting was a thinket. Perhaps he got fuggitful or forgiftful, because later he got doghousen syndrome.

Etymology: trinket, think

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COMMENTS:

I might actually use this one in real life. - iwasatripwire, 2007-04-06: 13:59:00

Can the sympoms of doghousen syndrome be eased by the sufferer sleeping on the sofa, or indeed in the doghouse? - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 15:20:00

*symptoms - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-06: 15:20:00

I like sympoms better. Pays homage to The Simpsons and celebrates this dohccasion. And "The Couch" brings back such bad memories for my boyfriend that he'd prefer to sleep on my f.u.ton. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 18:30:00

Ignore his f.u.tile excuses. Tell him you want your birthday celebelated. - petaj, 2007-04-06: 19:57:00

Oooo, celebelate is a GREAT word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-07: 06:03:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: neg-li-gift

Sentence: Marsha tried to excuse her negligift by saying "It's the thought that counts," but no one would buy it, especially her son Evan who was turning seven.

Etymology: negligence: a failure to act either willfully or through a lack of concern + gift: present

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Negliexcellence - Nosila, 2009-10-23: 22:44:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: giv-NEEZ-ya

Sentence: Bertrand has a bad case of givenesia, always remembering important dates like Alicia's birthday, their anniversary, Valentines day etc, but never remembering to follow up with a gift.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'give' and 'amnesia'.

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Created by: Jaxies

Pronunciation: /seh-lek-a-doh-mem-wah-ism/

Sentence: "Mandy was in the bathroom crying because of Adam's selecadeumemoirism - their 2 week anniversary and he had failed to get her anything."

Etymology: Select + cadeaux (FR.) + memoir (FR.) + ism

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: distāk

Sentence: When Joan didn’t buy a birthday gift for her mother-in-law she realized that she had made a huge distake.

Etymology: dis (act or speak in a disrespectful way) + mistake (an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong) + take (in baseball; to allow a pitch to go by without attempting to hit the ball)

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Created by: Shreeeeeee

Pronunciation: ca-see-frok

Sentence: I hate scatkcfrolked.

Etymology: & *Q# *Q#&$^#$ *

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Created by: hobodad

Pronunciation: scorn-abration

Sentence: the occasion of his birthday demanded some serious scornabration

Etymology: scorn/celebration

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Created by: playdohheart

Pronunciation: com-MEH-more-ate

Sentence: Bobby couldn't wait to get a wonderful present for their six day anniversary but Susan commehmorated it.

Etymology: commemorate + "meh" (a sound expressing "whatever")

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Ha Ha, I love the "meh" - riflesandkids74, 2007-04-08: 11:38:00

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Created by: Allison

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Barry's incessant whining because Jennifer didn't buy him yet another anniversary gift was causing Jennifer to have another bout of eventualstress like the one she had on his birthday.

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: negg-le-genn-event

Sentence: When you've been negligeneventing too frequently you know that your relationship is going in the toilet fast.

Etymology: negligent + event

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: thort-dis-cownt or, in less civilised areas, fort-dis-caant

Sentence: He would often thoughtdiscount their "anniversary of the day we first kissed", which Marie valued greatly, choosing to reminisce rather than book a table.

Etymology: From the useless proverb "it's the thought that counts" and "discount" suggesting "being cheap". Shame and woe to all thoughtdiscounters- mahahahaha!

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 15:33:00

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Created by: pinwheel

Pronunciation: sir/cum/sent

Sentence: Every year Stephen would circumsent Jane's birthday by pretending he had thought she didn't wish to be reminded of being a year older.

Etymology: circumvent + sent

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˌθiəˈɹikɑl/

Sentence: One can theorecall major events, which often results in lots of head-smacking and an inability to get sympathy from anyone, but it's also possible to theorecall simple things. For example, one might remember to go to the store but end up buying snacks instead of milk and eggs.

Etymology: From theoretical + recall

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: diss-in-dow-ment

Sentence: Jill was underwhelmed with the dissendowment David gave her for her birthday

Etymology: diss, as in to disrespect or shun/ endowment, as in gift

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COMMENTS:

Followed by disembowelment. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 11:02:00

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Created by: ewigkeit

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: Oblivo, l. "to forget" and Vitiosus, l. "faulty, corrupt".

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Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: vay-per-ver-sary

Sentence: Rachel turned Doug's birthday into a vaporversary because, as usual, she got him nothing.

Etymology: portmanteau of "vapor" and "anniversary"

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Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: hawlmarkfateeg

Sentence: I passed the dard store on Father's day but hallmarkfatigue set in and i didn't enter.

Etymology: Hallmark: noun tyrant company that uses guilt to imply that you don't love your friends and relatives unless you buy overpriced cardboard phrases at every conceivable occasion. fatigue - from latin meaning tiredness.

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dont fight the fatigue - suzanne, 2007-04-09: 18:43:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: sent-i/ment/en/sing

Sentence: Yeah - well it's really all about the sentiment not the gift right so I'm sentimentencing your birthday right now - and I did get you that diamondlike stud for your ear once and diamonds are ...like...forever

Etymology: sentiment + sentence

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3 weeks sleeping on the couch is the sentence for sentimencing - petaj, 2007-04-06: 19:37:00

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: no-MEM-oh-rate

Sentence: Andy believed in setting a proper tone of nommemoration early in a relationship. "If you get her flowers on her birthday, she'll expect them all the dang time..." was his philosophy.

Etymology: from the Eskimo "nome", meaning cold, and the slavic "memonik", meaning 'sleep on the couch"

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HA! Love the etymology! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-06: 07:09:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: nuhn-ih-VURRS-uh-ree

Sentence: Alex's birthday was yet another noneiversary, and he cleared out closet space in vain.

Etymology: none + anniversary

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: kwā-zĭp'əth-ē

Sentence: Its not that I don't care about special days. I have quasipathy about the situation. Sure, acknowledgment might be in order, but blathering celebration seems a bit much. (also: quasipathetic)

Etymology: quasi ('To some degree') + pathos ('feeling'... as in sympathy or empathy)

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Created by: Ellemorpheus

Pronunciation: Dis-re-give

Sentence: How could she disregive me like that? Does she even care?

Etymology: Dis-not re-remember give-to give

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: uh o kay sjun

Sentence: Being that Noel's birthday is on Dec.25, no one remembers to get him a birthday present. His uhohccasion is lumped in with the Christmas celebrations and people seldom remember to get him a separate birthday gift.

Etymology: Uh oh (Oops!)(Used to express acknowledgement of a blunder, or mistake) & Occasion (event, milestone,celebration)

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: sell-ah-be-rate

Sentence: Julie would tend to celeberate special occassions by remembering the occassion but forgetting to do anything special which usually led to a fight.

Etymology: celebrate + berate

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COMMENTS:

I like it! Good word!! I love berating people at their celebrations. It keeps them from feeling too good about themselves on their special day!!! Got my vote. - Stevenson0, 2007-04-06: 17:03:00

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: diss + el + eh + brate

Sentence: Hey, I knew it was your anniversary, I just chose to disselebrate it.

Etymology: diss + celebrate

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