Verboticisms

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: hobodad

Pronunciation: scorn-abration

Sentence: the occasion of his birthday demanded some serious scornabration

Etymology: scorn/celebration

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: josje

Pronunciation: on purpose

Sentence: I dit it not onpurpose

Etymology: purpose as in deliberate.

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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: 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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