Verboticisms

Created by: urbanwookie

Pronunciation: deja-skew

Sentence: John realised the best chance of landing an interview would be to dejaskew some of the less glorious facets of his remume...

Etymology: dejavu -> skew

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ret-ro-flert

Sentence: Though he knew better, Rodney hoped his audacious claim to have changed their marriage date would convince Lou Anne that it was ok for him to retroflirt.

Etymology: Retro - go back in time, flirt - have romantic interludes with women

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: re cal end riff ick ay shun

Sentence: Peter hoped his quick recalendrification would work just long enough for him to step out of range of the ceremonial sword they had bought on their prerecalendrificated honeymoon.

Etymology: recalibrate+Calendar

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: al tar ree er ayshun

Sentence: When Benny married Bertha, he made a slight altarerioration to their marriage date. They had been married overseas, without family present. Instead of November, he recorded it as April. This was just to make sure that their baby, Swen, looked like he was planned. The truth was that Benny had forgotten to go to the drugstore...

Etymology: Altar (a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made;where vows are exchanged in the church at a wedding) & Alteration (the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) & Ulterior (lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)

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Created by: paperhoard

Pronunciation: re-proto-kron-i-kuhl

Sentence: Jim tried to reprotochronicle his life experiences in an effort to locate all the children he fathered.

Etymology: proto - First in time: prototype chronicle - a chronological record of events; a history.

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COMMENTS:

Jim is such a calendork. - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-31: 07:21:00

I'm going to try an tie all my words to Jimbo, they all seem to fit.... - paperhoard, 2007-01-31: 07:25:00

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: lax ee daisy time

Sentence: Franks constant laxidaisytime antics left Freeda not knowing which decade she was in.

Etymology: from lackadaisic and time. Cos lackadaisical is being forgetful and not worrying about it.

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Created by: ArsMajika

Pronunciation: RET-CON-ahr-tis-TREE

Sentence: Douglas is a master of retconartistry. I doubt he even knows his own history anymore.

Etymology: Retcon - Retroactive Continuity; Con Artist - One who lies in order to make situations advantageous to themselves.

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Created by: pseudoking

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Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: cal-o-warp

Sentence: She has been reprimanded several times for callowarping

Etymology: from calender + warp

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: cal-en-der-oh-gay-shun

Sentence: A deft bit of calendarrogation allowed me to have a great party and still be 60 days sober.

Etymology: calendar + arrogation

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