Verboticisms

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: PEE-ter-pahn-DE-MO-knee-yum

Sentence: As George saw the silver hairs slowly overtake his once raven colored head, he went into a sort of peterpandemonium -an unsighlty display involving a bottle of Grecian Formula, a vapid 20 something girlfirend and digging his old Member's Only jacket out of the attic.

Etymology: Peter Pan + Pandemonium

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COMMENTS:

Funny. - hyperborean, 2012-10-17: 23:39:00

Funny story to a really good word - DrWebsterIII, 2012-10-26: 14:33:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: yooth les

Sentence: Doctor Payne broke the sad news to Theo that his mind was starting to reverse itself and go from adult to child again. He would soon go from youthless to useless and that prospect was sadder than any physical disability she could have diagnosed for him.

Etymology: Youth (the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person) & Less (comparative of little;used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs)

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: yooth-duh-kay

Sentence: Grandpa was suffering from youthdecay, which was causing a severe case of glumdisease

Etymology: youth, decay, tooth decay

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COMMENTS:

That can have nasty complications with longperiodontitis. - petaj, 2007-06-21: 03:50:00

A cavortee is fairly unlikely, i suppose - galwaywegian, 2007-06-21: 06:16:00

No doubt he'd eventually develop gingivigoritis. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 08:05:00

Not if he uses youthwash. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 09:43:00

maybe an orthodontryst with some dental floosie would help - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 10:42:00

Sounds like orally good time. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:13:00

(insert oral roberts joke here). - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 11:24:00

Very well. Grandpa had to settle for oral, because he left his roberts at home. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 20:13:00

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Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: inn-fell-duh

Sentence: Becoming an infelder has stealthily snuck up on me while I wasn't looking. I can remember my childhood like it was yesterday. Actually, I could have swore that only yesterday they put a bib on me at lunch.

Etymology: Infant + Elder = Infelder

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree jew ven ack erred

Sentence: when he had wished for the body of a much younger man, he had hoped he'd be able to control his dribbling a little better. He was rejuvenackered, he shouldn't have gone to the nightclub in the first place and it was going to take him the best part of what remained of the night to get these damn leather trousers off.

Etymology: rejuvenation, knackered.

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COMMENTS:

Got my vote before the sentence was even there. I can use this one, it's great to say out loud. - petaj, 2007-06-21: 05:48:00

great definition - he was probably hoping for rejuvenknockhered - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 11:09:00

Yes! - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:09:00

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: jerry/a/triks

Sentence: Geriatricks is a miserable joke played on people in the prime of life

Etymology: geriatrics + tricks

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Nap-pee-dayz

Sentence: Bob's wish to be young again had finally come true. Having been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease he could no longer fend for himself and had reverted back to having a mental age of three. He was certainly back in his nappydays!

Etymology: Nappy(a piece of absorbant material wrapped around babies to absorb bodily functions)ORIGIN abb.Napkin + Days = Nappydays. See also Happydays. A comedy following a group of teenagers growing up in the 1950's, when their lives where full of fun and being young thought nothing could ever go wrong in life.

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COMMENTS:

funny, he became a fonz de leon - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:24:00

Isn't this a sad definition? Good word, TJayzz. - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 21:44:00

Very clever. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-15: 06:03:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dee/age/er/ate

Sentence: The alzheimer's disease caused his brain to deagerate at a rate much quicker than his family had anticipated.

Etymology: DEAGERATE - verb - from DE (added to verbs to imply reversal) + AGE + DEGENERATE (to diminish in quality)

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Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: reh - ver - rayzh

Sentence: The reverage was worse than anyone's ever seen. His teeth fell out and it was the last of his pork diet.

Etymology: reverse + age + leverage

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: pee-tur-pangst

Sentence: The surgery went well - he looked like a 20-year old again. However, he began agedecrying and a wave of Peterpangst washed over him when he was rejected for the senior citizens' discount at Walmart.

Etymology: Peter Pan, angst

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COMMENTS:

perhaps he shouldn't have tinkerbelled with his looks - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 10:44:00

Well, he Hooked up with Wendy, who was much younger. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 12:06:00

yes I hear she was a Darling - he probably thought he would neverland her - porsche, 2007-06-21: 12:10:00

He heard the clock ticking and had to make his move. - Stevenson0, 2007-06-21: 12:18:00

he nearly got his croc cleaned in that fight - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 12:24:00

A big hand for the croc! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 13:14:00

Gotta hand it to you... I liked this one. - texmom, 2007-06-23: 23:40:00

Oh... Peter Pan! LOL you can imagine what I thought. - texmom, 2007-06-23: 23:41:00

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