Verboticisms

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: vibe-russ

Sentence: it started with Allan, who gave it to sue. She passed it on to Derek, who, in turn, gave it to the other Derek. Yep...there was a pretty sour Viberus spreading through the office today.

Etymology: vibe, virus

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Caustic vibrosis? - petaj, 2007-07-20: 05:18:00

Wow - a double-derek office. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 09:01:00

One of the Dereks needs a nickname, like "Trey". - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:45:00

he already has one...he's 'the other Derek' - rikboyee, 2007-07-20: 19:05:00

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Created by: kabloozie

Pronunciation: die-a-re-tor-ick

Sentence: Since her divorce, I've been avoiding her - I'm so sick of her diarrhetoric.

Etymology: diarrhea + rhetoric

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Created by: ChristopherAndersen

Pronunciation: flitch

Sentence: Don't flitch your mom's hostility on me!

Etymology: from "flip" (or maybe "flick"?) and "bitch" (or maybe "pitch"?). Also can be used to describe the flicking, dismissive hand gesture made when trasferring negative energy to others.

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Created by: kimmy

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Created by: darkheart786

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Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: funk-dump

Sentence: He dismissed his wife's unrelenting sarcasm and judgemental comments as just a funkdump. Afterall, they had just come from his mother's house.

Etymology: "funk" as in the emotional baggage and "dump" as to unload it onto someone else (also derived from personal mom-in-law experience)

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COMMENTS:

Nice word! At first glance I thought it was fuppeduck. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 09:14:00

A clever buffalo wing place might get some mileage out of a spicy serving of fuppeduck. - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:42:00

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Tranz-furr-vent

Sentence: I was pretty sure she was feeling transfervent when she replied my "hello" with "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I PAID MY TAXES!"

Etymology: Transfer (to move from one thing to another) + fervent (having emotion or passion)

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Created by: scrawlspacer

Pronunciation: DEH fur kayt

Sentence: I really need to quit my job. My boss is so bitchy I wind up defercating on my boyfriend.* You have to watch out for the silent types. Sometimes they do nothing but defercate.* I wish I weren't the first person Mary sees every day when she comes in. Why can't she find someone else to listen to her defercate?

Etymology: defer + defecate (in the figurative sense, as in "to dump" (intr.) or "to dump something [on someone]" (tr.)

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Created by: irminem

Pronunciation: com-pa-tri-bute

Sentence: People who are not independent thinkers, always compatribute with thise they encounter on a daily basis.

Etymology: "comp" from "compile"; "pa" from "passion" and "tribute" from "distribute"

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Created by: urbanwookie

Pronunciation: ree-sigh-kl

Sentence: Frank felt sure Jodie was repsychling her cat's negativity....

Etymology: recycle + psyche = repsychle

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