Verboticisms

Created by: SKK717

Pronunciation: FALL JOY MENT

Sentence: After watching her face after she opened my gift I could the reaction was one of faljoyment.

Etymology: A combination of the words False and enjoyment

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: glee-gilt-fulh-ness

Sentence: Her gleeguiltfulness was so transparent, why the heck would she be so happy to receive a broken vase wrapped in a green garbage bag?

Etymology: gleefulness + guilt (feeling badly for faking the glee)

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: de-lye-er

Sentence: Mabel was an excellent deliar. She clapped enthusiastically at the salad shooter, and smiled appreciatively at the hand-made sweaters. She managed to delie her way through the gift exchange without once saying how much she thought she'd get for them at a yard sale.

Etymology: de(light) mashed to liar

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Created by: Niktionary

Pronunciation: joi-gust

Sentence: When I opened the gift my grandma gave me, I prayed she didn't hear the joygust in my voice.

Etymology: joy+disgust

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: foh hoh hoh

Sentence: She gave a fauxhoho to all and sundry, while secretly vowing that when she got him alone she'd deck his balls with holly.

Etymology: ho ho ho faux

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COMMENTS:

Love it, Merry Christmas, galwaywegian! - Nosila, 2009-12-24: 09:18:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: gift/wink

Sentence: I learned from my mother at a very early age to giftwink when I received clothes from my grandparents instead of a toy. Since then, my giftwinking is as natural and undetectable as my appreciation for a fine present.

Etymology: gift + hoodwink

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COMMENTS:

Excellent word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-20: 16:19:00

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: beem-you-sea-as-um

Sentence: Doris showed bemusiasm as she opened Roger's gift of the Hickory Farms Sausage Sampler; she wondered how her own husband could have forgotten that she was a strict vegan.

Etymology: bemuse + enthusiasm

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Created by: monkeywithamonocle

Pronunciation: Fo-lay-shun

Sentence: To show false elation. Becky was fauxlated with the gift she received. She had never felt such fauxlation in all her life.

Etymology: Faux (false) elation (joy)

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COMMENTS:

Very good! - Mustang, 2008-12-23: 23:56:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: foe-FOR-ya

Sentence: Evangeline was throughly disappointed in the leaf blower that her fiance, Lambert, gave her for Christmas but never one to dampen anyone's spirits she managed the best state of fauxphoria she had ever accomplished.

Etymology: Blend of 'faux' (artificial or imitation; fake) and 'euphoria' (A feeling of great happiness or well-being, commonly exaggerated and not necessarily well founded)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: gift/wink

Sentence: I learned from my mother at a very early age to giftwink when I received clothes from my grandparents instead of a toy. Since then, my giftwinking is as natural and undetectable as my appreciation for a fine present.

Etymology: GIFTWINK - verb - from GIFT + HOODWINK (to deceive, or trick)

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COMMENTS:

luv it! The wink gives it such an appealing and fun flair. That wink that says "I'm just kidding" so nicely. - silveryaspen, 2008-12-23: 10:25:00

fun word....perfect. - mweinmann, 2008-12-23: 23:27:00

Top word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-12-23: 23:48:00

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