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DEFINITION: v. To find your one, true love but to be unable, or unwilling, to recognize it. n. A perfect match, warts and all.
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Ignoradoration
Created by: taylorgladstone
Pronunciation: Ig-nor-ad-or-a-shon
Sentence: He had no clue that she is his true love...his ignoradoration got in the way.
Etymology: ignore- to refrain from noticing or recognizing adoration- to love and cherish someone
Sentbod
Created by: MandeepSandhu
Pronunciation: (sent-bod)
Sentence: The message that i recieved from you made me feel sentbod because i kept thinking about you.
Etymology: to feel, think
Sowlmate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sow l mayt
Sentence: Porky did not recognize that Bess was his own, true sowlmate because he was sty-mied. When he finally realize what a swine and a boar he had been, he set his heart on bacon her his own.
Etymology: Soulmate (someone for whom you have a deep affinity; lifelong partner) & Sow (female swine)
Bluvness
Created by: fritzgilbert
Pronunciation: B-love-ness
Sentence: Tom was married to his long love Ednis 30 years ago. Today he is now in a state of Bluvness.
Etymology: Bl-as in "blind to" uv-as in "love" Ness-as in the "state of"
Sloughlove
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sluff - luv
Sentence: Inez just would not take Tommy seriously. Tommy knew they were a perfect match in every way but he kept getting the sloughlove from her. Inez could not say what the problem was. She could find nothing wrong with Tommy, liked to spend time with him and felt attracted to him....she just couldn't put her finger on what was wrong.
Etymology: slough off + love + a play on the term "tough love" >>> slough off (discard as undesirable - love (be enamored or in love with)
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COMMENTS:
well-crafted word - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 13:28:00
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Eschewamour
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ess-SHEW-ah-mor
Sentence: Without understanding why, Gilbert once again found himself wanting to withdraw and eschewamour while at the same time enjoying the advances being made by Sadie and actually craving that sort of companionship.
Etymology: Blend of 'eschew' (to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid) and 'amour' (Love making; a love affair)
Sowlmate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: saw el mate
Sentence: All those penned up feelings came out at last, when Sty Stallone and his partner, Piggy Lee, had a banger of a fight. Even though he snorted about her, he knew she was oinkredible. She was his sowlmate and thanks to weee-harmony.com, he had found his hamelot. And swine not? She gave him tenderloins.
Etymology: Sow (an adult female pig or hog) & Solemate (a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner)
Missmark
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: mihss-mahrk
Sentence: Petunia felt she must be missmarked. How could Porky not love her? Was she always to be a missmarkee? Maybe she was missmarketing herself? She thought she had been presenting her authentic sow on ehominy, but she was tired of gritting and boaring it. She was determined to go hog wild and set up an account on Snoutbook.
Etymology: Derived from "to miss the mark," an archery term, i.e. not hitting the bull's eye. Middle English = Sin!
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COMMENTS:
Remarkable! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 13:18:00
Unmisstakeably good...shades of the legendary Miss Piggy! - Nosila, 2009-02-12: 22:13:00
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Amourignorare
Created by: corinnecreason
Pronunciation: ah-mor-ig-nor-are
Sentence: To ignore love, or to be too ignorant to see it.
Etymology: Latin/Italian roots
Missedherright
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: miss der ite
Sentence: Unfortunately her mister right continued on his merry way having missedherright under his (considerable)nose
Etymology: mister right, missed her
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COMMENTS:
lovely - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-12: 13:16:00
Super Duper! luv it! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 13:31:00
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