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'I don't think that I can take it!'

DEFINITION: n., The deep feeling of despair, pain, and swelling need for revenge, which occurs when someone thoughtlessly trashes one of your pet projects. v., To cry out at the injustice of it all, especially if it is someone else's fault.

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Neeblamme

Created by: sean30

Pronunciation: Nee-Blame-Me

Sentence: I didnt do anything wrong, so Neeblamme!!

Etymology: Nee - No/Dont, Blame - to point finger at another, Me - You

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COMMENTS:

Nema Problema! (my 'old country' ancestors who spoke borken English came up with 'nema problema') Their English-ized way of saying no problem. So your "neeblamme" brought back wonderful memories of my grandmother and her friends. Nice blend! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 16:53:00

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Pursurity

Created by: ElCappa

Pronunciation: Purse-urity.

Sentence: A sense of pursurity came over me as I watched the construction worker tear down my treehouse. I was pursurious at the thought that a human could dash another man's labours into the ground.

Etymology: Pursuit - A quest or undertaking. Pursue - Chase (for vengeance) Furiosity - Vengeful rage

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Recipatrocity

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: reh/si/pa/traw/sitee

Sentence: "All the sweet green icing flowing down" she wailed. "no matter that you look like Harry Potter, I demand recipatrocity" " "Also you'll have to pay for drycleaning because the green icing turned my yellow cotton dress blue."

Etymology: recipe + atrocity + reciprocity

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COMMENTS:

Excellent choice of three words then so cleverly blended! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:15:00

great word and I don't even know Pat - galwaywegian, 2008-02-06: 07:43:00

Love the sentence; great word blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:42:00

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Victimdictive

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: vik dim dik tiv

Sentence: Betty felt understandably victimdictive because the regrettable MacArthur Park incident gave a whole new meaning to the phrase "cake batter".

Etymology: victim (an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance) & vindictive (revengeful)

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COMMENTS:

Nice strong verboticism that nailed the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:17:00

very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-06: 11:52:00

good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-06: 16:51:00

Cheers,all! Nosila - Nosila, 2008-02-06: 18:59:00

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Piqueccupy

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: pee-KYUH- pahy

Sentence: Despite her piqueccupy when her pet project to bake the biggest "kanga" pie in the land was scabotaged, Roxie, although dreampeeved, immediately sought rootaliation. ...............Oh, forgive me Skippy!

Etymology: PIQUECCUPY: "pique": the feeling of hurt, vexation or resentment & "occupy": to busy or engage or employ the mind, energy, attention. SCABOTAGE: sabotaged by strikebreaking, non-unionized, labour.

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COMMENTS:

So many excellent verboticisms. Wow! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 07:13:00

love rootaliation - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-06: 11:49:00

nicenice - purpleman, 2008-02-06: 20:01:00

I like scabotage, too. - Tigger, 2008-02-07: 01:09:00

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Grievenge

Created by: logarithm

Pronunciation: grih-vehnj

Sentence: Jean decided to take her grievengeful blog down today when she realised that she actually overreacted to the entire situation.

Etymology: 1) Grievance: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation. 2) Revenge: action taken in return for an injury or offense.

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COMMENTS:

Jean's grievengeful blog has been taken down today by the administrator after much complaint received from the readers and subjects in her blog. - logarithm, 2008-11-25: 02:17:00

Whoops! Is there a way we can delete wrong comments? - logarithm, 2008-11-25: 02:21:00

metrohumanx I don't think so. My comments pop up in the strangest places.... - metrohumanx, 2008-11-25: 10:05:00

Hahah... I noticed that too... :-) - logarithm, 2008-11-25: 18:35:00

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Recipatrocity

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: reh/si/pa/traw/sitee

Sentence: "All the sweet green icing flowing down" she wailed. "no matter that you look like Harry Potter, I demand recipatrocity" " "Also you'll have to pay for drycleaning because the green icing turned my yellow cotton dress blue."

Etymology: recipe + atrocity + reciprocity

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petaj Is that her father? She might go for recipatricidity - petaj, 2008-11-25: 06:44:00

great suggestion petaj - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-25: 11:09:00

Kitchen chemistry to cook up a neat word that very much captures the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-11-25: 11:45:00

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Mccarthuryism

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mik karth uree izm

Sentence: Susan's despair at having her cake left out in the rain enflamed her animosity towards Jimmy and in a spurt of mcarthuryism, she vowed never to make a cake for him again. From now on, all he would get would be cow pies.

Etymology: MacArthur (Park, as in the lyrics to this song...a park in Los Angeles named after Douglas MacArthur) & McCarthyism (unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty, named after Joseph McCarthy,United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957))

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Projectdecry

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: pro/ject/dee/cry

Sentence: All he could do was projectdecry when his mother came to visit and carefully stored away all his lego pieces that had formerly been a perfectly replicated Mount Everest.

Etymology: project + decry + objectify

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COMMENTS:

Interesting choice of words to blend! bit of a tongue twister when you try to say it three times real fast! Unique! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-06: 16:44:00

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Ruinrage

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: roon-raje

Sentence: Andy was beside himself with ruinrage. Just as his toothpick model of the Eiffel Tower was almost complete, his neighbor burst into the den and knocked over the card table it rested on. Thousands of hours of work and 85,000,000 toothpicks flew around the room. As if by instinct, Andy went for his throat.

Etymology: Ruin (an irrecoverable state of devastation) + Rage (is a mental state that is one extreme of the intensity spectrum of anger)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-02-06: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Dougalistic. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James

libertybelle libertybelle - 2008-02-06: 12:36:00
perfect visual with the drawing for today!!And i understand that old song a little better, too!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-02-06: 13:12:00
Yes, the sweet green icing is flowing down... Oh no!!!!!! ~ James

silveryaspen - 2008-02-06: 16:05:00
The face and fists were an excellent portrayal of her anger and frustration! I tried to match that drama in your caricature with the words in my sentence. Very inspiring!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-02-07: 03:25:00
And I will never have that recipe again! Thank you silveryaspen! ~ James

silveryaspen - 2008-11-25: 11:53:00
So many great creates every day by such excellent wordsmiths, that I have trouble voting because it's hard to limit my choice for best to just two! I'm also amazed at all the new creations for the temporary re-run of old definitions! Almost proves everything is better the second time around!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-04-26: 00:06:00
Today's definition was suggested by Dougalistic. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James