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DEFINITION: v. To have a favorite article of clothing with which you develop a personal, and even a deeply fulfilling, relationship. n. A much loved article of clothing.
Verboticisms
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Clothophile
Created by: zephris
Pronunciation: [klohth-uh-fahyl]
Sentence: Psychologists have been studying a clothophile in order to understand the latest trends in fashion.
Etymology: (cloths)+(love of - phile): clothophile
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COMMENTS:
- zephris, 2006-12-14: 10:21:00
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Clothesession
Created by: lala54
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I am wearing out my favortive jeans, I have to get over my clothesession of them and start wearing another pair
Etymology: clothing + obsession
Articlemania
Created by: SlRf24
Pronunciation: Just as read :P
Sentence: I have a huge articlemania with this black short dress!
Etymology: Article+Mania
Smatchilism
Created by: bubbliciousbub
Pronunciation: Sem-hatch-ill-ism
Sentence: I was overcome with smatchilism for the beautiful blue shirt.
Etymology:
Vestonan
Created by: iplaytool
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I've got a real vestonan for this silk shirt; it feels so nice and gives me good luck.
Etymology: vesti - clothing onanism - masturbation
Obsessor***
Created by: DaddyNewt
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jimmy obsessor***d his favorite belt.
Etymology: obsess+accesorize
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COMMENTS:
Please note the above verboticism, originally created and posted publicly on December 15, 2006, was modified in order to comply with the legal "demand" from the famous shoe-maker and irrepressible fashionista, Stuart Weitzman!
See letter below....
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February 21, 2012
Re: Unauthorized use of a Stuart Weitzman registered trademark
Dear Mr. James:
Stuart Weitzman is the owner of the federally registered trademark OBSESSORIZE, registration numbers 3,410,733 and 3,281,009 (attached hereto) and other trademarks used on and in connection with Stuart Weitzman's famous shoe and handbag merchandise and retail stores.
Stuart Weitzman has established a worldwide reputation for innovation, quality and style in women's footwear and accessories. Furthermore, Stuart Weitzman has invested considerable sums of money and extensive amounts of time and effort in creating marketing awareness for its trademarks. As a result of these efforts, the Stuart Weitzman trademarks, in addition to the distinctive shoes and handbags designed by Stuart Weitzman, have enjoyed widespread popularity and recognition throughout the world.
Recently, we discovered you are using our trademark OBSESSORIZE in connection with your blog post on, "Verbotomy" (http://www.verbotomy.com/verbottle.php?jargonism_id=1902). Consumers are likely to believe erroneously that your blog is sponsored by, associated with, or related to Stuart Weitzman, a world renowned accessory designer.
On behalf of Stuart Weitzman, we demand that you immediately refrain from and discontinue all use of our OBSESSORIZE trademark and confirm in writing that you have done so by February 23, 2012. We await your immediate response.
Very truly yours,
Barbara Kolsun
Executive Vice President
General Counsel
Stuart Weitzman
50 W. 57th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Tel: 212-287-0704
Fax: 212-287-0708
BarbaraKo@stuartweitzman.com
- verbotomy, 2012-02-23: 13:49:00
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Comments:
Jonno - 2006-12-14: 04:40:00
Hi all! New to this and it's fun, but here's my 3 cents worth... 1. Placing the most voted-for words at the top of the list biases the voting. 2. Words entered earlier are subject to more votes. Could you not take all the entries before voting begins? Or have voting for yesterday's word while today's definitions are open? 3. You should add the part of speech to the definition (verb, noun, etc). I think the celeverer words are the ones which match the definition. 4. Please make these comment boxes a bit bigger! Thanks, Jon.
Hey Jonno, Thanks for your suggestions. They are all good! We are working on way to divide players/words into smaller groups, which will change the way verboticisms are listed, and the way voting happens. Stay tuned... In terms of the "part of speech", we actually had that in earlier, but took it out because people didn't like it. We could add it back... What do you guys think? Thanks for playing! ~ James
ErWenn - 2006-12-14: 12:14:00
I've just joined, and so far, every definition has been for a verb, but most of them lend themselves better to nouns. For example, it's easier to name a disease or condition than it is to give a word that describes succumbing to such a condition. Most of the winning words are nouns, as you can see. I think you should either formally open it up for any part of speech communicating the idea, choose the part of speech for each definition more carefully, or strictly enforce matching the part of speech of the definition.
philip - 2006-12-14: 12:31:00
Nice idea, look forward to playing :) Agree with Jonno on all points, especially the problem that entries made earlier will automatically get more votes...
verbatul - 2006-12-14: 12:35:00
James, the parts of speech is a great idea! It seems that we have a lot of clever people suggesting words so I don't think any creativity will be suffer. In fact, it may inspire more ingenuity. Great game!
I think that we might take a tip from ErWenn keep it formally open to all parts of speech, but then allow players to create variants for specific part of speech (e.g, a verb, a noun, an adj,) and award bonus points for the extra creativity. ~ James
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