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DEFINITION: n. A person who habitually looks for love in the all the wrong places and wonders why it always turns out wrong. v. To look for love in the wrong places.
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Proflidate
Created by: Negatrev
Pronunciation: Proff-lee-date
Sentence: Dave will never find love while he continues to be proflidate. Sharon realized that proflidating was getting her nowhere.
Etymology: From dating (To go on a date or dates with) and profligate (adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women") AND (noun. someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently or a wasteful person)
Roameo
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: rome-ee-oh
Sentence: He was getting lots of action, but couldn't find a nice girl to settle down with him. Could it be he was a roameo? He still hoped to hear wedding bells when he took that thirteenth step at Sex Addicts Anonymous.
Etymology: Romeo (Shakespeare's doomed lover) + roam (to go from place to place without purpose or direction.)
Romanthick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: row man ts ihk
Sentence: Henry o' Tosis was such a romanthick, he couldn't score at a wallpaperer's convention. His chat-up lines had filled many emergency rooms with suspected vomiting epidemics. His lack of success with the fairer sex was always a mystery and a torment to his mother, with whom he lived. She would often scold him angrily, while swiping wildly about the room with her white stick.
Etymology: romantic , thick as in stupid
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COMMENTS:
poor Henry - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-11: 10:41:00
sticking in through romanthin and romanthick! Love the play on Henry for Hal O' Tosis. Kudos for being most crafty! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 12:08:00
the wallpaper convention is certainly thick with sticky romance I bet! - mweinmann, 2009-02-12: 09:13:00
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Libidohno
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: li/bee/doe/oe/no
Sentence: Once again Sally was a victim of libidohno when she was lead by her errant hormones to a singles bar for transvestites.(not that there's anything wrong with that)
Etymology: libido + "oh no"
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COMMENTS:
being lead, her errant hormones were heavy metal? - readerwriter, 2009-02-11: 10:25:00
reminds me of the farside cartoons - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 13:38:00
Dunno which is worse...errant hormones or truant hormones. Eggzellunt word. - Mustang, 2009-02-11: 22:11:00
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Wookinpanub
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: WUh-KIN-PA-NUH-B
Sentence: "Wookin' pa nub in all da wong pwaces, wookinpanub..."
Etymology: Eddy, the brother of that guy on Chapelle's Show.
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COMMENTS:
Sounds also like Buckwheat (Eddie Murphy) singing "Baby Nub" on the old Saturday Night Live Shows... - Nosila, 2009-02-14: 23:22:00
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Halholetroll
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: HAL HOLE TROLE
Sentence: Ever since she and Hal broke up she's got that void to fill...so where else can you go to fill it other than the same kind of hellhole...Hal's favourite watering hole. When she gets that look in her eyes, you can tell she's doing the Halholetroll.
Etymology: HAL: a man's name HELLHOLE: terrible place WATERING HOLE: slang for drinking place TROLL: slang for looking for a member of the opposite sex by putting out bait and waiting for someone to show interest
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COMMENTS:
Gives a whole new meaning to holesome! etymology fits 'wrong places' to a T! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:31:00
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Romanthick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: row man thik
Sentence: The romanthick in him knew he would finally meeet his queen as soon as he landed in Africa, maybe even before he got to collect his lottery winnings there!
Etymology: romantic, thick
Romanthick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: row man th ik
Sentence: his romanthick streak left him with a broken heart, two missing teeth and a black eye
Etymology: romantic, thick
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COMMENTS:
desthpicable!love it - Nosila, 2010-08-25: 22:07:00
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Paramooer
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: para moo er
Sentence: Elsie was just in the mooed to find a new paramooer. So she went with her bff, Bessie to a meat market...you know the kind of place we mean. Where the goods were well hung, the cowcktails affordabull and there was poll dancing. Their only prospects were a couple of shorthorns who were both Taurus and could be herd from far away. As usual the girls struck out, because the rodeo was in town and the beefcake drank elsewhere.
Etymology: Paramour (a woman's lover;a woman who cohabits with an important man) & Mooer (a cow, who moos)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant! - galwaywegian, 2010-08-25: 04:28:00
I am glad it mooved you! - Nosila, 2010-08-26: 23:48:00
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Smlugg
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: smlug
Sentence: Shelly, was shmlooking for smlug in all the shmlong places!
Etymology: sssmmm...then a Slug - A lump of metal or glass prepared for further processing. In this case, a s-m-lugg is a person that isn't recognised as a good catch.
Comments:
silveryaspen - 2009-02-11: 12:33:00
Really enjoyed today's definition, James. It inspired such a remarkable variety of clever verbotomies,
Thanks Silveryaspen! After reading the words today, it looks like a few of us have fell victim to blunderlust! I guess there is more than a few romanthick libidohnos among us. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by verbotomy. Thank you verbotomy. ~ James