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DEFINITION: n. Anxiety caused by fear that one's body odor may offend others; often exacerbated when required to remove heavy sweaters, or footwear.v. To worry about the way you smell.
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Pheretfulness
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: fer-et-ful-ness
Sentence: Until the inverntion of deoderant, athletes and pubescents alike carried with them (literally) a looming pheretfulness that also inspired the development of ugg boots.
Etymology: from pheromones and fretfulness
Smelancholia
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: smel-an-col-lee-a
Sentence: Michael suffered from severe smelancholia. And in an effort to mask his real or imagined malodours, he would always wear long sleeve shirts, two or three sweaters, and rubbers boots. While this did relieve the psychological symptoms, it had a rather unfortunate physical manifestation.
Etymology: smell + melancholia
Stenchion
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sten-chen
Sentence: Mark was laying on the gurney in the emergency room after his injury and his stenchion level began to rise when he realized that he was still wearing his lucky underwear that he hadn't changed since the beginning of the season. Now his mother would find out about it. She had warned him. It didn't matter that he had two gold gloves and an MVP, what would the doctor think about him?
Etymology: stench: strong, foul odor + tension: mental, emotional or nervous strain -- baseball players are notorious for being highly superstitious and will regard certain articles of clothing as being "lucky." They have been known to go for weeks without taking off socks, charms, underwear, etc. as long as they're hitting well.
Stinkytoesis
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: stinky/toe/sis
Sentence: Barb's acute stinkytoesis caused her to break out in hives whenever she encountered a display of flip flops. She had to order all of her footwear online.
Etymology: stinky toes + psychosis
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COMMENTS:
gymmy choos i suppose - galwaywegian, 2007-04-26: 06:18:00
hehehe. this one made me giggle. - playdohheart, 2007-04-26: 08:41:00
good one jabber! - toadstool57, 2007-04-26: 09:13:00
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Whiffsteria
Created by: jonzerofourteen
Pronunciation: wif-ster-ee-uh
Sentence: Tom usually suffered terribly from whiffsteria. His anxiety about people smelling his body odor forced him to seek therapy. And what a change! Thanks to his therapist, he still stunk to high heaven, but he didn't worry about it anymore. His whiffsteria was cured.
Etymology: whiff (trace of odor or smell) + hysteria (outburst of emotion or fear)
Instinktiveness
Created by: Noble
Pronunciation: in-stink-tive-ness
Sentence: When you just know, without actually taking your shoes off, that there will indeed be an unpleasant smell...
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-04: 10:42:00
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Aromaphobia
Created by: wurdless
Pronunciation: a-rom-A-fo-be-a
Sentence: Here aromaphobia was so extreme she was afraid to go outside and smell the flowers
Etymology: aroma +phobia
Toejambrosia
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: toe\jam-ˈbrō-zh(ē-)ə\
Sentence: A faint whiff! of toejambrosia puffed like a delicate cloud from Marylou's Pink Tony Lama's as she quickly yanked them off and lassoed her legs around her cowboy Jake. Yee-Hah!
Etymology: Combination of Toe jam and ambrosia-the ointment or perfume of the gods
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COMMENTS:
Love it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-04: 06:41:00
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Odorboding
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: ode-or-bode-ing
Sentence: Hippies have no sense of odorboding.
Etymology: odor + foreboding
Hodour
Created by: patb
Pronunciation: ho pdour
Sentence: Katie's hodour was so strong that she imagined that she smelled like a ho after spending the afternoon with her boyfriend. The weird thing is that it was just her imagination.
Etymology: ho odour
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Today's definition was suggested by magenta.
Thank you magenta! ~ James
Vonnegut Week's top Verbotomist, Rikboyee, reveals his secret creative strategy! Read The Verobotomy Interview: Rikboyee on the Verbotomy Blog.
Jabberwocky - 2007-04-26: 10:59:00
I really enjoyed reading the Rikboyee interview. Perhaps you could choose random verbotomists to interview from time to time. It adds yet another dimension to an already fabulous game.
Hey Jabberwocky, Excellent idea! Are you, perchance, offering yourself for a splinterview? (Note: Splinterview is word created by Rikboyee to describe the way I spliced together our email exchange to create the "interview" for the blog.) I would love to splinterview the winner each week, and I see you are very near the top of the list... I have also heard rumours, although it is not official yet, that the winner this week will be awarded a Verbotomy Cup (See the sneak preview here) imprinted with the Author's own Verboticism. ~ James
Jabberwocky - 2007-04-26: 14:20:00
While it would be a frabjous (blend of fair, fabulous and joyous, taken from the Lewis Carroll poem about the Jabberwocky)honour to be splinterviewed, I have been close many weeks but have a difficult time maintaining my stamina. I suspect the winner this week will be Petaj who has put in some superlative words. There are also several dark horses moving up as well, along with the indomitable Stevenson0. The cup is tempting though - great idea
OOh that cup looks great. I hope I can hold on to my lead with those dark horses closing in.
Mustang - 2008-07-03: 06:14:00
Psychosis....good one. gmta?
Not to be THAT guy but shouldn\'t the first line be \"You must BE so hot in those boots\"?
Today's definition was suggested by magenta. Thank you magenta. ~ James