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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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Odorboding
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: ode-or-bode-ing
Sentence: Hippies have no sense of odorboding.
Etymology: odor + foreboding
Sniffrightened
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: snif - fryt - nd
Sentence: Waldo felt sniffrightened when he was asked to take off his shoes. Had had taken Maggie to a Japanese restaurant and he couldn't remember if he had washed his feet.
Etymology: sniff, fright
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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Stangst
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: stank-st
Sentence: Colin was in a spiral of increasing anxiety. His stangst caused him to never remove an item of clothing, which lead to even more perspiration, causing an even greater stink of body odour and greater levels of stangst.
Etymology: stank + angst
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COMMENTS:
nice. you changed angst subtly. - ohwtepph, 2007-04-26: 06:12:00
No doubt Colin reekgretted his decision to remove his clothes. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-26: 08:11:00
fabulous word - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-26: 10:51:00
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Footophobia
Created by: daisy
Pronunciation: foot-o-fo-bi-ah
Sentence: Sam's footophobia kept him out of the podiatrist's office long enough, he was going to get those corns taken care of come hell or high water.
Etymology:
Appwhiffhensive
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: ap-wiff-hen-siv
Sentence: Pat had always been prone to sweating. Nobody thought he was odourous, and in fact he was no more than any average guy. Still, this didn't help his mental state of mind. He had always been appwhiffhensive about taking his shoes off in other people's houses and he wasn't about to change any time soon.
Etymology: whiff - smell pong; apprehensive - anxious worried
Wiffphobia
Created by: charmed3
Pronunciation:
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Etymology: From the stinking past
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
Detaphobia
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: Deh-tah-pho-bee-ah
Sentence: His detaphobia caused him to pretend he was allergic to the cold in order to avoid taking off his coat.
Etymology: Deta-detach phobia- fear
Fetidread
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: FETT-id-RED
Sentence: Like aroma from cheese it’ll rise in your head- The terror of reeking called FETIDREAD!
Etymology: FETID+DREAD= FETIDREAD.....FETID: having a heavy offensive smell; Middle English, from Latin foetidus, from foetēre to stink.....DREAD: extreme uneasiness in the face of a disagreeable prospect, causing fear or awe, great fear especially in the face of impending evil or embarrasment; Middle English dreden from Old English drǣdan (“‘to fear, caution against’”), aphetic form of ādrǣdan, ondrǣdan (“‘to advise or counsel against’”) from and- "against" + rǣdan "to counsel, advise". Akin to Old High German intrātan "to fear".
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COMMENTS:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/36787804.html - metrohumanx, 2009-11-12: 06:28:00
November 17: The Leonids
Typically the Leonid shower is a weak display, with fewer than a dozen meteors per hour radiating from Leo’s Sickle. But the parent comet, 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, tends to create narrow concentrated streams that can produce brief but prodigious displays. That was the case during the late 1990s, and we might be in for a reprise this year. A predicted pulse of activity on November 17th — with hundreds of meteors per hour — will involve contributions from the comet's spewings in 1102, 1466, and 1533.
- metrohumanx, 2009-11-12: 06:31:00
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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