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DEFINITION: n. An extremely intimate, but completely innocent, relationship with an online "partner". v. To be virtually unfaithful while strictly maintaining physical loyalty.
Verboticisms
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Avatarrangement
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: av - ah - tar - ranj - ment
Sentence: Lucy had an avatarrangement with Benjamin; her virtual friend on "My Other World" where her character looked nothing like herself. Because she was having an intimate relationship with her avatar and not her "real" self, she felt innocent and did not understand why her husband was upset.
Etymology: avatar, arrangement
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COMMENTS:
avatariffic word - Nosila, 2009-12-28: 22:19:00
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Cheatatrophy
Created by: franticff
Pronunciation: cheet-A-tro-fee
Sentence: Feist suffered a cheatatrophy late last night while stalkbooking her lover.
Etymology: of French escheoir "befall by chance, happen, devolve," atrophia from Greek,"a wasting away, a waste of time!"
Lovix
Created by: RubyWry
Pronunciation: Luv-ix
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Thats a great word nice going - RubyWry, 2007-06-02: 18:08:00
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Cheatercheaterbangbang
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: chee-tah-chee-tah-bang-bang
Sentence: the detective surveyed the crime scene, and judging by the evidence at hand it looked like the husband had discovered them together and suffered a dramatic bout of cheatercheaterbangbang
Etymology: cheater, bang, chitty chitty bang bang
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COMMENTS:
Was the crime scene the back seat of a car by any chance? - petaj, 2007-06-01: 04:44:00
was he a first off fender? - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 05:58:00
at least they won't have trouble establishing his automotive - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 06:17:00
I suppose any van dyke jokes would be in bad taste. - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 06:33:00
They caught the Love Bug. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:41:00
Ahh the good old days when only cars and cattle were horny and men could wield a crank. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:14:00
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Adultguttery
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: adult-GUT-ery (but variations for different parts of speech are allowed eg. adultergutted)
Sentence: Daniel was prostrate with adultguttery and could only curse himself that he had seen it coming. Afterall, she was a harlotbinger, a harbinger of harlotry.
Etymology: adultery + gutted
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COMMENTS:
isn't the harbinger of harlotry one of the signs of the 'ho'diac - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 03:28:00
or is it a sign that whoremaggedon is upon us...i can never remember. - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 03:30:00
Bawdly speaking, she was also known as the Oracallgirl of Delphi. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 04:51:00
sounds like a real prophetstitute - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 06:18:00
probably whoremoanal - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 06:34:00
That reminds me of a joke... How do you make a hormone? Forget to pay her. (are those groans I hear?) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:39:00
That one always make me giggle'o - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:06:00
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Jealisle
Created by: Megsee
Pronunciation: gel - isle (sounds like while)
Sentence: The sight of her lover crooning a love song into his blackberry made her feel as though she might vomit, though nothing was in her stomach she felt jealisle.
Etymology:
Killherinstinct
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kill-hur-in-stinkt
Sentence: Seeing them together for the first time, she was overcome with killherinstinct. Fortunately, she easily got herself under control, as she had another hot date lined up for the evening.
Etymology: killer instinct, her
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COMMENTS:
lethal! - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 06:31:00
It was fortunate, otherwise there would have been a murdher investigation. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:39:00
If she had first thought to khilim, she could have consoled herself with a beautiful Persian carpet. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:21:00
great word Purple and brilliant comments from all - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 09:30:00
Yes, yes. Best word by a mile. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 13:52:00
As always, well done purple. - Osomatic, 2007-06-01: 16:22:00
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Platonetmet
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: plat ton net met
Sentence: They had gotten together innocently online through their Facebook contacts. What had been a simple exchange had ended up a more intimate relationship. But sexy as it was, they remained faithful to their spouses because their connectedness was platonetmet. It helped that she actually lived in Buenos Aires and he in a small village in India. Though they could not dance in person they could do the tantamount tango! It was only a matter of time before either saved up enough air miles to change their status.
Etymology: Platonic (free from physical desire);Net (Internet) & Met (came together;got to know;got acquainted with)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Clayton. Thank you Clayton! ~ James
Clayton, this definition has prompted some inspired commenting.
Yes! You guys are so funny, I can hardly wait to read the book. ~ James
Clayton - 2007-06-01: 13:56:00
Heh. It seems like we've all been there. Fortunately, it's been several years for me.
I have made a couple of changes today. First, I have changed the way the Verboticisms are displayed so that now it shows the words from every Verbroom. I have also added a "Show All" link which lists all the verboticims of the day on a single page! Secondly I have added a comment tracking system so you can track all your conversations. If these changes cause a problem, let me know! ~ James
Thank you for the show all. I was thinking about the "tag cloud" idea. It would work well on the author pages, where the weighting for each word could be displayed by relative size of font. Then we could check out our best scoring words, and it wouldn't interfere with voting. Tracking conversations is a neat idea too. Are all the comments from every word in the one "track" or would we have to track each one individuall?
Today's definition was suggested by Clayton. Thank you Clayton. ~ James