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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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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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Ragury
Created by: littlestace
Pronunciation: "Rage - uh - ree"
Sentence: I was full of ragury when I found them together.
Etymology: rage + fury
Dysphuriation
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: dis-FYOOR-ee-EY-shuhn
Sentence: Gerald could not contain his dysphuriation, which was clearly harder on him than either Janet or Carl, the landscaper.
Etymology: dysphoria + infuriation
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COMMENTS:
Janet was into whoreticulture. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:55:00
Gerald was a mite angry, but Carl probably has a spray for that. Janet declared she was just being environmentally friendly. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:03:00
Carl was a seedy character, having had affairs with Rose, Daisy, and Lily as well. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 09:19:00
sounds like a thHorny problem - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 12:30:00
Yes, but Gerald rose to the occasion. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 13:54:00
Damn, "rose" had already been used. I'll try again. It wasn't the first time Janet had been deflowered. Gerald fell into a vegetative state, preventing him from getting to the root of the problem. Tree times was fir too many. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 14:05:00
Perhaps Janet felt that Gerald had been spending too much thyme with Rosemary and as he hadn't been wearing his foxglove he had developed a problem with his peonies - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 15:35:00
Whereas Janet's gardenia belt left her feverbush exposed, making Carl's horse cane extremely gladiola, until his stamen peeked out from under his monkshood and he began pollen on his periwinkle. Fertilization was fine, but there was no possumhaw that he could marigold that witch-hazel and become a poppie, carting the orchids around to daisy care. Some called him a pansy, but many problems stemmed from his disinterest in cultivating a family and branching out. He wished everyone would just leaf him alone so he could smoke weed and listen to the Sex Pistils. Maple it was for the best. He'd rather bee with Jasmine, to chestnut on her pod and turn out the nightshade. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 18:35:00
too funny - I'm splitpeaing myself with laughter!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 20:10:00
Clayton, you sure have some stamena for pROSE. Freesia jolly good fellow, and sow say all of us. - petaj, 2007-06-02: 23:34:00
Ha ha! LOVE it! - Clayton, 2007-06-04: 06:18:00
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Insufferation
Created by: livejuicy
Pronunciation: in-suff-er-a-shun
Sentence: When he saw them embrace, he could only exclaim in insufferation - "What's going on?"
Etymology: insufferable + desolation
Janger
Created by: syerraecho
Pronunciation: Jan-ger (sounds like anger with a j)
Sentence: He seethed with janger upon seeing his loved one in his best friends arms.
Etymology: Jealousy + Anger
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COMMENTS:
Good word! Got one of my votes today!! - Stevenson0, 2007-06-01: 15:40:00
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Newlyweb
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: noōlēweb
Sentence: Joyce is a newlywed. Everybody knows how she hates to waste money so nobody was too shocked when she introduced her eHarmony newlyweb on Facebook. How could she have just left her paid-for account lapse without getting full use? Her real world husband isn’t sure how he feels about his virtual counterpart.
Etymology: newlywed (a recently married person) + web (short for World Wide Web)
Trampire
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tram pyre
Sentence: He acted like a vampire in a fit of righteous trampire, his nerves snapped like a tripwire and his brain was going haywire.
Etymology: tramp, ire
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COMMENTS:
There once was a righteous vampire,
his brain went utterly haywire,
When his girlfriend cheated,
he got a bit heated,
and swooned in a fit of trampire. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:54:00
Poor sucker! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 09:06:00
Wasn't that from the Rocky Whoreor Prickture Show? - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 09:43:00
I like this one! - texmom, 2007-06-01: 15:29:00
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Furospicious
Created by: bubbos
Pronunciation: Fu-ro-spi-cious
Sentence: Tom got home early from work today. However, an uneasy feeling of furospicious lingers in Tom's head as he hears Anna's voice moaning from the bedroom upstairs.
Etymology: Furious - extreme anger, often uncontrollable and unmanageable Suspicious - predictable response from hearing moaning upstairs
Flirtual
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Flur-tu-al
Sentence: Miss Slimmy Websurfer was such a flurtual person. Poor Mr. Bonehead Websurfer had no idea how many hours she spent online chatting up other guys.
Etymology: Flirt- To make playfully romantic or sexual overtures. Part of "Virtual"- Simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network: virtual conversations in a chatroom.
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