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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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Eruptamotionalitis
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: erupt/a/motion/al/itis
Sentence: After a month of therapy I was told I had eruptamotionalitis and I was at not fault for feeling that way. I thought to myself"$85 a week for that!?".
Etymology: eruption/to explode, a/an adjoing word letter, emotional/deep feelings, itis/the inflamation of = The swelling up of an emotion until explosion
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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Matrazzic
Created by: gautambarathwaj
Pronunciation: Pronunced as "Maatra-zzic"
Sentence: She was Mattrazzic when her lover saw her with someone else
Etymology: From the Tail word "MAATRAN" which means "SOme one else's" This Word has tamil roots
Cheatesponse
Created by: nbsalomon
Pronunciation: chee-tah-spawn-sss
Sentence: Carl's cheatesponse to Carol's affair with Michael AND Thomas made Carol feel bad.
Etymology: cheat and response
Loverrage
Created by: oralfixation
Pronunciation: lover-rage
Sentence: Michael's loverrage created a stir amongst the crowd that had gathered outside the window.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Not bad for my first attempt! - oralfixation, 2007-06-01: 21:08:00
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Cyberphilanderer
Created by: SnatchRaffle
Pronunciation: sigh-ber-fill-an-dur-er
Sentence: Steve! Are you on craigslist again? I knew you were a cyberphilanderer. What does her web browser have that I don't?
Etymology: Cyber(space) + philanderer = cyberphilanderer
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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Cuckoldrage
Created by: gdread
Pronunciation: KUHK-old-rayj
Sentence: Seeing Gwen in Cleo's arms drove Will into a wild cuckoldrage.
Etymology: guess
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