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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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Lacrelation
Created by: larar
Pronunciation: lack ruh lation
Sentence:
Etymology: lacremal fluid -tears + elation
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!"
Trystual
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: trist-u-al
Sentence: Laura's trystual relationship was becoming more exciting than the real one she had with her husband, and she began to spend more and more time online. Her husband began to suspect that she might be having a virtual affair the night she called and said she'd be working late and wouldn't be home for supper, especially because she worked from home and the call came from her upstairs office.
Etymology: tryst: an agreement between lovers to meet at a certain place or time + virtual: existing in essence though not in fact
Cuckoolduphoria
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: kuk-ohld-u-fore-eea
Sentence: As Hilary watched bill leave for the office with a box of havan's finest the old familiar cuckooluphoria rose in her belly.
Etymology: cuckold - the victim of sexual betrayal by a spourse. euphoria - an intense emotional feeling, usually postitive.
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COMMENTS:
Hillilarious! - wordmeister, 2007-06-01: 14:05:00
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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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Confloved
Created by: kalieS
Pronunciation: Con-FLUH-VD
Sentence: As he caught his lover with another man, he became very confloved.
Etymology: Confused + Love = and confusion in love
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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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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Flirtualist
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: flir-two-list
Sentence: Franny was quite the flirtualist with Frank until Fa´moused found out.
Etymology: Flirt-To make playfully romantic overtures. Part of Virtual and also in part of Dual...Having a double character or purpose.
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COMMENTS:
It sounds more like flirt + virtual, which is probably part of the charm. :) - Discoveria, 2012-09-29: 12:41:00
Thank you~ You got it! It sure is... ;) - abrakadeborah, 2012-12-06: 14:38:00
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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