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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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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
Jiltidluv
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: Jill - tid - love
Sentence: Although he was positive his wife was having an affair, he chose to ignore his feelings of jiltidluv and live in denial.
Etymology: Jilted (to reject or abandon) + Love
Enamorage
Created by: renzeb
Pronunciation: Ee-na-mohr-ij
Sentence:
Etymology: Enamor + Rage
Deniattack
Created by: brandie
Pronunciation: dee-neye-attack
Sentence: When I found him in bed with someone else, I started screaming and then had a deniattack.
Etymology: Denial attack
Freakingout
Created by: lipstickpowdernpaint
Pronunciation: Free-kin-out
Sentence: I am completely like freakingout!
Etymology:
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
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
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