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DEFINITION: To measure your success, or evaluate your self-worth, based on what other people think.
Verboticisms
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Esteemleeching
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: Ess-team-lee-ching
Sentence: Betty's esteemleaching was the only way she could get the energy to get in front of the camera for her porn shoots.
Etymology: Esteem + leeching
Externation
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: ex-turn-a-shun
Sentence: Before we left the house she externated, "I hope that they like me. Otherwise, I think I'll just die."
Etymology: external + appreciation
Exociation
Created by: Wildcat
Pronunciation: ek-zo-si-a-tion
Sentence: I really wish I could be exociated
Etymology: exo- external (to me) + appreciation
Egother
Created by: vixphilia
Pronunciation: EEE-gOH-ther
Sentence: I don't care about how you look like. Stop egothering yourself, it's cheap.
Etymology: Ego + Other
Imtwentytwobucks
Created by: timmy
Pronunciation: Im twenty two bucks.
Sentence: Imtwentytwobuck
Etymology:
Peerpoint
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: peer-poynt
Sentence: Nigel's reliance on peerpointing was fatally flawed; his inability to recognise that everyone thought he was a twat meant he rated himself far too highly
Etymology: peer (peer group) + point (score)
Flattrometry
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
I like this word - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-11: 13:34:00
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Reputemetrics
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: re-PEWT-MET-RICS
Sentence: Sally is a victim of reputemetrics, spending all her time worrying what her friends think of her.
Etymology: repute (the state of being held in high esteem and honor) + metrics (measurements)
Appeerciated
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: uh/peer/shee/eyt/ed
Sentence: She only said, did and wore what her friends approved of. She felt totally appeerciated.
Etymology: appreciated + peer
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COMMENTS:
I would like to show my appeerciation for this wonderful word, but I want to see what everyone else says... - wordmeister, 2007-01-10: 10:05:00
me too - me too - I was always a sucker for peer pressure (my whosize is very small) - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-10: 10:11:00
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Oneuppish
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: one up ish
Sentence: maralyn was oneupish she always wanted to be better than the other girl.
Etymology: one upmanship...
