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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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Falothin
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Fa-lo-thin
Sentence: They are all fault looking en thinking wrong
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)
Survego
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: serv-e-go
Sentence: Jill relied upon her survego to decide how to feel about herself.
Etymology: survey + ego
Peertropism
Created by: thejugglerseth
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She suffered from the worst case of peertropism that anyone had ever seen, she could not even put on a shirt without questioning what her friends would think.
Etymology: 'Peer' + 'trop' meaning oriented towards, +'ism' suffix denoting a condition.
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...
Egoutsource
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ee-gout-source
Sentence: She's always fishing for compliments, I wish she didn't feel the need to constantly egoutsource.
Etymology: ego + outsource
Egosternelisation
Created by: SoldParadise
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Maria is a very egoesternelised person. Your Egosternelisation gets on my nervs...
Etymology: Ego + Externelisation
Insecuridation
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: in-se-KYUR-i-DAY-shun
Sentence: Though lovely, it's clear the three woen in today's graphic suffer from insecuridation.
Etymology: from "insecurity" and "validation"
Joneskeepping
Created by: Madamemojo
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
That's brilliant. Maybe not 100% relevant to the definition, but a fantastic word. I may use it sometime. - ErWenn, 2007-01-11: 20:09:00
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Whimsecure
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: wim se cure i tee
Sentence: Everything and everybody seemed to affect Gabe's opinion of himself - he was the model of whimsecurity.
Etymology: whim + security
