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'Whoa! Whoa! I thought we were breaking up?'

DEFINITION: v. To engage in intimate activities with your "ex", even when you know that you will never, ever, get back together again. n. Intimate activities undertaken with an ex-lover

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Condomnundrum

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: con/dum/nun/drum

Sentence: To .... or not to .... that is the condomnundrum

Etymology: condom + conundrum

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Remance

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: ree-manse

Sentence: When Gloria hads recurring bouts of regret over breaking up with Mark she engages him in remance, finding opportunities here and there to cuddle and make out, though she has no desire to rekindle the relationship itself.

Etymology: Play on the word 'romance' with prefix 're' - to do over

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Posance

Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: po-zaens

Sentence: Though Shahida and Aamir had broken, still kissing each other. but all know it was just a posance to make siara jealous and nothing.

Etymology: Pose = to show or act something which is not true. Romance= related to love

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Formermoans

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: for mer moanz

Sentence: Although they had officially broken up, Dick and Mona always enjoyed their Friday nights. Their deal had been that if either had no current love interest, they would get together for a formermoans session. It sounded like a friends with benefits relationship but carried on much further. One had to wonder why it still occurred after each had been happily wed to others for a number of years? What if their prospective grandchildren found out?

Etymology: Former (ex, previous) & Moans (an utterance expressing pain or disapproval or joy or sexual desire) -Wordplay on Pheromones (a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or sexual behavior of other animals of the same species)

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Anulltery

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: uh-null-tur-ee

Sentence: Although she knew it was over for good between them, Bob looked so hot in that purple spandex thong that Sue could not stop herself from committing anulltery.

Etymology: anull, adultery

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COMMENTS:

Congrats purpleartichokes - 5 consecutive great words this week - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-16: 10:31:00

I just have to add my vote here - great words all week!! - w5lf9s, 2007-02-16: 12:07:00

Thanks Jabberwocky. Being snowed in for 2 days certainly helped. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-16: 12:21:00

Thank you w... !! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-16: 20:40:00

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Exsex

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: ECKS-seks

Sentence: "I had the best exsex with Mona last night," Travis beamed. "I shoulda divorced her YEARS ago!"

Etymology: ex + sex

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Dejascrew

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: day ja skrou

Sentence: that eerie yet strangely comforting feeling of dejascrew set her essentials a-tingling

Etymology: deja vu + screw

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COMMENTS:

This is classic! - Alchemist, 2007-02-16: 07:05:00

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Humpanex

Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: Hump - un - x

Sentence: Jezebel knew she wasn't ever going to call Tony again, but she couldn't resist a little humpanex after not seeing him since their last date, over a year ago.

Etymology: Hump - horny, sex, make-out an - obvious ex - previous boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse

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Incinerelate

Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: While they continued to incinerelate at opportune times they knew the relationship was over.

Etymology: from incinerate meaning to rekindle, burn (and to go down in flames!) and relate: to couple, connect, cojoin

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Hindplay

Created by: w5lf9s

Pronunciation: hind.play

Sentence: "Oh, come on, stay over one last time tonight. A little hindplay has never done anyone any harm"

Etymology: combination of "hindsight" and "foreplay"

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COMMENTS:

Very nice! When I saw the definition I thought, "A word already exists for this: backsliding!" But then I saw hindplay... fabulous and useful! - NohWoman, 2007-02-16: 02:32:00

Yes, as NohWoman says, very useful! - wordmeister, 2007-02-16: 09:26:00

thanks for the flowers to both of you. I do enjoy coming up with this stuff and there are some really creative people playing here. - w5lf9s, 2007-02-16: 11:56:00

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Comments:

ErWenn - 2007-02-17: 08:10:00
You know, if everyone could vote an unlimited number of times, or if there was a ranking system, instead of a voting system, that would take care of several problems at once. It would fix the late-post deficiency as well as the too-many-good-words problem.

Discoveria - 2007-02-17: 09:33:00
Maybe no new words should be displayed until there are at least 10, so you won't be tempted to vote until there's a sizeable batch of words.

ErWenn - 2007-02-18: 10:16:00
Or even just switch the vote to yesterday's verboticisms while people are creating today's.

Discoveria - 2007-02-18: 18:37:00
That would have the added (mostly good) effect of giving me something to do on Verbotomy on Saturdays.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-02-18: 22:38:00
Hey ErWenn and Discoveria, We could try either of these options. Would you be interested in a test week using an alternative voting sytem? Let me know ~ James (james@verbotomy.com)