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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
Verboticisms
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Sexparate
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Secks-par-rate
Sentence: Desperate Delilah sexparated with suave Samson even though he would never forgive her for betraying him and his biblically significant head of hair.
Etymology: Sex + separate
Sexpostfacto
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: sex + post + fact + oh!
Sentence: Once in a while she gets drunk and lonely and shows up at 3 AM for a little sexpostfacto.
Etymology: sex & "ex post facto"
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COMMENTS:
Oooooh. Lawguistics. Good one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-16: 18:02:00
This is smarter than my own word! - Discoveria, 2007-02-16: 18:23:00
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Moreplay
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: moor + plae
Sentence: Bill would call his ex Carol when he was in the mood for a little moreplay.
Etymology: More + Play (something like Foreplay)
Seperentuality
Created by: cellardweller
Pronunciation: sep-er-ent-YOU-al-it-ty
Sentence: Their relationship was charged with seperentuality.
Etymology: Seperate + Sensuality
Copudetat
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kop/u/dey/ta
Sentence: John had no luck at the dance club, so decided to stop by his ex's place and try to pull off a copud'etat
Etymology: copulate + coup d'etat (to exploit)
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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Retrobound
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛtɹoˌbaʊnd/
Sentence: GILMORE GIRLS SPOILER: As expected, Lorelai's fling with Chris turned out just to be a retrobound.
Etymology: From retro- + bound, as in "rebound"
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COMMENTS:
I switched to IPA for pronounciation. It makes it seem more professional, which makes it seem funnier to me. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:38:00
The funny thing is that I don't even watch Gilmore Girls. All I know, I pick up from snippets overheard from the other room while doing my homework while my better half watches. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:40:00
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Postpwnd
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: post-poned
Sentence: What is it with some girls and postpwning? Don't they know that there is no reason for it, and it is just unacceptable?
Etymology: post (as in after) pwned (as in the nerdy version of owned, from a typo in, I believe, a halo game.) It means, basically, to defeat an enemy.
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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Rebooty
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rēboōtē
Sentence: Rob and Jill know that they will never be able to get back together. There have been too many hurtful incidents for that to be possible. Despite that they can’t seem to resist the lure of the rebooty call. For a short time they can forget the past, as long as one of them departs quickly, before they can start talking.
Etymology: reboot (an act of booting a computer system again) + booty call (a sexual invitation or rendezvous)
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COMMENTS:
nice one - galwaywegian, 2011-02-11: 05:11:00
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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.
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)