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DEFINITION: n. The embarrassing situation which occurs when a someone says "I love you" and you cannot say it back because you don't "love them", you just "like them". v. To feel uncomfortable when someone says "I love you."
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Floof
Created by: Meganja
Pronunciation: Flew-oof
Sentence: I am such a floof when someone says I love you, because I just stare blankly and wonder why.
Etymology:
Unrequiteable
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: un ree kwyt ab bil
Sentence: Trying to gently turn him down, Maria told Kermit that there was a language barrier between them. Kermit cared not at all. She told him that she did not know if she was ready for tadpoles. Again he gazed at her with bulging eyes. Finally, she told him bluntly that his ardor for her was unrequiteable. He looked despondent and afraid that he might go off and croak, she watched him hop up to a pretty girl on the road. The pretty girl bent down and kissed Kermit and poof! didn't he turn into a tall handsome Prince? He turned to Maria and said, "When I said "ribbit" it does not mean "I love you"...it means "Kiss me and become my Princess!" Maria toadally got it wrong!
Etymology: Unrequited (not returned in kind, not mutual) & Able (having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity to do something)
Thatshamore
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: that-sham-MOR-ay
Sentence: When Ralph told her he loved her with all his heart, Marissa shuddered in revulsion, but she did have sympathy for the poor oaf and momentarily considered telling a little white lie and saying she loved him too, but was silently singing to herself, Thatshamore', and in the end stuttered and stammered in an effort to change the subject.
Etymology: Blend of 'that's', 'sham' (fake or phony), and amore' (Italian for 'love')
Amororless
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: āmôrôrles
Sentence: She loved him more and more. He loved her amororless. Her love was passionate, his approximate.
Etymology: amore (love in Italian) + more or less (indifference)
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COMMENTS:
wonderful - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-10: 10:23:00
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Discomloveulated
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: diskəmləvyəlāted
Sentence: Sue had a great time on her blind date with Bob. She was however completely discomloveulated when he proposed on their second date.
Etymology: discombobulated (disconcert or confuse someone) + love (an intense feeling of deep affection)
Gawkward
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: gaw-werd
Sentence: Joyce had decided to terminate her relationship with Tim. He might be handsome but they have absolutely nothing in common. She planned to tell him goodbye when they went out to dinner. It was a truly gawkward event made worse when Tim pulled a ring out of his pocket.
Etymology: gawky (clumsy) + awkward (inelegant)
Toadallyawkwart
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: toe dal lee ok wart
Sentence: When the Frog told Esmeralda she was toadallyawesome and she should kiss him, it became a toadallyawkwart moment for her. Should she risk lip warts or should she free a handsome Prince from a spell? She decided that since her dates had been far and few lately, she would give him a big kiss on his (yuck) green lips. He immediately turned into a photo of a handsome Prince, with a slogan on him saying, "Someday, your prints will come.." She dearly hoped that she would not have tadpoles!
Etymology: Toad (amphibian, like a frog) & Totally (like awesome, to the full extent) & Awkward (not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner)& Wart (What you allegedly get on your hands while handling a toad)
Loveknot
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: luv - not
Sentence: Jeremy felt the loveknot starting again as Maria approached him. Every morning she would bring him his coffee at work, and perch on his desk to talk. Lately, she had started to tousle his hair and occasionally whisper the big "L" word. They had been friends for a couple of years and he was not quite sure that he felt anything more. Now, things were becoming decidely uncomfortable for Jeremy.
Etymology: Love + not + knot >>>>Love(a strong positive emotion of regard and affection) Not (negation of a word or group of words) Knot (something twisted and tight i.e. "his stomach was in knots)
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COMMENTS:
a little twisted but terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-10: 10:25:00
packs emotional punch apt to the definition. Powerful word. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-10: 17:51:00
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Beminefield
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: be MINE field
Sentence: The situation had become a beminefield. My heart, that little cold black thing of mine, started to race. He was not my besotted. He was my beswatted, as I struck him down with my deafening silence after he said those three little words. "Do you cook?" Then, while I was still reeling, he whispered, "I love you," and I didn't know which question to ignore the loudest. So I quickly tried to fill the silence. "I think it's going to rain tomorrow. What do you think?"
Etymology: BEMINE: like in valentine MINEFIELD: a place where you are in danger of setting off mines
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COMMENTS:
I liek it. - Nuwanda, 2009-02-10: 09:08:00
I like it as well - Nuwanda, 2009-02-10: 09:09:00
me like it too - mweinmann, 2009-02-10: 09:36:00
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-10: 10:24:00
heehee - galwaywegian, 2009-02-10: 11:57:00
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Ribbitterate
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: ri-bi-ter-rate
Sentence: Kramitt Rah-ba-ba-bah had to ribbitterate several times to try and get his love across to Bushwa.
Etymology: Ribbit and Reiterate combined - To say something again or a number or times, typically for emphasis or clarity.

Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James