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DEFINITION: n. A person who wears way too much perfume or cologne. v. To reek of perfume or cologne so strongly that it literally makes other people sick.
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Marinauseate
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: MAR i NAW zee ATE
Sentence: These people who marinate in their perfume, especially those who think they are cleverly covering up a bad smell, marinauseate me. My co-workers think that when they have a cigarette break and then super spray themselves with perfume that they now smell all sweet and lovely. It makes me feel sick. I can barely breath.
Etymology: MARINATE: to soak something in a liquid concoction presumably to prepare it for cooking NAUSEATE: to make somebody feel like they want to vomit
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COMMENTS:
good sentence and word - silveryaspen, 2009-01-23: 16:41:00
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Perfumigate
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: per-fume-i-gate
Sentence: I didn't have time to shower. I could mitigate the bed head with enough product--the wet look is in again, right?--but what to do about my gameyness? I decided to perfumigate, but didn't have any of my signature scents available. I ducked into a convenience store, grabbed the latest issue of Vogue and rubbed all the perfume samples all over my dirty jeans and shirt. On the upside, I got a whole section to myself in the movie theater!
Etymology: Perfume combined with fumigate
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COMMENTS:
I hate it when someone steals my word before I thought of it. PERFECT! :-) - artr, 2009-01-23: 05:55:00
very good - galwaywegian, 2009-01-23: 08:06:00
Excellent! - Mustang, 2009-01-23: 17:13:00
A witigate no one could litigate! - Nosila, 2009-01-23: 23:35:00
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Deodious
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: deee oh deee us
Sentence: hie blind datwe was so deodious that when he threw up over the entrees he was acting on impulse
Etymology: deoderant odious
Obsessereek
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ob-SESS-her-eek
Sentence: Wilma seemed to not notice that her preoccupation with perfumes, colognes, hair sprays and scented lotions made her a walking, talking 'stink bomb', and her friends would talk behind her back about how she obsessereeked and how offensive she was.
Etymology: Blend of 'obsessed' (To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic) and 'reek' (have offensive odor - stink)
Defunkehtize
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: d-funk-eh-tise
Sentence: Reeking Rhonda defunkehtized her stinking pits with a spray called, 'Foulest Le Fluer Pewfume' She said it was made by, Sha'von.
Etymology: de-funk-The word funk basically refers to a strong, generally offensive odor. De-funk would be trying to un-funk a funky odor. :O) Eh- A sound made when nothing else fits the situation. Tized-taken in part from trauma-tized-To subject to trauma of the senses.
Offscentsive
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: off sent siv
Sentence: Estee Louder did not do anything by half. Even her perfume was triple applied and you could smell her coming a block away. When she started in the new office, people's attendance started to drop and it was found that they were all allergic to her strong perfume. They found her offscentsive. When management investigated, they asked where she had transferred in from. Cologne, Germany was the reply.
Etymology: Offensive (causing or able to cause nausea) & Scent (odor, perfume, aroma, smell)
Scentipede
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sent a peed
Sentence: Flora was from Cologne and she was the office scentipede. You knew you were in her presence before you even saw her. She wore a strong haze of perfume around her daily and especially so when she returned from overseas trips with duty free shops. She was truly a scentsational worker.
Etymology: Scent (odor, aroma) & Impede (block one's ability (in this case, to breathe properly) & Wordplay on "Centipede" (bug with 100 legs)
Eauvercologne
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: ˈəʊvə : kəˈləʊn
Sentence: Francis loved a freebee and cologne samples were top of his hitlist. This, coupled with a hectic lifestyle and penchant for polluting, made him a tad heavy handed with his perfume and likely to eauvercologne whenever the going got tough/opportunity a-rose.
Etymology: Over : Extending above and beyond - sandwiched between - Eau de cologne : scented water
Colognicirritation
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Col-own-ik-irr-i-tay-shun
Sentence: Denise suffered from colognicirritation due to the huge amount of perume she sprayed on everyday, she would even, at regular intervals go into the loo and top up with a few more squirts. This would annoy her workmates so much that they all refused to sit at the desk next to hers.
Etymology: Colognic(from cologne) + irritation(to annoy, also inflammation of the skin) = Colognicirritation
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James