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DEFINITION: Something, or someone, that appears to be warm and fuzzy but is, when you get close, sharp and prickly.
Verboticisms
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Prickeley
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: prickeley
Sentence: i am not cute i am prickeley
Etymology: prickking
Hedgedog
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: hedge - dog
Sentence: Approaching the cure furry animals, Mark thought they looked ideal pets. As he stroked the nearest, his fingers were covered in little needles. He has been hedgedogged.
Etymology: hedge - solid, prickly dog - warm and cuddly
Furbyopia
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: fur-bee-OH-pee-ah
Sentence: Jim suffered from furbyopia, as he realized when he picked what he only thought was a chocolate-chip cookie off the kitchen floor. "Bad dog," he shouted.
Etymology: Furby, the furry but annoying toy, + presbyopia, nearsightedness
Flufficky
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: fluff icky
Sentence: colins dog was flufficky, he looked cute enough but on close inspection he was slightly mange ridden.
Etymology: from fluffy and icky
Adowable
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: Ah-dOW!-a-bull
Sentence: Those kitten paws are just adowable.
Etymology: Adorable+OW!
Indistofuzzitravile
Created by: TrJoshB
Pronunciation: in-di-stow-fuzz-it-ra-vile
Sentence: Although She became very attractive over the last couple of beers; I had to remind myself that she was indistofuzzitravile.
Etymology: in + distance + fuzzy + travel + vile
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COMMENTS:
wow that's alot of letters. - TrJoshB, 2007-01-24: 17:08:00
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Clawddle
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: claw-dl
Sentence: Was she ever surprised when she clawddled up to that wool sweater.
Etymology: claw + cuddle
Prickmedainty
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: prick/me/dane/ty
Sentence: My mother always advised me never to pay lip service to a prickmedainty.
Etymology: prick + me + dainty: also a 19th century expression meaning a person of either sex who is finicky about his or her style of dress
Eezkidnya
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: eez-kid-n-ya
Sentence: The echidna has inflicted nasty wounds on those fooled by it's cuteness. It has definitely fooled a few animal lovers - and as the locals say he's kidding yer. (eezkidnya)
Etymology: echidna (Australian ant eater with lots of spikes) + he's kidding you (playing a joke on you)
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COMMENTS:
One for the Aussie verbotomists - petaj, 2007-01-23: 05:14:00
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Werekitten
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: we're + kit + n
Sentence: Betsy was nothing but a werekitten, she acted nice but had a black heart.
Etymology: Were + kitten
Comments:
allwise - 2007-01-23: 02:28:00
he he, nice sentence =)