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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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Koalalusion
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: co-ALL-ah-loo-zhun
Sentence: His online profile described him as someone who "likes to cuddle by the fire", but when he showed up at her door clad in black leather with a tatoo proclaiming that he slept with her mother, Sue quickly realized she had just hooked-up with yet another koalalusion.
Etymology: koala, illusion
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COMMENTS:
poor sue, seems like she has a bad habit... - wordmeister, 2007-01-23: 15:39:00
She shouldn't have had such high expectations when she signed up at the dating service Letch.com - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-23: 16:58:00
Another aussie creature in the list! - petaj, 2007-01-24: 02:11:00
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Kittytankerous
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kit/ee/tang/ker/uhs
Sentence: Bosses have to be kittytankerous individuals to get their job done.
Etymology: kitty + cantankerous
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COMMENTS:
What about teachers? - wordmeister, 2007-01-23: 12:58:00
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Adowable
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: Ah-dOW!-a-bull
Sentence: Those kitten paws are just adowable.
Etymology: Adorable+OW!
Retrospinous
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: ret-tro-spyn-nuss
Sentence: Miss Binns is retrospinous - she seems warm and generous at first, but this only hides her spiteful coldheartedness.
Etymology: Retro+spinous, from Latin 'retro' (back, behind - i.e. retrospective) and spinous (covered in or like thorns/spines)
Quillpillow
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: qwill-pill-oh
Sentence: Jen was a quillpillow in that she seemed soft but was in fact prickly and hostile.
Etymology: quill + pillow
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
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
Haasgla
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Ha-asgla
Sentence: When i look futher, i believe it's a another haasgla
Etymology: hard as glass
Trickulent
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: trick you lent
Sentence: He seemed so nice on the internet, but his harsh criticisms and vile asides revealed a truly trickulent side.
Etymology: tricking + truculent (cruel, savage)
Comments:
allwise - 2007-01-23: 02:28:00
he he, nice sentence =)