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DEFINITION: n. The emotional connection between a mother and her child, which continues on through life despite all the protestations. v. To be loved by your mother and even though you complain about it a lot.
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Amomability
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: A Mom A bilitee
Sentence: For eighty years she showed great agility at her favourite calling, her kids never doubted her amomability!
Etymology: A Mom (a female parent) & Ability (the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment;possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:13:00
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Maternality
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: muh-tern-AL-ity
Sentence: The bond between mothers and offspring is maternality, maternal love and instincts that last throughout the lifetime.
Etymology: Blend of maternal and eternity
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COMMENTS:
Maternally yours! - Nosila, 2009-05-08: 10:34:00
so sweet - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:17:00
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Parentrapment
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: pair entrapment
Sentence: Bob once had a case of parentrapment: "Come mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is rapidly agin'." ... Youth is charming, but at times a little selfish and impatient. This is more how I feel: "Love while ya can 'cos too soon they'll be gone, for the times they are a changin'"
Etymology: Parent: mum or dad. Entrapment: a compromising situation imposed upon you. Bob Dylan: You rock, man. Mum: I love you
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COMMENTS:
nice Dylan reference - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:19:00
Fabulous. Love the sentence. - dochanne, 2009-05-08: 19:45:00
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Smotherhood
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sməðərhoŏd
Sentence: Joyce is very good at smotherhood. Despite protests from her son Tom, she is involved just about every aspect of his life. She selects what he should wear each day. She plans his diet, what he watches on TV, how he spends his spare time. Tom's wife just wants her to go home for a while.
Etymology: smother (make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective manner toward them) motherhood (being with a female parent)
Momdage
Created by: ShittyZen
Pronunciation: momdage
Sentence: Lacking competition from a needy father, her deadbeat kids kept her in eternal momdage.
Etymology: Mom + bondage (As in "serfdom," not the sexual practice, you pervs!)
Umbilicallingcard
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: um/bill/i/call/ing/card
Sentence: No matter where you may be or what you may be doing you have a lifelong umbilicallingcard with your mother. If not for you, Babe, I couldn't find the door, Couldn't even see the floor, I'd be sad and blue, If not for you.
Etymology: umbilical + calling card
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COMMENTS:
real charm to umbilicallingcard! - splendiction, 2009-05-08: 23:07:00
Cute...I feel so attached. Cord-On Blue! - Nosila, 2009-05-08: 23:19:00
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Magape
Created by: UnluckyCharm511
Pronunciation: Ma-gaip
Sentence: The mother loved her only so much, it was the culmination of magape.
Etymology: From Agape (unconditional love) and Mother.
Dylanquerncy
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: Dill-an-kwern-see
Sentence: Cameron bristled every time his mother's dylanquerncy surfaced, it reminded him of where he once begun, she would 'always be emotionally yours', even when he was unraveling wherever he's traveling, even to foreign shores. Despite his behaviour or her neediness, boy, mama was on his mind!
Etymology: Dylan - rocks; delinquency - objectionable behaviour usu of youth and emotionally laden; maternity/paternity - parentage; infancy - period of immaturity and neediness.
Wombance
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: woom-ans
Sentence: Sarah was jealous of her husband's wombance with his mother until she had her first child. Then she understood.
Etymology: womb (uterus) + romance (a love affair)
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COMMENTS:
reminds me of Van Morrison's Moondance; Well, its a marvelous night for a wombance - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:20:00
Wombance - is that when wombats feel romance?? - Nosila, 2009-05-08: 23:23:00
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Comments:
We're celebrating Mothers Day with today's definition, and with a few words from the Bob Dylan song Lord Protect My Child:
Just to see him at play makes me smile
No matter what happens to me
No matter what my destiny
Lord, protect my child
Happy Mother's Day ~ James
Oh great, now I get to spend all day with mascara running down my face. I almost couldn't write anything. The lyrics to the song are so beautiful and all at once bathed me in memories of my mother, memories of the birth of my daughter and of the day I was blessed to be there for the birth of her son. Thank you, James.
It sounds like Bob has touched a chord. Thanks! ~ James