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'So how are you adjusting to married life?'

DEFINITION: v. To compensate for lack of love, attention and/or sexual favors by buying things, lots of things. n. An object purchased to compensate for sexual dawdling.

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Phallacy

Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: PHALLic+fallACY

Sentence: His purchasing tools was just a phallacy, since he already had the only tool he needed for the job, but lacked the experience in using it.

Etymology: PHALLic+fallACY

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Dotcompensate

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dot com pen sate

Sentence: Eddie lived a hermitic existance in a basement bedroom in his parents' house. He had no life other than that lived through his best friend, his computer. He called her Della, because she was a Dell, the romantic fool. Everyday he showered her with things he bought for her on e-bay and amazon and every imagineable shopping website. A fancy mousepad here, a scanner there, software programs to last her a lifetime. In other words, he dotcompensated for the fact that she was the only female who responded to him. Oh sure, sometimes she would freeze up if he had spoken harshly to her or she'd need her hard drive tweaked. To show his affection, he would go straight to a new site and order her something nice to make her happy. Yes, Eddie was one lonely geek, who's mother ever dispared of becoming a granny!

Etymology: dot.com (A company whose business is based around a website) & compensate (adjust or make up for;make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating;the act of furnishing an equivalent thing in the place of another)

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COMMENTS:

love it! - galwaywegian, 2008-06-05: 05:35:00

excellent around. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:42:00

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Acqueath

Created by: hhudson

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Sexstitute

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: sex/sti/toot

Sentence: When Joe and Jenny were having an extended fight and not talking to each other, Joe would sexstitute with the purchase of many big ticket items.

Etymology: SEXSTITUTE - verb - from SEX + SUBSTITUTE

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COMMENTS:

Excellent! - Mustang, 2008-06-05: 18:36:00

good one - Nosila, 2008-06-05: 19:35:00

good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:47:00

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Masterbysion

Created by: pungineer

Pronunciation: master-buy-shun

Sentence: Poor Steve had been in a fulfilling heterosexual relationship for so long his only sexual outlet was popping down to his local hardware megastore for some much needed masterbysion in the extendable tool aisle

Etymology: i'll let you all rack your brains to figure this one out...

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COMMENTS:

masterfull - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:48:00

He might have been looking for a lathe? - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:45:00

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Weddedbling

Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: |wɛdɛdblɪŋ|

Sentence: The absence of satisfactory relations lead Mary to develop a mild to severe case of weddedbling.

Etymology: A divorcing of wedded bliss and subsequent uniting of wedded bling. Wedded: A legal agreement between couples to ignore each other. Bling: Items of consumer fancy, usually tacky/second rate/imitation in origin.

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Foodiddle

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: foo-did-le

Sentence: After 17 and half hours of abstinence, Seymour was about ready to jump out of his pants, so rather than attacking his boss – for some bizarre reason she was getting more and more attractive by the second – he went downstairs fooddidled himself with brand new cravat. And as the afternoon wore on, he simply tightened the loop around his neck whenever the urge returned. Sadly none of his coworkers noticed, until it was too late...

Etymology: fool ( or faux) + diddle

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Conerapy

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Created by: kulekrizpy

Pronunciation: con-air-ap-y

Sentence: Tony had been feeling neglected by his girlfriend lately, and had the urge to use conerapy.

Etymology: "con" from the word consume (to use or buy) and "erapy" from the word therapy (treatment of an illness or disability). Made to sound similar to compensate (make up for).

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Shopualgratification

Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: shop u awl gra ti fi cay shun

Sentence: Yesterday it was her turn. He bought her two dozen long stems! 'That should buy me some time,' he thought. He felt shopuallygratified again with today's purchases...power tools, ahhhh!

Etymology: From sexual gratification and to shop.

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COMMENTS:

shop till you drop... - Nosila, 2009-07-23: 19:28:00

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Mallcontent

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mall con tent

Sentence: When Cyrus found himself feeling the everydayness of marriage, he would head out for a day of retail therapy to become a true mallcontent.

Etymology: Mall (shopping Mecca) & Content (Happy) & WorPlay on Malcontent (a person who is discontented)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-06-05: 00:00:01
Today's definition is inspired by the scene in Sex and the City where a sex-starved Samantha fills her Mercedes with boxes from Gucci ~ James

- 2008-06-05: 15:25:00
Ahaha - I just read this after I created my word...seems like we're both on the same thought track!!!!

- 2008-06-05: 17:30:00
Yes -- is it genetic?? Great word!