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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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Sexersatz

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: sex-er-sats

Sentence: Jill wondered why Jack was converting their den into a gym to put all his sexersatz equipment. Everytime he went to the mall he was buying more weights.

Etymology: sex: (tee-hee)+ exercise: some men will use exercise as a way to channel their tensions and frustrations + ersatz: an inferior substitute

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Lustomerservice

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: lust-ah-mer-ser-viss

Sentence: he headed to the mall for some lustomerservice.

Etymology: lust, customer service

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COMMENTS:

Lust it...I mean love it! - Nosila, 2009-07-23: 19:27:00

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Buysexual

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: bīˈsek sh oōəl

Sentence: People say that things change when the ring goes on. If bedroom activities were curtailed after the nuptials, they became stagnant after the kids arrived. Kelly found himself becoming buysexual, one day shopping for things for her to garner her favor, the next shopping for himself, to compensate for his sense of inadequacy. For him, it has to be a cash purchase. Somehow, the use of plastic is never as satisfying as the real thing.

Etymology: buy (obtain in exchange for payment) + sexual (relating to the instincts, physiological processes, and activities connected with physical attraction or intimate physical contact between individuals) a play off of bisexual (having characteristics of both sexes)

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COMMENTS:

It's a good buyword! - Nosila, 2009-07-23: 19:28:00

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Shopxual

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: shop-xu-al

Sentence: Since married life had gotten to where Smark had zero passion from his wife, Que-Veecee...he figured if he was more shopxual eventually she may want to touch him again.

Etymology: Shop-To go from store to store in search of merchandise or bargains. Xual-taken in part from the work sexual.

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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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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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Purchosexual

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: pur-cho-SEK-shoo-uhl

Sentence: Roxie never had the slightest intention of consummating her marriage to Bob. After all, think of the danger: children are expensive, leaving little for spend-ups on yourself. Initially, naturally, Bob raised objections to the idea, but gradually she made him see the 'wisdom of her ways. What's more realizing that he had plenty of money to indulge himself with, he began splurging with a red hot passion in procuring the most exotic screws. Still, at times, he did feel that he had been toolshedded; though life was certainly not without its ups and downs as a purchosexual.

Etymology: PURCH of purchase & SEXUAL, as in metrosexual, retrosexual, fauxmosexual. Cognate:purchosexuality

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COMMENTS:

love the sound of this and a great funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:50:00

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Acqueath

Created by: hhudson

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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!