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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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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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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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Diversexion

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: DIE-ver-secs-shun

Sentence: Duane's vigorous game of diversexion buying power tools, guns, weight sets, a motorcycle and other big boys toys was a thinly veiled attempt to conceal his concern over his poor performance in and waning interest for romantic activities.

Etymology: Blend of 'diversion' and 'sex'

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Sexersatz

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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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Diversexion

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: die - ver - sex - shun

Sentence: Arnold's vigorous game of diversexion buying power tools, guns, weight sets, a motorcycle and other big boys toys was a thinly veiled attempt to conceal his concern over his poor performance in and waning interest for romantic activities.

Etymology: Blend of diversion and sex

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COMMENTS:

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

Good one, Mustang - Nosila, 2008-06-05: 19:31:00

Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:41:00

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Purchaste

Created by: milorush

Pronunciation: (v., adj.) pər-ˈchāst, (n)ˈpər-ˈchas-tə-tē

Sentence: When Aaron married, he didn't realize that he was accepting a vow of purchastity that would result in an monstrous Visa balance and a poor credit rating.

Etymology: pur[chase] + chastity

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Shopanofrolic

Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Shopp-an-o-frolik

Sentence: Having been married for several years, Carol's sex life was virtually non - existent, She turned into a shopanofrolic to compensate. She would buy expensive items on her credit cards then got a headache when the statement came in, so it had the same effect in the end anyway!!

Etymology: Shop (to purchase items) + Frolic (to behave in a 'playful' manner) = Shopanofrolic

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:52:00

very entertaining sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:48:00

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Conerapy

kulekrizpy

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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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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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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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!