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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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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.
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
Buybuylove
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: by by luv
Sentence: Buybuylove, buybuy happiness. Hello loneliness, I think I'm-a gonna cry. ByBuybuylove, buybuy sweet caress. Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die. buybuylove, goodbuy. (With apologies to the Everly Bros.)
Etymology: Buy Buy (purchase, shop, purchase, shop) Love (affection,fondness,a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction)
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
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.
Celibaspree
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /SEL-uh-buh-spree/
Sentence: Donald had now been married for six years — the 'honeymoon' period was long over — and his wife no longer looked for excuses to spend time with him; quite the opposite, in fact. Having little else to occupy his attention, he spent most of his spare time in the garage restoring his old Mustang. Once he got into it, he found all sorts of extra parts, tools and accessories he could buy for the car. Donald went on a celibaspree, buying new spoilers, chrome valve covers, and new seats for Rose's birthday... Rose was the name of Donald's Mustang, not his wife, (he'd been so busy with the car, he'd forgotten his wife's birthday this year).
Etymology: Celibacy - abstention from sexual relations (from L. cælibatus "state of being unmarried") + Spree - a period, spell, or bout of indulgence; e.g. a shopping spree (alteration of Fr. esprit "lively")
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:49:00
Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:37:00
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Buysexual
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bīsekshoōəl
Sentence: Now that they are married Jason's wife seems quite a bit less interested in intimate time. This is how Jason discovered that he is a buysexual. The only thing overheated in this relationship is their credit account.
Etymology: buy (obtain in exchange for payment) + sexual (activities connected with physical attraction or intimate physical contact between individuals)
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COMMENTS:
The LGBT society just got bigger - scrabbelicious, 2012-01-09: 11:43:00
The LGBT society just got bigger - scrabbelicious, 2012-01-09: 11:44:00
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Sexersatz
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
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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Hoarderculturalist
Created by: ampruteanu
Pronunciation: Whore-duhr-cuhl-choo-ruh-list
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Sorry, didn't understand fully. Thought this was referring to a person who compensates for lack of love, attention, by buying things. - ampruteanu, 2010-08-05: 07:58:00
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Comments:
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!