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DEFINITION: n. The sacrifice a mother makes when she gives everything to her children, including life itself, and then simply lets them go. v. To give someone everything and then watch them walk away.
Verboticisms
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Weanherschitzel
Created by: whipspeak
Pronunciation: ween-hur-shit-suhl
Sentence: On her son Myron's 23rd birthday, Fran served weanherschitzel.
Etymology: wean: to withhold mother's milk from (the young of a mammal) and substitute other nourishment. + her: the possessive form of she + schitzel: whipspeak for unappreciative offspring
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COMMENTS:
Zehr gut! - Nosila, 2009-11-29: 11:57:00
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Emomcipate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/mom/suh/-peyt
Sentence: After nine months of eating all the right foods,countless nights of discomfort and no drugs , or alcohol, she was ready to emomcipate her child.
Etymology: mom + emancipate
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COMMENTS:
my favorite so far... - whipspeak, 2009-11-27: 10:28:00
good one - Nosila, 2009-11-29: 11:58:00
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Sacribyes
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sak rib ize
Sentence: After her tenth child was born, Melba knew it was time to start giving her sacribyes to the older kids. Not that she wanted to, but they were 19, 20 AND 21 and needed to get out in the world to make their own way. Besides, she would still have 7 at home under age for now to look after. Her biggest worry was what would she do when this last little one left the nest...because she had given up all her identity to raise him and his siblings.How much of her own self was there left?
Etymology: Sacrifice (endure the loss of;the act of losing or surrendering something) & Byes (a farewell remark;) and rhymes with Sacrifice
Bratlifice
Created by: katytee
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After 28 years of bratlifice, Mary ran away to Tuscany with the milkman.
Etymology: brats + life + sacrifice
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COMMENTS:
nice word. anywhere but Bratislava would probably have sufficed. - galwaywegian, 2007-05-11: 06:27:00
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Divorfeit
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: di-vor-fit
Sentence: My poor mother had a hard time letting me go to college so far away, but eventually she came to terms with her divorfeit
Etymology: divorce (in the separation sense, not the end-of-a-marriage sense) + forfeit
Sacriglect
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: sack-ree-glect
Sentence: Julie tended to sacriglect for her child in that she would give all that she could and then give up before the end.
Etymology: sacrifice + neglect
Cordummycut
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: cord-um-mee-cut or core-dumm-me-cut
Sentence: Oedipus was a little too grateful for the times before the cordummycut; he longed to go back...
Etymology: From "umbilical cord" meaning "child's lifeline", "mummy" meaning "bandaged corpse", "dummy" meaning "pacifier or scariest type of hand puppet" and "cut" meaning "please stop, actors".
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COMMENTS:
Just realised this weirdly puns on the name of the dude who inspired the definition (yet again, so famous I've never heard of him). - Bulletchewer, 2007-05-11: 11:54:00
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Matrifice
Created by: benjamin
Pronunciation: mae-treh-fice
Sentence: from kindergarten through medical school Elliott's mother paid for everything and even baked cookies; it was the ultimate matrifice. Now he couldn't even find the time to call her once a week
Etymology: mater (prefix for all things having to do with mom) + sacrifice
Kidtropia
Created by: ldikarev
Pronunciation: kid-tro-pia
Sentence: As summer went on she felt kidtropia looking at her garden from the wheelchair. True feeling of kidtropia enveloped him as he watched his spaceship leap into the unknown time and space.
Etymology: kid, kids. - atrophia (in this case 'self' is atrophied in order to make room for needs of the child)
Totsmartyr
Created by: heartnsoul
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She had always been devoted to their young son, but when Mark caught his wife writing Tommy’s HS book report, he realized his wife’s totsmartyr ways would never die. This mom was sure she always knew best.
Etymology: tot's + martyr OR tot + smarter / martyr
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, which is a story about a guy who's mother is literally a washing machine. It's a great read! And since this weekend is Mother's Day, it seems like the perfect fit! I was also thinking about "After the Siege" in Overclocked, where a mother pushes herself beyond exhaustion trying to save her child - the sacrifice. And purpleartichokes inadvertently suggested the mother idea with her comments on the younger degeneration. Thank you Cory and purpleartichokes! ~ James
ErWenn - 2007-05-11: 09:39:00
I noticed that many verbotomists focussed on the "letting go" part of the definition as the key, while others treated it as just one small part of the maternal sacrifice. I'm sure it says something about our personalities, but I'm not sure what.
We have posted The Petaj Splinterview on the Verbotomy Blog. ~ James
Bulletchewer - 2007-05-11: 16:55:00
I "have issues" because I advocate free speech as opposed to miserable hypocrisy of censorship? HUSH
Hey Bulletchewer, I replaced four letters in your message with non-alphanumeric symbols. Did that make you unhappy? ~ James
Hey ErWenn, I agree with you. The words and language we choose to use do indeed reflect our personalities. And with a definition like today's, there are many different viewpoints, so it gets complicated... I guess that's why they have Freudian psychiatrists. ~ James
Bulletchewer - 2007-05-11: 19:18:00
It made me THE most $@*#ing miserable crybaby in the whole world! Just kidding.
Me too. But that's okay, it's a game ~ James
Anyways, in many parts of the world, this Sunday is Mother's Day, so I would like to remind all our verbotomists to take appropriate action (e.g. buy flowers). And to all our verbotomists who happen to be mothers, I would like to say thank you. Thank you for your wonderful creativity. ~ James
*gasp* I am so honored. Petaj used my word TWICE!!! in his splinterview. Now, I can die peacefully.
Clayton - 2007-05-12: 17:21:00
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the highest scoring words often do not reflect the part of speech suggested by the definition? Occasionally, this can be somewhat difficult to determine from a given description, but "the sacrifice a mother makes" clearly indicates that this word is meant to be a noun. Just nitpicking.
Hey Clayton, I have made a blog posting about this question. See: Parts of Speech and Verbotomy. It will be very interesting to hear what ErWenn has to say about this issue, since he also asked similar questions. ~ James
Clearly I should have mentioned that ohwtepph can also be relied on for coming up with not only amusing words, but very useful additions to everyday language.
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James