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'My mother is a washing machine'

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.

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Materiavitae

mishmish

Created by: mishmish

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Etymology: Well, it's all Latin. It means "material of life", and it also starts with the sounds of the Latin word for mother (Mater).

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Imomolation

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: eh-mawm-moh-lay-shen

Sentence: Her mother worked every chance she could to make enought money to send her to college, buy a house and car, and even a plane ticket out of the state. It was an imomolation of hardworking and love, sadly the daughter never said 'I love you' or even 'thank you'.

Etymology: Immolation (a sacrifice) + mom (mother)

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fantastic - iwasatripwire, 2007-05-11: 21:50:00

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Weanherschitzel

whipspeak

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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Zehr gut! - Nosila, 2009-11-29: 11:57:00

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Lifeprovisionist

Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: Life + pro + vision + ist

Sentence: Her journey consisted of being a lifeprovisonist , a choice she would make out of the love in her heart.

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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

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Totsmartyr

Created by: heartnsoul

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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

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Emomcipate

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: i/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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Matridoricide

Created by: cohenarie

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Etymology: latin words for mother, gift and murder

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Mumlinquish

Created by: fredm

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Sentence: "Typical mumlinquish behaviour", exclaimed the conductor as she forced her children onto the bus, knowing she would have to wait for the next one.

Etymology: Mum + relinquish

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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

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-11: 04:01:00
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-11: 03:23:00
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

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-11: 17:17:00
Hey Bulletchewer, I replaced four letters in your message with non-alphanumeric symbols. Did that make you unhappy? ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-11: 18:59:00
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-11: 20:20:00
Me too. But that's okay, it's a game ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-11: 20:21:00
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

ohwtepph ohwtepph - 2007-05-11: 20:53:00
*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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-12: 23:53:00
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

petaj petaj - 2007-05-13: 00:47:00
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-27: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James