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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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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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Albotify

blinkinglight

Created by: blinkinglight

Pronunciation: Al-Bo-Tee-Fuy

Sentence: I haven't fully understood the hidden message in the commercial, could you please albotify?

Etymology:

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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)

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Parentplegic

Created by: janatic

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I'd love to go out tonight, but we had an accident last night and i'm afraid i've become parentplegic.

Etymology: parent + paraplegic

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Permast

Created by: callum

Pronunciation: per-mast

Sentence: "she held her children in permast"

Etymology:

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Giventry

Created by: thesmeagle

Pronunciation: giv-en-tree

Sentence: When she mother gave him the money she would have used to buy a condo in Hawaii to start his business, Bradley was moved to tears by his mother's giventry.

Etymology: From the children's book, The Giving Tree

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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:

whipspeak my favorite so far... - whipspeak, 2009-11-27: 10:28:00

good one - Nosila, 2009-11-29: 11:58:00

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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

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Mombotomy

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: mom-bot-oh-mee

Sentence: It took 4 years of college and not returning countless phone calls from her mom but Jill was finally able to perform a successful mombotomy.

Etymology: Mom, lobotomy

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Mumacrifice

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: mum-ak-rih-fyce

Sentence: Only when Ethel became a mother herself did she truly understand her own mother's mumacrifices.

Etymology: mum + sacrifice

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Comments:

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