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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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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
Matrelease
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: mat-ree-lease
Sentence: After so many years of sacrifice for her babies, it was finally matrelease time - time to set them free.
Etymology: Mat (from maternal) + release
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)
Mudderlode
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: mud/ur/lowd
Sentence: Breastfeeding five children over a span of eighteen years demonstates a mudderlode of motherly love.
Etymology: mother lode + udder
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COMMENTS:
haha, nice. you got my vote! XD - ohwtepph, 2007-05-11: 06:50:00
Great! Mudderload would work too! - toadstool57, 2007-05-11: 08:04:00
Mammaries... light the corners of my mind... (uh-oh) - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-11: 08:12:00
Grr... purple!! milky watercolour mammaries.... and yes toadstool57 mudderload is good - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-11: 09:12:00
Try using "Louie Louie" to exorcise Barbara Streisand. Nobody knows the lyrics to it. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-11: 11:17:00
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Martyrnal
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: mar-terr-nul
Sentence: She started sacrificing all of her outside interests when her martyrnal instinct kicked in
Etymology: martyr, maternal
Materiavitae
Created by: mishmish
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
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).
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
Matrisacrifract
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: matt-rih-SACK-rih-fract
Sentence: Though she meant well, Alex was glad when his mother reached the point of matrisacrifract.
Etymology: matri- + sacrif(ice) + fract(ure) [a sacrifice followed by a break]. And, c'mon, it's just fun to say. :)
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