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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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Parentharsis
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: parr-EN-far-siss
Sentence: After her son Jack left home to start at university, Mary felt a great sense of parentharsis.
Etymology: parent + catharsis (release from strong emotions)
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
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
Mamartyrdom
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /məˈmɑːɹtɚˌdʌm/
Sentence: A rose and a card once a year easily make up for her mamartyrdom.*
Etymology: From mama + martyrdom
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COMMENTS:
*Yes, this is sarcasm. My mother deserves a helluva lot more than I can give. But she'll have to settle for a batch of oatmeal banana chocolate chip cookies this year. - ErWenn, 2007-05-11: 09:34:00
Wow! Those cookies sound great! Where'd ya get the recipe? - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-11: 12:21:00
The missing connection between "Magdalena" and "REV 22:20"? I'll ask Mr Keenan. - Bulletchewer, 2007-05-11: 16:41:00
The recipe is a modification I made of an Alton Brown recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies. I can send you a copy if you want. - ErWenn, 2007-05-12: 21:42:00
Maybe your recipe could be shared on the blog. - petaj, 2007-05-13: 00:34:00
made me laugh! - pguse, 2007-06-01: 14:25:00
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Nurturifice
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: NERT-shur-reh-fice
Sentence: Ma Maribel put aside her own wishes as she spent half a lifetime to nurturifice her children, only to watch dry eyed as the left the 'nest' to pursue their own interests.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'Nurture' (rearing, upbringing, training) and 'Sacrifice' (the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim)
Babsication
Created by: oren22
Pronunciation: Bab pronuonced like tab.
Sentence: the first smile from a new born child, is worth all the babsication a mother has to make.
Etymology:
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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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. :)
Mudderlode
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: mudd/ur/lode
Sentence: Breastfeeding five children over a span of eighteen years demonstates a mudderlode of motherly love.
Etymology: mother lode + udder
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
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