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DEFINITION: n. The strong feelings of devotion and affection which a person feels towards their favorite mechanical device or appliance, such as a car, boat, power tool, or toilet. v. To lavish a machine with affection, attention and an imagined personality.
Verboticisms
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Motofection
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: mow-tow-feck-shun
Sentence: John had severe motofection with the weed whacker. He started to sleep with it next to him in bed; making his wife sick from the fumes and jealousy.
Etymology: motor (an engine of some sort) + affection (love and attention)
Spinfatuation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: spin fat you eh shun
Sentence: Carl loved his car, in fact you could say he had a bad case of spinfatuation. His favourite book and movie had been Stephen King's "Christine", so when he first took her out for a spin (or as he called it, on their first date), he named her Christine. His spinfatuation was automatic and he spent many hours learning auto repair, because he did not want all those grease monkeys down at the local garage touching her sleek chassis, never mind looking under her hood. His time alone with her in the garage soon became a fixation. His mother was worried, but found it hard to torque to him about it. She tried to steer him towards other activities (or even appliances), but he refused to shift and always yelled back at her, until she was exhausted. Her concerns were further fueled by his talking about marrying Christine. She argued that this love was not the wheel thing and their age differential was too great. His mother almost had a hemi one day when she discovered that Carl had left a note saying that he and Christine had eloped. The next day, Carl walked home, leaking eye fluids, without the lovely Christine. His mother saw that he was ready to blow a gasket and asked him what happened. Carl broke down and said "I have made a complete axle of myself on my wedding night!" He told her that he had found out when she had made a transmission, that Christine had had some "work" done on her before they met, she was really a convertible... she used to be known as Christopher! She became the little engine that couldn't. Carl lost all his inhibitors and committed battery first and then vehicular homicide. He had come home to look for his cables...the jumpers. We knew it would all end in gears...Oh, the heart brake!
Etymology: spin (a drive in a car;twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation;or make up a story) & infatuation (foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration)
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COMMENTS:
Another amazing story. Hilarious! - Tigger, 2008-03-28: 00:02:00
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Machiniality
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: mE-shin-ni-ae-lih-ti
Sentence:
Etymology: From 'machine' and 'bestiality'.
Spinfatuation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: spin fat u ay shun
Sentence: Carl loved his car, in fact you could say he had a bad case of spinfatuation. His favourite book and movie had been Stephen King's "Christine", so when he first took her out for a spin (or as he called it, on their first date), he named her Christine. His spinfatuation was automatic and he spent many hours learning auto repair, because he did not want all those grease monkeys down at the local garage touching her sleek chassis, never mind looking under her hood. His time alone with her in the garage soon became a fixation. His mother was worried, but found it hard to torque to him about it. She tried to steer him towards other activities (or even appliances), but he refused to shift and always yelled back at her, until she was exhausted. Her concerns were further fueled by his talk about marrying Christine. She argued that this love was not the wheel thing and their age differential was too great. His mother almost had a hemi one day, when she discovered that Carl had left a note saying that he and Christine had eloped. The next day, Carl walked home, leaking eye fluids, without the lovely Christine. His mother saw that he was ready to blow a gasket and asked him what happened. Carl broke down and said "I have made a complete axle of myself on my wedding night!" He told her that he had found out when she had made a transmission, that Christine had had some "work" done on her before they met, she was really a convertible... she used to be known as Christopher! She became the little engine that couldn't. Carl lost all his inhibitors and committed battery first and then vehicular homicide. He had come home to look for his cables...the jumpers. We knew it would all end in gears...Oh, the heart brake!
Etymology: Spin (go out for a drive) & Infatuation (an object of extravagant short-lived passion)
Inanamophile
Created by: naxos22
Pronunciation: in - ana - mo - phile
Sentence: An inanamophile treats inanimate objects ashuman beings or interacts with them as if they are alive.
Etymology:
Greastiality
Created by: cosmonaut
Pronunciation: grees-chee-al-i-tee
Sentence: "I don't see why it is wrong, I just love my car?!" "Greastiality is an abomination before God!"
Etymology: A forced blend of the words grease and bestiality.
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COMMENTS:
Hehe. It's an actual fetish. There are guys who hump their tailpipes. A bit of grease would do wonders & maybe a foil condom to avoid GTSTD's - GlobalGallery, 2009-01-19: 05:14:00
heehee! - galwaywegian, 2009-01-19: 10:10:00
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Burnon
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation: burn-on
Sentence: that new shiny electrical thingy was such a burn-on, he couldn't wait to touch it... and then it hit him in his head and bit him in the ass.
Etymology:
Mechanimism
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /muh-KAN-uh-miz-um/
Sentence: 'Janice seems to really love her new food processor,' mused Charles as he left her apartment. She'd invited him over for dinner, but then she'd spent most of the evening in the kitchen with it. He was sure he'd heard Janice humming and cooing to it everytime she switched it on, and she would meticulously clean it between and after each use, admiring the sharp, shiny, new blades. As he got into his car, Charles told himself that he wasn't jealous, but this was surely a case of mechanimism, and he began to wonder about Janice's sanity. "Oh well," he thought, patting the dashboard of his Porche, "that just means more quality time for us, right Katrina?" (the car was named for her stormy personality).
Etymology: Mechanical - having to do with machinery (from Greek, mekhanikos "an engineer") + Animism - the belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects (from Latin, anima "life, breath, soul")
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COMMENTS:
I was going to use 'Mechanthropomorphism' but that seemed a bit too long... - Tigger, 2008-03-27: 07:29:00
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Motordoter
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: mōtərdoʊdər
Sentence: Larry is a motordoter. He has a strange attraction to things with engines. He has names for his car, his lawnmower, even his dishwasher. The day he traded in his car he was almost in tears.
Etymology: motor (a machine, esp. one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts) + doter (be extremely and uncritically fond of)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-06-03: 06:56:00
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Contrapture
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kun-trap-chur
Sentence: I'd called him twice to dinner. There was a steaming plate of his favorite dish sitting before his empty seat at the table. Outside, the icy rain started coming down harder, yet Mark still hadn't come in. I looked out the window to find him tenderly tugging on the ropes attached to the tarp covering his old rust-bucket tractor, Bessie... and wiping off her wet spots. The evidence was clearly mounting that Mark had fallen victim to contrapture.
Etymology: contraption, rapture
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COMMENTS:
Great word. Even greater sentence - "wiping off her wet spots." You're a poet, Purple A. - doseydotes, 2008-03-27: 09:09:00
excellent purple - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-27: 11:27:00
Thanks Jabber and dosey. I always struggle with sentences. This one came easy, as it actually happened. - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-27: 12:11:00
wonderful word...easy to pronounce and remember! - spotthecat1, 2008-03-27: 13:40:00
Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 17:30:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
stache - 2008-03-27: 01:25:00
Have these always been called "verboticisms?"
Yes that's the word we use to describe our invented words. Of course you can also use "neologism". And I think we should create a subcategory for invented words with sexual undertones like your winning word today. It would be "verberoticisms". ~ James
Domenic- go frisk 'em.
galwaywegian - 2009-01-19: 10:08:00
very high standard today :D
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
gendiamJent - 2018-06-03: 14:27:00
Алмазное бурение за разумные деньги.
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