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'Santa won't come unless you clean up your desk!'

DEFINITION: To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats.

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Guiltimatum

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: gilt/i/may/tum

Sentence: Uh oh,here comes the guiltimatum. Cover your ears or you'll end up in therapy when you're older.

Etymology: guilt + ultimatum

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COMMENTS:

Very good! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-24: 15:50:00

Excellent! - Mustang, 2007-12-24: 22:01:00

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Motihate

MrDave2176

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: moh-ti-hate

Sentence: Iris was a world-class motihater with such gems as "If you don't clean your room I will sell you to the government for cloning experiments," and "The next time you bring home anything less than a 'C' on a paper I will have to crush your foot so you can draw a disability check for the rest of your life since you obviously won't earn enough to live on!"

Etymology: Moti(vate) + hate

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Shamanipulate

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /sha-muh-nip'-yuh-leyt/

Sentence: Vicky first learned how to shamanipulate while babysitting for her cousins, an effective way to get them to do what she wanted, and the art of shamanipulation still served her well when nogitiating with her boyfriend.

Etymology: sham/shame - a hoax or pretense (perhaps from "shame") / [shame] feeling of disgrace or guilt (from Old English, sceamu) + manipulate - to manage or influence skillfully (back formation from manipulation; from Latin, manus "hand")

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Sometimes its good to be naughty... - Tigger, 2007-12-30: 20:41:00

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Falsimpetus

Created by: KelleyToohey

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Motithreat

Created by: ZumZum

Pronunciation: mo-ti-threat

Sentence: When I can't find a good reason to make them do it, I always make some awful possible consequence and use it to motithreat these bastards.

Etymology: Moti - as in motivation Threate - well, you ain't that slow...

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Inspithreat

Created by: thejoshinator

Pronunciation: in-spi-thret

Sentence: The manager of the company inspithreatened his workers.

Etymology: Inspire + threat

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Inductricate

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: induc-trick-ate

Sentence: It was so easy for her to inductricate her husband into buying everything she wanted.

Etymology: inductricate: induc for induce + tric for trick + ate for the way those inducing tricks are taken in ... plus a play on the word indoctrinate

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Sinsperation

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sin spur a shun

Sentence: The thought of bunking with my kid brother was the only sinsperation I needed to clear off my bed when I cleaned my room!

Etymology: sin + inspiration

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Bullivate

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: boo l-ee-veyt

Sentence: Christine is very good at getting action out of people. She will bullivate her coworkers whenever she thinks they are getting complacent about doing her work.

Etymology: bully (a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people) + motivate (to give incentive to)

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Bederwachout

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: bed err wa chout

Sentence: She issued her bedderwachouts with such sickening regularity, the twins were tempted to tell Santa where to shove his ps3.

Etymology: better watch out, better not cry etc.

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COMMENTS:

I think the twins should be careful becaue she has bedderwachclout - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-24: 09:54:00

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