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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
Verboticisms
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Intimesstation
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His intimesstation of uncontrollable gas had become a black cloud in their relationship.
Etymology: intimate + mess + irritation
Vexitating
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: vex-i-ta-ting
Sentence: Sam was the most vexitating man I ever knew. He had more bad habits than an alcoholic nun.
Etymology: vex: to cause annoyance by minor irritations + irritating: chafe; aggravating
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COMMENTS:
Lol. I\'ve known a few Sams too. - artr, 2009-09-09: 12:21:00
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Thornication
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: θôrnikāshən
Sentence: Charlie is very good at getting under the skin of his co-workers. He doesn’t mean to be annoying but his habitual activities amount to thornication.
Etymology: thorn (a thorn in someone’s side - a source of continual annoyance or trouble) + fornication (two people not married to each other having sex)
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COMMENTS:
love it...so prickly! - Nosila, 2011-02-10: 23:55:00
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Jirkfectation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: jirk fek tay shun
Sentence: Why did Lacey ever think that George's habit of using chauvinistic terms of endearment was cute? His familiarity had seemed quaint when he called her Cutie or Babe or Toots or Doll. She was beginning to think he could not remember her actual first name. His jirkfectation was equally applied to all women he encountered. But he went too far in calling the Mother Superior of the local convent, Hottie. Lacey reckoned his punishment in Hell would be a term of enfearment.
Etymology: Jerk (a dull stupid fatuous person) & Irk (to irritate or vex)& Affectation (a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display)
Cattribute
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kat trib yewt
Sentence: When Jimmy Rattner met Catrina, he thought her devotion to cats was cute. One of her main cattributes was wearing jewellery, clothing, hair accessories, purses and shoes with cat designs on them. After never seeing her in anything but cat couture, he started to grow tired of it all. She finally invited him in for a coffee & a KitKat, only for him to discover her other cattribute was to own 20 cats in a one-bedroom apartment. So used his main rattribute and ran out on her without a word, never to call again. Rats! she thought...Cat must have got his tongue.
Etymology: Cat (feline mammal) & Attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Procrasstination
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: Pro-crass-tin-ay-shun
Sentence: Sometimes procrastination occurs in older relationships when the initial "cute" factor wears off.
Etymology: Crass (gross) + Procrastination (Put off till later... as in later in the relationship)
Relationbug
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: re-lei-sjon- bug
Sentence: Sandra was in debug-mode; It was time to remove Jack's relationbug's or terminate the program!
Etymology: relationship - a strange interface between java.human.man() and java.human.woman() ************ bug - undocumented feature in a microsoft-application.
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COMMENTS:
I like it. It even works without the CS reference, as in "to bug someone." It'd be better as two words, but we don't really have that option here. Gets my vote anyway. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:46:00
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Hateabit
Created by: megmehtab
Pronunciation: heɪt ˈhæbɪt
Sentence: I am not going to bother you with my hateabit anymore.
Etymology: Taken from simple english; hate + habit = hateabit A habit you dislike now.
Shidosyncrasy
Created by: Erik1
Pronunciation: Shid-e-o-syn-crow-see
Sentence: For shidosyncrasy the poison was in the dose.
Etymology: Shutdown (or perhaps another word) ;) + idiosyncrasy
Vexclination
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: vex-clin-a-ashun
Sentence: His vexclinations make him near insufferable.
Etymology: from vex + inclination
Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.