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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.
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Jiltrait
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: jill-trate (rhymes with filtrate)
Sentence: Hogan wondered why his relationships never lasted; finally a friend told him about all of his bad jiltraits.
Etymology: jilt + trait
Pignobility
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: pig/no/bil/it/ee
Sentence: His pattern of pignobility left her with a fetid feeling that their relationship would not survive a week.
Etymology: pig (metaphor for dirty) + ignobility (offensive behavior)
Vexappeal
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: vex ap peel
Sentence: Rodney's bad habits were finally starting to grate on Stephanie. His sex appeal had long since become a vexappeal for her. She should have known when he told her that his family motto was, "You can pick your nose, but n ot your relatives..."
Etymology: Vex (irk, annoy) & Appeal (attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates) Wordplay on Sex appeal (attractiveness to the opposite sex)
Pennykilla
Created by: shrimp
Pronunciation: penni-killa
Sentence: a times of a romantic evening, the dirty looks of the girl will pennykilla my heart
Etymology: first thing I thought of when I read the description :-)
Ewsik
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: EEeeeeeeewwwwww SICK!
Sentence: Julie's ewsik has gotten to the point that every time she clears her throat I wanna grab her by the hair and smash her face in. "I think it's cute." You would. She's all yours.
Etymology: My xgf used to say eww sick all the time.
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COMMENTS:
ew rock! - Nosila, 2009-09-10: 01:50:00
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Vexclination
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: vex-clin-a-ashun
Sentence: His vexclinations make him near insufferable.
Etymology: from vex + inclination
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)
Habituex
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Ha - bit - u - x
Sentence: Tony's crotch scratching forced Amber to make him a habituex.
Etymology: Habit - trait, often annoying u - your trait ex - previous girl/boyfriend, spouse
Irrimating
Created by: MrDigdigdig
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Bob's nose picking quickly became irrimating to Linda
Etymology:
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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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.