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DEFINITION: A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships.

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Disghabustitsing

Created by: pwincess9430

Pronunciation: disc-hab-ust-it-sing

Sentence: basically discusting + habit in one really long word

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Idiotsyncrasy

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: ihd-ee-uht-SIHNGK-ruh-see

Sentence: Alex's idiotsyncrasy of ending every sentence with "um, but, yeah..." drove his date off very fast.

Etymology: idiot + idiosyncrasy

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Good word- pretty much the one I was looking for! I used "hideosyncrasy" in my sentence but also consider odiosyncrasy, whimsiosyncrasy, insidiocrasy. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-15: 09:04:00

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Idiosyncrazy

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: id-E-O-sin-craze-E

Sentence: After dating only 2 months, it soon became apparent that his incessant need to separate M&Ms by color before eating them would soon be the idiosnycrazy that would end their relationship.

Etymology: idiosyncrasy (a peculiar characteristic) + crazy (for the odd behavior and also, how the habit drives other people crazy)

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COMMENTS:

Good word Pretty much the word I was looking for! I used hideosyncrasy in my sentence, but also considered "odiosyncrasy, whimsiosyncrasy, insidiosyncrasy - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-15: 09:07:00

...also "idioticsyncrasy." - KristinA, 2007-08-15: 09:12:00

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Unattractic

Created by: Metalflower

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Sentence: The fact that Susan was tapping her fingernails on her teeth when she was bored was such an unattractic to Frank, that he ended the relationship after 5 happy years.

Etymology: unattractive, tic

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Stupiditic

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: stew pid it ick

Sentence: In or around the third month of thwe relationship, she realised that what seemed at first like an endearing gesture, winking at her whenever he finished a sentence, was a stupiditic. she realsied now that the only reason he wore platform bootswas to stop his knuckles scraping off the ground as he walked.

Etymology: stupidity, tic

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Spammettique

Created by: mythman

Pronunciation: spamm-eh-TEEK

Sentence: His excessive morning gas became a spametique blockout her morning-urge.

Etymology: Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a soundtrack "SPAM-SPAM-SPAM-SPAM ..." that blocked out the desired dialogue.

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Breakfastcharms

Created by: Paradox

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Sentence: His soft snoring while sleeping very rapidly turned out to be a breakfastcharm.

Etymology: A combination of "break" (as in "breaking the news"), fast and charms, so not to be confused with breakfast (as in, food) and charms put together.

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Automatetic

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Aww-toe-MATE-tick

Sentence: Sylvia knew that Dewayne's personal scratching was an involutary habitual response to sitting in one place too long, but the sheer repetitiveness of his automatetic was beginning to inspire her to sharpen all the knives, scissors, and axes in the house.

Etymology: Auto (prefix meaning "without thought or effort") + mate (significant other) + tic (muscle twitch)

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COMMENTS:

ha, got my vote...great sentence - remistram, 2007-08-15: 09:40:00

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