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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.
Verboticisms
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Mustuness
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: must + you + ness
Sentence: They were a team – they thought and spoke as one. Whenever she started a sentence he would finish it. Until one day, when his mustuness finally drove her to a break up, he kissed himself off before he realized it.
Etymology: "must you!" + an ending
Breakfastcharms
Created by: Paradox
Pronunciation:
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.
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.
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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Pickassdillo
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: pick-ass-dill-o
Sentence: Gordon's wriggling had gone from a peccadillo to a pickassdillo evidenced by continuous bum scratching by the time Jemma stormed out the door.
Etymology: peccadillo + a disgusting habit
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COMMENTS:
grrrrreat! - galwaywegian, 2007-08-15: 05:29:00
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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
Unattractic
Created by: Metalflower
Pronunciation:
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
Endearritating
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: en-deer-it-ay-ting
Sentence: she found his crazy laugh endearritating
Etymology: endearing, irritating
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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COMMENTS:
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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