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DEFINITION: v. To find your one, true love but to be unable, or unwilling, to recognize it. n. A perfect match, warts and all.
Verboticisms
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Amourignorare
Created by: corinnecreason
Pronunciation: ah-mor-ig-nor-are
Sentence: To ignore love, or to be too ignorant to see it.
Etymology: Latin/Italian roots
Sowlmate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sow l mayt
Sentence: Porky did not recognize that Bess was his own, true sowlmate because he was sty-mied. When he finally realize what a swine and a boar he had been, he set his heart on bacon her his own.
Etymology: Soulmate (someone for whom you have a deep affinity; lifelong partner) & Sow (female swine)
Sloughlove
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sluff - luv
Sentence: Inez just would not take Tommy seriously. Tommy knew they were a perfect match in every way but he kept getting the sloughlove from her. Inez could not say what the problem was. She could find nothing wrong with Tommy, liked to spend time with him and felt attracted to him....she just couldn't put her finger on what was wrong.
Etymology: slough off + love + a play on the term "tough love" >>> slough off (discard as undesirable - love (be enamored or in love with)
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COMMENTS:
well-crafted word - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 13:28:00
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Heartofhearing
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: heart/of/hear/ing
Sentence: Jason just didn't listen to his inner feelings, his gut about Jenny, his best friend and confidant, always looking past her to the next disastrous girl-friend on the horizon. He was just heartofhearing.
Etymology: HEARTOFHEARING - play on hard of hearing
Imperaffection
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: impərəfekshən
Sentence: When they first met John & Jane were not attracted to each other. Neither is exactly a runway model but after hanging out for a while imperaffection set in. Beauty may only be skin deep but these two are happy down to their bones.
Etymology: imperfect (faulty) + affection (a gentle feeling of fondness or liking)
Counterpartner
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: counter partner - (noun for a perfect match)
Sentence: Peter had the harebrained idea to invite a bunch of honey bunnies to his hare ball, hoping to find his true love among them. Peter, in coat'n'tails, looked very debonhare, not at all like the the other harelequins. Making a haremonic progression among the lovely honey bunnies, he approached Jean Harelow, the sexiest hare piece of all. She smiled, immediately attracted by his hare raising charms. "My what a beautiful hare dress you're wearing! I love your blonde hare style," Peter gushed, giving her his stale old harelines. The whiffs of bad air, from his hare lips, twitched her nose up. She stared down at him, giving him the silent treatment, and a real hare cut. By a hare's breath, she was unwilling to give his other qualities their proper hare due, even though he was her perfect counterpartner.
Etymology: COUNTERPART, PARTNER. Counterpart - either of two parts that fit together or are complementary. Partner - either member of an established couple in a love relationship.
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COMMENTS:
Another wiled hare story! (I don't think there is anything left for tomorrow ... might not make my goal ... of a wiled hair for every day this week.) - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 01:24:00
Love your hare-raising stories...they are 14 carrot! Reminds me of some bunnies we once had...Rabbit Redford, Bunny Goodman and Scarlett O'Hare! - Nosila, 2009-02-12: 01:33:00
counter could also be opposed to - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-12: 13:17:00
absolutely correct Jabberwocky. It so obvious I didn't even give it a thought. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 13:24:00
guess the word could fit both parts of the definition Jabberwocky ... thanks for pointing that out! Now blow in my ear and give me a brain transplant, so I won't be such an air head, or should that be harehead again! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 13:45:00
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Incofatuation
Created by: rachelbree
Pronunciation: (in-cO-phat-U-A-shon)
Sentence: The dull pig was struck with incofatuation. He was unable to see the one other pig who would make him happy.
Etymology: In: in, into co: together fat: most rewarding part
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COMMENTS:
A mix of incoherent and infatuation. - rachelbree, 2012-02-13: 14:59:00
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Obloveious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ob luv ee us
Sentence: It was like the story of Pigmalion. Prof.Henry Piggins (he of the Swine Lake and Ham-let fame) was obloveious to the fact that his protegee, Miss Eliza Sueylittle (as played by Miss Piggy in the Hollywood movie version) had turned from an experiment into his one true love. Although he was much older than her (his nickname was Jurassic Pork)and an old boar, he was sty-mied that she had turned into sow beautiful a creation. (From a sow's ear into a silk purse, some would say. They would be linked forever and have an oinkredible relationship.
Etymology: Oblivious (unmindful,inattentive) & Love (any object of warm affection or devotion)
Disinfatuatious
Created by: kathleenlarry
Pronunciation: dis un fat u a shus
Sentence: The mans love for the woman was disinfatuated becuase of the constant ignorance from her.
Etymology: dis meaning not, infatuated- to be filled with a passion of love,
Whenpigsfly
Created by: nicoleorndorff
Pronunciation: wen-pigz-flaeh
Sentence: I will love you whenpigsfly.
Etymology: when- a word used to describe time pigs- an animal found on a farm fly- the action of levitating off the ground for a long period of time
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Today's definition was suggested by verbotomy. Thank you verbotomy. ~ James