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DEFINITION: v. tr. To seek appreciation, support, and/or love by trying to get people to feel sorry for you. n. Someone who believes that if you don't feel sorry for them, you do not love them.
Verboticisms
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Palthetic
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: pall the tik
Sentence: Her palthetic approach to acquiring friends left her with severe neck problems from shoulder crying, and the largest collections of unanswered phone calls and used handkerchiefs in the world, or so she had been told by that nice lady from the Guinness Book of Recordsduring their three hour conversation.
Etymology: pal pathetic.
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COMMENTS:
I wasn't sure if you were trying for pal or pall in your etymology - both work well - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-20: 11:06:00
Excellent verbot. - Banky, 2008-02-20: 13:56:00
Your sentence and word were so good the sorrow in them almost gave me heart palpitations! Outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:17:00
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Compassionhate
Created by: Dougalistic
Pronunciation: Com-pash-shun-hate
Sentence: Jane was very compassionhate towards 'prima donna' Bill about his cut on his arm. She done this a thousand times with him already but he still never learns. Jane is planning to take a chain saw to him next time if he moans about getting cut by everything he get's in contact with.
Etymology: Compassionate - Showing feelings of sympathy for the suffering of others, often with a desire to help. Hate - transitive verb to dislike somebody or something intensely, often in a way that evokes feelings of anger, hostility, or animosity.
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COMMENTS:
Terrifyingly good! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:42:00
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Sympathove
Created by: leemarquis
Pronunciation: sym-path-uv
Sentence: John was looking for sympathove as he explained what a bad day he had had.
Etymology: sympathy + love
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COMMENTS:
Touchingly good etymology! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:20:00
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Sympatheticention
Created by: CanadianAndyCapp
Pronunciation: Sim-Path-etic-en-shun
Sentence: When he had run out of ways to legitimately get the attention of his parents, the spoiled brat resorted to sympatheticention; but without success!
Etymology: Combined form of Sympathy, Pathetic, and Attention
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COMMENTS:
Tongue-trippingly good triple play! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 03:10:00
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Heartfelled
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: hart-feld
Sentence: Lonely and unloved, Charity Ann of Atlanta, lived within the Heart of Tricksy. She believed any type of caring, was better than no love at all. So, she would tell sorrifool and pitifool lies about her health and finances, to get heartfelled sympathy.
Etymology: A play on heartfelt. A blending of heart, felt, fooled, and felled. Heart: in the sense of love, warmth, affection, caring. Felt: past tense of feeling. Fooled: gained by trickery. Felled: in the sense of being captured.
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COMMENTS:
All the words in my etymology have more than one meaning, so I listed only those I intended. If the other meanings play around in your mind, well just consider it a bonus of mined or mind fun! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 02:54:00
nice combination - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-20: 15:50:00
Simple, everybody combination! brings to mind words such as 'heart-slain' & 'heart-blood' (Shakespeare, I think ?? Luv 'Heart of Tricksy' also. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-20: 16:53:00
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Conpassion
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: kon-pash-shun
Sentence: Ted realized that Amy was laying the conpassion on thick this week as he finished resodding her lawn in the name of love.
Etymology: con: swindle + passion: adrent affection also play on word compassion.
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COMMENTS:
very nice word liberty - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-20: 11:10:00
Sentence and word fits so many realtionships! Good word! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:10:00
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Pityfool
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: pit-e-fool
Sentence: Dave thought Jill was pityfool, asking him to massage her feet every day, so she could get her shoes on.
Etymology: pityful/fool
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COMMENTS:
like it. - galwaywegian, 2008-02-20: 13:17:00
Great Creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 13:59:00
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Sreey
Created by: pauzle
Pronunciation: Sr-E
Sentence: You just had very painful surgery and you think I should have gotten you something to celebrate it being over? And now you think I hate you? You're so sreey!
Etymology: Sorry+Seek
Ohwoekissme
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: oh/woe/kiss/me
Sentence: Joan played the ohwoekissme card once too often and ended up with a cold sore
Etymology: woe + oh woe is me + kiss
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COMMENTS:
Stunningly, punningly, funny! Ingeniously Great! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:45:00
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Lesmiserablenabler
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: lay/miz/ur/awbul/enabler
Sentence: Sally was a lesmiserablenabler. She pulled on everyone's heartstrings to get the sympathy she craved.
Etymology: les Miserables + enabler + misery or miserable
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COMMENTS:
If there were fertility drugs for creating words ... I say it gave you quadruplets! Tongue-twistingly funny and clever. All kidding aside ... Exceptional Creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 13:46:00
Very clever! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-20: 15:58:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metro1. Thank you metro1. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-02-20: 14:58:00
There are more words for different types of snow than there are for different types of love. Your definition helped us create some other words, for the one, you defined so well. Thank you metro1!
metro1 - 2008-02-20: 16:11:00
Thank you Silveryaspen. I am definitely impressed by all the words people have invented. And I intend to share them with the mepathetic cupidhole who so pityfoolishly inspired it, but only if she says pityplease.