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'Whaahh! I have a pimple!'

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.

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Sreey

pauzle

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

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Pityhole

Created by: Filthy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: At first I felt sorry for her, but then I realized she was just a pityhole; she would always see me as a bad person for not caring enough.

Etymology:

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Fidelpity

Created by: Banky

Pronunciation: fie-DELL-pit-tee

Sentence: After the 22nd time Mark's father had died in under two years, Dana realized she had to turn a deaf ear to his desperate pleas for fidelpity. She stormed out of his apartment, slamming the door behind her. Mark sat motionless on the couch, until he heard tires squealing away from the building. He stood, slowly, and walked to the bedroom. He strapped his right arm to his torso using an Ace bandage, carefully slipped into the Vietnam era Army fatigues he'd bought at the surplus store, and carefully applied the mohair mustache with spirit gum. After gently easing the wheelchair into the trunk, he headed to the Peppermint Hippo for a night of free lapdances.

Etymology: fidelity + pity

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COMMENTS:

As always, I can't wait to see what will happen next in your sentence. Always a surprise twist to the ending. He sure knew how to fiddle around to get pity! Another marvelous creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:28:00

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Comflirt

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: kum-flurt

Sentence: The large angry-looking bug bite and subsequent broken nail and run in her stocking had transformed her into a whino. At the party, she proceeded to comflirt around the room until no one was left except for the dog, who humped her leg in sympathy.

Etymology: comfort, flirt

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COMMENTS:

Unique etymology! Great pathos in your sentence ... you really captured the pity and sorrow in the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 13:52:00

good one! I like the sentence. - toadstool57, 2008-02-20: 14:34:00

oh tidings of comflirt and joy - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-20: 15:52:00

Thanks Jabber... nothing like having a Christmas song stuck in your head while you're paying off the holiday spending spree. - purpleartichokes, 2008-02-20: 18:08:00

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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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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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Mitleidfreude

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈmɪtlaɪdˌfrɔɪd/ /MITT-lahyd-Froyd/

Sentence: Mitleidfreude is somehow more socially acceptable than its nastier cousins schadenfreude, neidfreude, and dummheitfreude.

Etymology: from Ger., lit. "pity-joy," from mitleid "pity" + freude "happy"

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COMMENTS:

Surprising etymology! Now I know that mit came from mitleid ... but I thought leid was a play on layed ... and freude was a play on fraud and Freud! Didn't know what to make of the cousins! (chuckling) Kudos for your ingenuity! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 02:35:00

Wunderbar! Great approach to create your verboticism. Makes me think of german words with a "toe-hold" in English, such as: "weltschmer" & "sprachgeful". - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-20: 16:41:00

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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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Woezmi

Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: wooz-mee

Sentence: You always woezmi about your little problems, give me a break.

Etymology: woe-is-me

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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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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-02-20: 00:01:00
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.