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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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Sympathadore
Created by: mothergoose
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COMMENTS:
Nice creation. It would mean so much more if you'd share a sentence and etymology, too! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:52:00
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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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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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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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Symper
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Sim - pur
Sentence: Thelma has a very low threshold of tolerance for pain or discomfort and when she feels others aren't 'feeling her pain' sufficiently she'll symper for attention until someone offers some kind of comfort.
Etymology: blend of sympathy and whimper
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COMMENTS:
Right on the definition! Has tons of appeal, perhaps because of the power in those two words, and the simplicity in the result of your blending of them. Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 03:02:00
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Cupidole
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: kyoo-pee-dohl
Sentence: Roxie believed that the bonds of matrimony were like any others bonds -you suffer their pain together. And during times of cupidole, when the vicissitudes of life were at their worst, it always seemed that for Bob's benefit, she mondegreened the song, "Cupid" (Sam Cooke) by singing: "Cupid please hear my cry, and let your harrow fly, straight through my lover's heart for me."
Etymology: CUPIDOLE: Blend of Cupid(God of Love)& Dole: sorrow, lamentations, grief. HARROW: An exclamation of distress, call for succour. The ancient Norman hue and cry. " Harrow and well away!" 2. pain, distress, affliction.
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COMMENTS:
this would have been perfect for Valentine's Day - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-20: 11:09:00
Very evocotive creation! Her cue(s) in cupid, the stu-pity in the 'upid'y of it,and thev hole of pity she fell into at the end. Your creations are like a goldmine, or is that a word mine! As usual ... Extraordinary! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:41:00
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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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Martyrdumchum
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mar tir dum chum
Sentence: After Walter had spent an exhausting day martyrdumchumming with Hazel, she served him up her favourite snack: whine and cheese with a chaser of gripe water. Hazel, you see, was a travel agent who specialized in Guilt Trips. In her spare time, Hazel also drove a Waaambulance!
Etymology: martyr (suffering for a cause) & martyrdom (any experience that causes intense suffering) & dumb (lacking intelligence) & chum (close friend who accompanies someone in their activities)
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COMMENTS:
So many great verboticisms! Exceptionally funny! Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 02:57:00
I like It! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-20: 16:23:00
Is it to die for??? - Nosila, 2008-02-22: 23:57:00
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Sadforme
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: sad-form (or) sad-for-me
Sentence: Jackie assumed her boyfriend didn't love her because he never felt bad for her, he thought she was such a sadforme.
Etymology: sad + for + me (or) sad + form
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COMMENTS:
Great choice of words to combine ... short and simple but right to the point! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 14:02:00
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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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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.