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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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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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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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Mepathy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: me/pathy
Sentence: Jane always has stories of woe about herself and her bad luck. She constantly seeks mepathy from anyone who will listen to her unfortunate encounters with life.
Etymology: me (HEY! It's ALWAYS about ME!! And why shouldn't it be?!?!?!) + empathy
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COMMENTS:
Eggzellent!! - Mustang, 2008-02-20: 08:07:00
that might cause people to weepathy - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-20: 08:47:00
love it! - galwaywegian, 2008-02-20: 13:17:00
It has it all! Says it all! Simply Fantastic! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 13:58:00
Great word. Brings to mind a couple of "pathy" words i have come across recently: "Ambipathy" a mixture of sympathy & antipathy & "Tidapathy" : a coinage based on Malay, "tidapah", (tidak) meaning "never mind". - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-20: 16:22:00
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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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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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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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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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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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Tragedevotion
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /traj-i-dee-VO-shun/
Sentence: Jerry thought that his date Sandra was going to cry — she had complained about her bad day all through dinner, spilled wine on her dress, and then, while leaving the restaurant, she'd twisted her ankle. "But at least I have you. You're the only good thing in my life," she said, obviously seeking tragedevotion, as Jerry carried her down the street. He thought that Sandra was a klutz, and he found her helplessness rather pitiful, but oddly enough her ploy was working, and now he was more attracted to her than ever.
Etymology: Tragedy - a drama characterized by disasterous events (from Greek, tragodia "a dramatic poem") + Devotion - ardent affection and dedication (ancient Latin, devotionem "dedication by a vow")
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COMMENTS:
Wow! Great depth of feeling! Right on the definition! Fantastic! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-20: 02:44:00
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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.