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DEFINITION: To require constant reassurance, praise, and -- in emergency situations -- flattery, despite obvious qualifications and/or expertise.
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Noesteemistis
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: noesteemistis hit her again as her husband merely commented that she looked fine.
Etymology:
Insecutity
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: in-sec-cute-it-ee
Sentence: Mary's insecutity always got worse when James was around.
Etymology: insecurity - cute
Recare
Created by: Kevcom2007
Pronunciation: Reee/Cair
Sentence: Before the Prom dance, Samantha needed lots of recare so that she could feel self confidence in her body structure.
Etymology: Relief + Care
Distrionics
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: DIS-tree-ON-iks
Sentence: "The valedictorian, going through severe distrionics, continually called his professor to have his grade point average read to him over the phone."
Etymology: Distrust, coupled with Histrionics.
Floutdoubt
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: flowt-dowt
Sentence: I do wish she wouldn't floutdoubt so often, murmured Sebastian to himself, as he tried to find yet another way of telling the size 6 model he was dating that not only wasn't she fat, she would have to walk round in a shower to get wet
Etymology: flout (to show) + doubt
Vainarcissity
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: " vay-nar-sis-aty"
Sentence: Agitated by her vainarcissity, he proceeded to tell his girlfriend how ugly she looked.
Etymology: from the kosher deli
Praince
Created by: RyxEuclie
Pronunciation: Pray-n-ce
Sentence: I don't like her, she's too praince.
Etymology:
Craital
Created by: Divakar
Pronunciation: KRAY-tull
Sentence: Even after being told how beautiful she was by her boyfriend John, Jill was still craital about her appearance.
Etymology: craindre (french for "fear")
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wordmeister - 2006-12-08: 15:42:00
Who has the best word of the day? Any opinions?
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-08: 16:25:00
are you requiring some constant reassurance wordmeister - perhaps some flatterybattery or phladulation and why isn't verbotomy asking??
wordmeister - 2006-12-08: 17:32:00
Yes Jabberwocky that's it -- self-phladulation.
wordmeister - 2006-12-08: 17:36:00
And I see that my score has gone up since I asked, so apparently it's working.
Stevenson0 - 2006-12-08: 17:51:00
confphladulations wordmeister
wordmeister - 2006-12-08: 18:00:00
Hey Stevenson0, Oh thank you, but surely you're not suffering from Aptxiety? Check out last weeks stats -- your word, "Coiffolgy", is the "Word of the week"! So all my confphladulations are directed to you.