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'Do I look okay?'

DEFINITION: To require constant reassurance, praise, and -- in emergency situations -- flattery, despite obvious qualifications and/or expertise.

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Flattesization

Created by: ChrisCarrk

Pronunciation: flat-ih-sigh-zay-shun

Sentence: Last minute flattesization was required before she went on stage.

Etymology: flatter-ization

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Fishment

Created by: JCrap

Pronunciation: Fish/mint

Sentence: When he complained to his friends that he wasn't good at anything he was really just fishmenting and wanted to boost his ego.

Etymology: To fish for compliments.

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Modestaphobia

Created by: Abbers

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Hypocentric

Created by: sir67

Pronunciation: hi poe sen trik

Sentence: I could tell Jill was hypocentric by her constant need of flattery.

Etymology: hypo - low, lacking centric - central

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Monopraisery

Created by: retrochronix

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Aptxiety

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: apt/zahy/i/tee

Sentence: Her psychiatrist diagnosed her problem as aptxiety.

Etymology: apt + anxiety

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Inadequirkacy

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Created by: aly22

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Etymology: inadequacy+quirky

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Selfscrew

Created by: kevinrio

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Sentence: Am I fat or do I selfscrew myself? Please be honest.

Etymology: self + screw

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Attentionwhoreness

Created by: KoolKow

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Vainarcissity

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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

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-08: 03:16:00
Hey Verbotomists, We have added a weekly stats feature, which shows top ten scoring words, and the player rankings by week. See: Weekly Stats.

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.