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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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Fishwordy
Created by: r3m0t
Pronunciation: Fish + wordy
Sentence: She's so fishwordy that it's just agitating to have her around.
Etymology: Fish (from "fishing for compliments") + word + y
Divaitis
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: dee-vah-eye-tis
Sentence: Molly had sucumbed to divaitis and needed constant reassurance that she was the best surgeon in the hospital.
Etymology: diva (talented but conceited person) + itis (a condition)
Flategious
Created by: zack2981
Pronunciation: flah-TEE-gee-us
Sentence: Despite her smarts and excellent rack, Helen was quite flategious.
Etymology:
Mediotekht
Created by: msokoloffster
Pronunciation: Mee - Dee - Oh - Tekt
Sentence: My blind date forced me to mediotekht; we never saw each other again.
Etymology: Unknown...
Strokego
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Stro-kego
Sentence: I strokegoed her for most of the night, despite the fact every man in the bar hit on her.
Etymology: Stroke+ego
Phladulation
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: fla-du-la-shun
Sentence: After the Doctor diagnosed his wife's need for phladulation, John knew he has to tell his wife she was beautiful three times a day, or all hell would break loose...
Etymology: phlattery + adulation
Obsiquery
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: uhb-sEE-kweer-ee
Sentence: Sally's obsiqueries were sweet at first but as her insecurities overtook her accomplishments they became downright annoying
Etymology: obsiquious: sycophantic, flattering, cringing, submissive + query to ask
Insecuritease
Created by: aoife
Pronunciation: 'in-sek-yer-a-teez'
Sentence: 'John freaked out before his presentation and securiteasing everyone in the room, even though he's the best speaker in the company.'
Etymology: 'insecurity' + 'tease'
Flattesization
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: flat-ih-sigh-zay-shun
Sentence: Last minute flattesization was required before she went on stage.
Etymology: flatter-ization
Comments:
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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.