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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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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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Vainarcissity

IHeartKiwiTarts

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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Confidented

Created by: wysware

Pronunciation: con-fi-den-ted

Sentence: I used to be quite certain but now i'm confidented

Etymology: confidence (certainty) dented (damaged)

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Praince

Created by: RyxEuclie

Pronunciation: Pray-n-ce

Sentence: I don't like her, she's too praince.

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Vaccuumesteem

ennia

Created by: ennia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Because of her constant need for resassurance, she was diagnosed with Vaccuumesteem.

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Flatterchatter

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: flatter/chatter

Sentence: As Dorothy Dillytop adjusted her rechargeable battery-lit tiara before sitting down at her keyboard, she had to admit that she was quite uncomfortable if not a tad morose unless she received her daily dose of "flatterchatter".

Etymology: c. 12th century, from the Fr. "flater" - to stroke with the hand, or to caress, and "chateren" - to twitter or gossip

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Insecutity

Created by: babel

Pronunciation: in-sec-cute-it-ee

Sentence: Mary's insecutity always got worse when James was around.

Etymology: insecurity - cute

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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

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Modestaphobia

Created by: Abbers

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Splatterflatter

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

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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.