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DEFINITION: n. The mental state induced by the discovery your new husband, and your maid of honor, entangled in the satin sheets given to you as a wedding present by your grandmother. v. To catch your new husband in a close quarters with a close friend.

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Bridalpathology

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: bry dal path ol ogee

Sentence: It was a nightmare when Marey found her Groom Ed in bed with her bridesmaid, Fillymena...On the satin sheets that she had begat from her Grandmare, Mustang Sally, of all places and she did not like it one bit! She yelled until she was a little hoarse, okay, just a Quarterhoarse! She experienced Bridalpathology and found a need to harness her mane anxiety and buck the trend to overlook such horseplay. Of course, she knew that Ed had to sew his wild oats, the stud, but really...wasn't he more stable than that after becoming hitched? Spurred by the thoughts of a lengthy court battle and saddled with wrangling high legal fees, she decided divhorse was out of the question, even though he was no longer no pal-o-mino! She would instead pretend to curry Ed's favour, get into her Pinto, drive through the neigh-borhood gaits and go get her sire's Colt 45. No one was going to make a foal out of her! No one was going to rein on her parade or slow her gait, once she shod him, she would remane Appaloosa, whether he ended up in horsepital, gelding better or in an anonymous plod of land. She would live on thorough bread, seabiscuits and ponies of horse liniment if she had to and run off to Canter-bury. That was her tale and she was sticking to it...even if all the horse manure to be guilty!

Etymology: Bridal (of or relating to a wedding )& Pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition;the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases ) & Bridle Path (the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess;a road fit for riders, but not vehicles)

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A narrative that a Mustang would surely find equinable. A tail that even a neigh sayer would consider to be a whinnying entry. - Mustang, 2008-06-11: 07:47:00

Thanks, Mustang...glad it Triggered a Champion response in you. - Nosila, 2008-06-11: 21:45:00

Thanks for the horseplay. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 07:25:00

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Mattressidal

Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Mat-ress-idal

Sentence: Lisa felt positively mattressidal when she discovered her new husband Tony in a compromising position on the marriage bed with her maid of honor and 'best friend' Sue. And to top it all off they were using the black satin sheets bought by her rather 'racy' grandmother as a wedding gift!!

Etymology: Mattress (Fabric filled case used on a bed.)Arabic 'carpet or cushion'. + Suicidal(The intention to kill oneself) Latin sui 'of oneself' +caedere 'kill' = Mattressidal

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COMMENTS:

Great word! funny! - wordmeister, 2008-06-11: 00:18:00

great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-11: 12:13:00

Funny and creative. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 07:26:00

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Marrage

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mer/rage

Sentence: On finding her new husband and the maid of honour, she went into a state of marrage throwing and breaking everything she could get her hands on.

Etymology: marriage + rage

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COMMENTS:

I considered something similar to this before deciding it didn't really allude to the sheets or the cheats as well as other words might. Marrage, to the casual observer, may as well be a nondescript form of anger directed at one's spouse (to be). It lacks specifics. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 08:00:00

Great word, simple and succinct - you just have to stress the second syllable to get the full effect - try it - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 09:55:00

That's nice (^^), but ditto my previous comment regarding it being too generalised for the definition, and that it makes the assumption that the mental state induced would be one of anger, as opposed to shock, disappointment, disbelief etc. For me, assigning rage as the sole emotion here is myopic. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 11:23:00

methinks we have a psychiatrist in our midst - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 12:19:00

No, just a fool who's seen too many shrinks in his time. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 15:31:00

Certainly not a fool - good sense of humour though - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 19:54:00

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Groomforimprovement

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation:

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Wedshock

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: wedshäk

Sentence: Julie should have guessed that there was odd about her new husband’s insistence that her bff Joan go along on their honeymoon. Sure, there was a great discount for the added ticket sale but did they really need to share a room? Julie is now in wedshock. She discovered Joan and her new hubby showering together when she returned from shopping. They tried to say that they were just saving water but she’s not buying it. The only question now, divorce or wedGlock?

Etymology: wedlock (the state of being married) +shock (a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience)

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Trystcovery

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: trist-cov-er-y

Sentence: Jen was angered by the trystcovery of her new husband and her best friend tangled in the new satin sheets her grandmother had given her as a wedding gift. "Dammit," she thought, "now that they've been used I can't exchange them for the leopard print sheets I saw in the catalogue.

Etymology: tryst: an agreement between lovers to meet at a certain place and time + discovery: to discover, or learn for the first time + cover - as in bedlinen

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COMMENTS:

good word. Chuckled at the twist at the end! - splendiction, 2009-10-14: 18:59:00

good one Mrs. K.!! - mweinmann, 2009-10-15: 09:10:00

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Shitched

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sh-itch-t

Sentence: Not only was Coralie shitched, she was also shockled when she realised she was married to rake and would never be able to use the sheets her Nanna had given her.

Etymology: sh*t (exclamation of shock) + hitched (slang for married) (shock + shackled)

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COMMENTS:

love the layers in your words - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 12:22:00

petaj Maybe should have spelt this differently though sheetched - petaj, 2007-03-28: 05:07:00

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Adoltery

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: ah-dolt-er-ee

Sentence: When she caught them playing Ride the Baloney Pony at Camp Comeoniwannalaya, she was totally overcome with adoltery. How could she be so stupid? Afterall, she did see him retrieving wedding cake crumbs from the cleavage of her maid of honor at their wedding reception.

Etymology: adultery, dolt

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COMMENTS:

References to the pony and camp come with great respect for Burgess Meredith. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-27: 04:53:00

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Betraythal

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: bee-tray-thal

Sentence: John's act of betraythal was a body blow to poor Mary. Particularly as it was with own brother. It was seriously conjuglipitous.

Etymology: betrothal (a mutual promise to marry) + betryal (to be unfaithful or disloyal)

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Shagrin

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: shag + rin

Sentence: Oh, the shagrin I felt when I found them... well, it was more like "murderous rage," but that's hardly a verboticism.

Etymology: shag + chagrin

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COMMENTS:

Nicely done! - urbanwookie, 2007-04-01: 19:26:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-27: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by sunny09.
Thank you sunny09! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-14: 04:06:00
Today's definition was suggested by sheets. Thank you sheets. ~ James