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'You still have that twinkle in your eye.'

DEFINITION: v. To love someone forever and a day, despite the fact that they have some rather annoying and seemingly intractable imperfections. n. A couple which has been together for a long, long, long time.

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Dinospouse

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dahy-nuh-spaʊs

Sentence: Jim and his wife have been together for quite some time. They have a good sense of humor about their relationship. They will often refer to each other as their dinospouse.

Etymology: dinosaur (any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile) + spouse (either member of a married pair)

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Perpetualove

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: pehr-PET-you-luv

Sentence: Even into their advancing senior years Clarence and Bertha enjoyed each others company and maintained a robust romantic relationship which Clarence celebrated by providing Bertha with expensive, decadent chocolates and Bertha 'encouraged' by spiking his evening cocoa with viagra, preserving both his vitality and his ego...and they lived blissfully ever after.

Etymology: Blend of perpetual and love

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great sentence - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:29:00

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Tolerove

Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: tŏl'ər-ŭv

Sentence: My mother disapproved. My father was disappointed. My best friends all thought I was crazy. Not as crazy as they thought she was, but crazy nonetheless. Had I not been suffering from a particularly tenacious infection of tolerove, perhaps their opinions would have meant something to me. "The Girl friend from hell", they called her, and not without reason. We'd broken up and gotten back together on a semi-weekly basis for years now. She was prone to hysterical fits, and manic outbursts; the occasional month-long binge of compulsive lying was always a treat. I had only received advice to end it, but I couldn't. The tolerove had grown, and spread into every aspect of my being. I had become so accustomed to the madness that resistance seemed futile. It consumed me so deeply, that now I considered it likely to be inoperable, and I resigned. We were likely to be tolerovers forever.

Etymology: Tolerance (the capacity to endure hardship or pain) + Love (A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection) ...Tolerove sounds a little like "cholera" (An acute infectious disease)

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Methuselovers

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: mah thoo zeh lah vers

Sentence: Searching through my sketchy knowledge of history, looking for the couple who were together the longest, here is what I found. According to the King James version of Genesis 5:25-27, "And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech. And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died." Wish it said something about his wife. If his wife was still giving him children when he was 782 years old, theirs was an enduring passion and love!!! Perhaps, they held the record for the longest marriage on earth. In some religions, marriage vows are taken saying "Till death do us part." There is at least one religion, where the marriage vows say "For all time and eternity." Perhaps Noah and his wife, after hundreds of years together on earth, are still together! Methuselah has become an eponym for any person who lives an extra-ordinarily long time. Ergo: Methuselovers would be a couple that has been together a long time, so long they might even be together after death, and perhaps as Johnny Mathis sang "until the twelfth of never."

Etymology: A blending of the eponym methuselah and lovers.

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COMMENTS:

Sweet Valentine's Day to all. Here's the song lyrics referred to above. You ask how much I need you, must I explain? I need you, oh my darling, like roses need rain. You ask how long I'll love you; I'll tell you true: Until the twelfth of never, I'll still be loving you. Hold me close, never let me go. Hold me close, melt my heart like April snow. I'll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom; I'll love you till the clover has lost its perfume. I'll love you till the poets run out of rhyme, Until the twelfth of never and that's a long, long time. Hold me close, never let me go. Hold me close, melt my heart like April snow. I'll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom; I'll love you till the clover has lost its perfume. I'll love you till the poets run out of rhyme, Until the twelfth of never and that's a long, long time. Until the twelfth of never and that's a long, long time. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-13: 01:14:00

very nice and apropos for Valentine's Day - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:28:00

I love it Methusiastically! - Nosila, 2009-02-14: 23:13:00

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Habitter

Created by: simoneshin

Pronunciation: hah-bitter

Sentence: her mouth formed this habitter smile when -once again- he came in and delightfully exited gave her the red roses. she thought she mentioned hating red roses over a thousand times. o well getting all dolled up and start hanging in bars getting drunk and hooked up didn't seem like the best idea also. so she gratefully accepted and told that he didn't have tot do that. really he didn't...

Etymology: habit + bitter

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Valentimes

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: val en tymes

Sentence: Catherine & Eddy had been together for over 50 years. Through good times and bad, they remained in love and were perpetual valentimes.

Etymology: Valentine (a sweetheart chosen to receive a greeting on Saint Valentine's Day) & Times (ages, long periods)

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Lovever

Created by: sherhzade

Pronunciation: luv-ever

Sentence: Looking into Mat's eyes, Gina knew that she had found her lovever.

Created by: mzzmee265

Pronunciation: couple-ji-tus

Sentence: We are a couplegitus couple because we been together for a very, very long time now.

Etymology: couple- to be together, as of dating, married.

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Giyumart

Created by: Moonstar

Pronunciation: Guy-U-Mart

Sentence: Teresa, old and shriveled, looked up with deep love into the eyes of her husband, Tom. She loved him, and he her, even after nearly fifty years of marriage. She knew she would always be his GiyuMart, and he hers.

Etymology: Gi, as in give * yu, as in you *M, as in my * art, as in heart: GiyuMart= Give you My Heart.

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Matrimoany

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mat rim moan ee

Sentence: It's true, thought Louise, marriage is like a deck of cards. You start out with a diamond and 2 hearts and after many years of matrimoany, all you want is a club and a spade!

Etymology: Matrimony (marriage) & Moan (complain, whine)

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Foreverbearance

Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: for EV er BEAR ance

Sentence: My mother used to say, "Forbearance is one thing, but when I married your father, it was foreverbearance. I will foreverbear whatever I need to, until death do us part."

Etymology: FORBEARANCE: good natured tolerance in the face of provocation FOREVER:

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COMMENTS:

nice word - galwaywegian, 2009-02-13: 09:29:00

very sweet - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:22:00

Very nice word, terrific sentiment. - Mustang, 2009-02-13: 19:16:00

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Togetherlasting

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: too - geth - ur - las - ting

Sentence: George and Anita had a togetherlasting love. They had been together forever and it looked like it would last a lifetime. As they hobbled along, with their cane and walker, they still could not take their eyes off each other.

Etymology: Together and Everlasting >> Together (in each other's company,with cooperation and interchange) Everlasting (ageless: continuing forever or indefinitely)

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COMMENTS:

so many sweet stories today - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:30:00

Wonderful word! Will use it a lot. Brings to mind the line from a great love song ... 'ageless and evergreen' - silveryaspen, 2009-02-13: 13:17:00

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Lovegevity

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ləvjevətē

Sentence: They may not be the perfect couple. There might be bickering. They each might have a boatload of petty annoyances. They might not have all the answers but what they do have is lovegevity. They have learned to forgive and forget. Of course as forgetting gets easier and easier the forgiving becomes automatic.

Etymology: love (an intense feeling of deep affection) + longevity (long life)

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COMMENTS:

Are you really forgiving if you can't remember what you were pissed about? ;) - wayoffcenter, 2009-02-13: 07:16:00

Great word! - Mustang, 2009-02-13: 19:15:00

Love lovegevity! - Nosila, 2009-02-14: 23:11:00

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Perpetulove

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: per-PET-yew-luv

Sentence: Even into their advancing senior years Willard and Beatrice enjoyed each others company and maintained a robust perpetulove which Clarence celebrated by providing Bertha with expensive, decadent chocolates and Bertha 'encouraged' by spiking his evening cocoa with viagra, preserving both his vitality and his ego...and they lived blissfully ever after.

Etymology: Blend of 'perpetual' (never ending) and 'love' (romance, endearment)

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Couploldhearts

Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: cup old hearts

Sentence: They had indeed become a couploldhearts, having endured many decades of marriage. "Agreeing often not to agree" was once their tacit way of pushing through to peace; now they had reached a state of calm complicity, fortunately no longer able to see (or hear, for that matter) each other's follies, quirks and...wrinkles!

Etymology: couploldhearts n. This word is from "couple of old farts" as a way of irreverently referring to an old couple and "hearts".

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COMMENTS:

I like your verbotomy version ever so much better than the old saw! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-13: 13:11:00

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Romantique

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: rōmantēk

Sentence: Despite their flaws and foibles the elderly couple still have romantique feelings for each other. The fact that they occasionally call each other by the dog’s name seems to make no difference.

Etymology: Romantic (inclined toward or suggestive of the feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love) + Antique (having a high value because of considerable age)

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Eralentines

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: eee rah lent eye ns

Sentence: The eralentines were as in love as ever, although what used to be erotic was now erratic.

Etymology: era valentines

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Fidelattach

Created by: Lemtin

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Ignoromantics

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: ig-nor-oh-man-ticks

Sentence: Stacy thought her Gramma and Gramps were such ignoromantics. Yuck! Gramma seemed to delight in picking up Grampies dirty socks every morning. Grampie never complained about Grammie's cold scrambled eggs. Every night after their prayers, they held hands and fell asleep, snoring in unison. They always told her, "Love is patient and kind and hardly notices when something is wrong." Totally Retro!

Etymology: A combination of ignore, meaning to pay no attention + romantic, meaning a romantic person, one who is for love, strong feelings

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nice - galwaywegian, 2009-02-13: 09:29:00

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Partnersintime

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: part ners in tyme

Sentence: Connie & Clyde had been together so long, they could barely remember their first date. They were partnersintime and it turned out, they had robbed their first bank together and escaped on their getaway horse. That Pony Express guy was no match for them. It just shows that in love, anything is posse-ble!

Etymology: Play on "Partners in Crime" (collusion;people who plot, conspire and stay together) & Time (an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities.

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Comments:

Verbotomy - 2009-02-13: 00:01:01
Here is the last "Love Verbotomy" for Valentines week. Now I admit the definition sounds a little like marriage. But hey, every marriage is different, and if the Inuit can have 100 different words for snow, we could use a few more for this type of "relationship". Happy Valentines to all! ~ James

mweinmann - 2009-02-13: 08:14:00
Thanks for all of your wonderful cartoons and definitions and for keeping this all going. I think we would all be blessed if we had this type of relationship.... Happy Valentines Day everyone!!

Verbotomy - 2009-02-13: 12:04:00
Thank you mweinmann. And I "heartily" agree, a little bit of acceptance goes a long way towards making love stronger. ~ James

Verbotomy - 2010-08-27: 00:00:00
Today's definition was suggested by verbotomy. Thank you verbotomy. ~ James