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DEFINITION: v. What boyfriends and husbands do while they are waiting their girlfriends and/or wives to shop. n. A person doing such a thing.
Verboticisms
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Mallancholy
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: mahl-uhn-kuhl-eee
Sentence: Dave went mallancholy as he stood holding Debra's handbag at the Emasculation Station outlet store.
Etymology: mall + melancholy
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-26: 11:50:00
Seems as if Dave got himself into a eunuch predickament. Might decide to keep the handbag! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-26: 22:19:00
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Wonderlust
Created by: gazissax
Pronunciation: wun -der-lust
Sentence: Jane was busy trying on bras in the back room, so Jack engaged in a little wonderlust at the women passing through.
Etymology: wonder - to be filled with admiration, amazement, or awe; marvel; and lust - to have a yearning or desire; have a strong or excessive craving
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COMMENTS:
Did Jane have wonderbralust? - petaj, 2007-09-26: 04:43:00
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Gapetient
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: gape.shunt
Sentence: Willard knew the routine as a practiced gapetient: wait outside the dressing rooms, holding the clothes his wife couldn't take in. After she had tried on all her selected items (several trips back and forth), pinched her cellulite while staring into the mirrors until she was bruised, she would appear and say there wasn't a thing she could use. Yes, he had suffered all these years with great gapetience. All this because he had thought she was the cutest car hop at Bob's Big Boy in Glendale in 1963.
Etymology: combination of gape, to stare with mouth open wide + patient, uncomplaining endurace or as well, a person undergoing treatment for disease!
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COMMENTS:
Beautiful writing...and hilarious.Thanks RW - metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:29:00
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Nonnonaye
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Non-non-eye
Sentence: Dave stood by the shop's front entrance and watched mournfully as his missus sailed past the lingerie section onto the comfy cardy department. Turning to face the street, his inner Hefner began selecting new recruits for his imaginary bunny girl club, nonnonaying each young lass as she passed by. "Non ... non ... aye"
Etymology: Non - No (French). Aye - Yes (English; dialect North of the Watford Gap)
Spreeander
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: spree-an-durr
Sentence: Spreeandering about the mall for hours while Sandy tried on countless pairs of jeans left Jack barely coherent, and hungry. When he saw his honey finally emerge from her umpteenth dressing room, he grunted something about "done yet" and "food court" - much to her annoyance. "Geez, Jack, don't be such a Spreeanderthal" she retailiated (retail + retaliate), handing him the most expensive pair she had found.
Etymology: (shopping) spree + meander
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COMMENTS:
Is that when he went off in perch haste? - petaj, 2007-09-26: 04:47:00
At the end of a shopping spree a woman is tired as well as spent. Nice blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-26: 18:47:00
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Manshopause
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: man-SHOW-pause
Sentence: William casually browsed through the spring fashions trying to look manly while taking a manshopause holding his wife's purse as she tried on the new dresses.
Etymology: Man+ shop + (meno)pause
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COMMENTS:
very nice - cfinleyca, 2007-09-26: 17:22:00
Funny stuff! - cfinleyca, 2007-09-26: 19:30:00
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Manopause
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: man - oh - pause
Sentence: Fred was going through manopause today. He started to sweat, have hot flashes and get overemotional as he waited in the sun for 3 hours while Margaret tried on dresses.
Etymology: menopause (a change of life time period where women have many intersting symptoms) + man (a different kind of manopause)..... + pause (to stop or wait)
Cashtrate
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: ˈkash trāt
Sentence: Leonard always felt cashtrated at the mall whilst his girlfriend Amanda took charge of his credit card and tossed him like a hangar in the dressing home
Etymology: cash ( currency, money) + castrate (to emasculate, deprive vigor)
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COMMENTS:
That's why they call money geld! - Nosila, 2012-11-02: 19:27:00
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Leuling
Created by: Magic94
Pronunciation: L-oi-ling
Sentence: Geoff had to stand and leul whilst Jane looked through Marks and Spencers.
Etymology:
Shoperfunctorate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: shop-pur-FUNKSHO-rate
Sentence: Bob is not an optimist, he never double parks while Roxie is shopping. All he hopes for, as he shoperfunctorates, is that Roxie's feet will start to hurt before his wallet does. And when she's seriously shoprocrasty, he never ridicules her or becomes boutique-piqued, but remains mart-smart even when she tries on a dozen dresses and an imelda of shoes.
Etymology: Blend of shop & perfunctorate: done merely to get rid of the duty, performed mechanically, by rote, superficially. Cognates: Shoperfunctory, Shoperfunctoriness.
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COMMENTS:
I love boutique-piqued and the imelda of shoes - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-26: 10:46:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Can't you be arrested for MASTERWAITING in public?
galwaywegian - 2008-08-27: 05:56:00
Or masterbaiting at college
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James