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DEFINITION: n. A person who wants to monopolize all of someone's love and tries to prevent them from sharing it with others.v. To monopolize someone's love.
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Sin-wat
Created by: vonnegut
Pronunciation: sin-wat
Sentence: "As your husband, I'll want all your love for myself." She stared at me with widening eyes. "A sin-wat!"... "I will not marry a sin-wat." She stood. "Goodbye." "Good-bye?" I was crushed.
Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.
Erotocentric
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: eer -ott- oh -sent-rick
Sentence: she dropped her coffee on him in an eroticocentric attempt to get him to forget Angelina was in the room.
Etymology: Eros- god of love and lust centric - centred on focused on.
Greedyneedy
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: gree - dee - nee - dee
Sentence: Men always break up with greedyneedys.
Etymology: greedy (having an excessive desire over something) + needy (in a condition of extreme want)
Amoravore
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: am-or-a-vor
Sentence: Rachel gets jealous just when Doug goes through checkout if the checkout person is female. She is a bit of an amoravore
Etymology: "amora" from the Latin for word "amore" (love); "vore" as in eater.
Monophiliac
Created by: SmoothP
Pronunciation: mah-no filly-ack
Sentence: I thought she might enjoy a threesome, but she was a real monophiliac.
Etymology: mono "one", philia "love"
Insecuramorata
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: /in/seh/kyoor/a/mah/rah/ta
Sentence: Gina smiled as she passed by the couple walking towards her which earned the poor guy that grinned back at her a thump on the forehead by his insecuramorata.
Etymology: in·se·cure = subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person+ Inamorata comes from Italian innamorata, feminine of innamorato, from the past participle of innamorare, "to inspire with love," from in- (from Latin) + amore, "love" (from Latin amor, from amare, "to love"). A man with whom one is in love is an inamorato.
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COMMENTS:
interesting - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-24: 16:11:00
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Lovaritia
Created by: jjlmfay
Pronunciation: Low-wah-ree-tia
Sentence: His paranoia was growing with the passing of each day apart. He had become a lovaritia, consumed with control and love turned something sickly. Her affection wasn't enough, he had to have all of her.
Etymology: love (deep affection for someone) + avaritia (Latin for greed)
Domimator
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dom/i/mate/or
Sentence: Because of her insecurities, when she is in a relationship she needs to be a domimator. She domimates to the point of totally controlling and smothering her boyfriend.
Etymology: dominate + mate
Monogampolize
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mon og am po lyze
Sentence: Mona had become very possessive towards Monty since they had gotten married. Although he had never strayed or otherwise gave her reason to mistrust, she watched his every move and ensured that no other females took his attention away from her, even for a moment. Her every action and word was focussed on her vigilant ability to monogampolize him and ensure that he was never diverted from adoring her. Mona should learn to lighten up...just because you are on a strict diet, doesn't mean that you can't look at the menus!
Etymology: Monogamy (having only one spouse at a time)& Monopolize (have or exploit a monopoly of;have and control fully and exclusively)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent blend! - splendiction, 2009-11-03: 21:12:00
Nice tactile oral sensation, babe! - metrohumanx, 2009-11-04: 06:45:00
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Erosponge
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eee ross punj
Sentence: She was a complete erosponge, mopping up all the juices he could produce.
Etymology: eros, sponge
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COMMENTS:
Clever! - jedijawa, 2007-04-17: 10:12:00
Clever! - jedijawa, 2007-04-17: 18:53:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
See the top 4 words of the day at Why were you looking at that girl? ~ James
- 2008-04-20: 01:04:00
good stuffing
- 2008-04-20: 01:08:00
hairy!
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James
lumina - 2009-11-04: 17:09:00
Thanks for the welcome back Nos. Totally forgot about this fun place. Time to sharpen my verbotomizing skills again. Helloooo methrohumanx!