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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.
Verboticisms
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Lovevampire
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: love-vam-pire
Sentence: Julie was a lovevampire in that she sucked all of the love out of a relationship by monopolizing all of the love of her victim.
Etymology: love + vampire
Cherholder
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: Cher-hol-der
Sentence: David thinks he can hold on to Cher as his girlfriend. His plan is to spend every minute with her so she can't get interested in any men.
Etymology: Cher, david's girl/ hold, to hang on/shareholder, people that hold stock in, or part ownership in something.
Smotherhalf
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: smuth-er-half
Sentence: Bill's possessiveness meant he wasn't good boyfriend material. Pity the poor girl whose smotherhalf he was.
Etymology: smother (to suffocate) + other half (expression meaning one's partner or spouse)
Amogarchy
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌæməˈɡɑɹki/
Sentence: We told him that his significant smother wasn't really controlling enough to constitute an amogarchy, but it was just a foma.
Etymology: from amo- (romantic love) and -archy (government)
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COMMENTS:
Significant smother works better than amogarchy, which I'd have as "a system of rule by lovers"- a truly scary notion. Still, the sentence alone is worth a vote. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-17: 13:17:00
Thanks, and I agree that "significant smother" is better, but I never like having to cram two-word terms into a one-word entry. - ErWenn, 2007-04-17: 14:05:00
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Dictatamore
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: dik - taa - ta - mor - a
Sentence: Sean had become a dictatamore and Sarah was feeling stiffled, stiffened and smothered. He was jealous of her dog, her mother and even her stuffed animals.
Etymology: dicatate, amore
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COMMENTS:
Ha! good word! - splendiction, 2009-11-03: 21:13:00
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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.
Mugwuv
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: MUG-wub
Sentence: When Clarence scolded her for kissing her brother, Serena knew he was a mugwuv, and told him to take a hike.
Etymology: mug-to steal, wuv, mugwump
Porcamor
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: Poor-sah-more
Sentence: His porcamor girlfriend never let him go out with his friends on Saturday nights.
Etymology: Porc-from porcine or piglike Amor- love
Reindear
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: rayn - deer
Sentence: Elizabeth is a veritable reindear, keeping her fiancé, Duke, on a very short leash, seldom letting him out of her sight and dominating most of his time thereby making sure that other women were kept at bay.
Etymology: Blend of rein (means of controlling) and dear
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COMMENTS:
like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-24: 16:13:00
Love it...is she also a care-ibou? You sleigh me! - Nosila, 2008-06-24: 20:25:00
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Amorosite
Created by: brianmcmickle
Pronunciation: ah-mor-o-site
Sentence: He could escape the constant questioning of the amorosite as she constantly redirected his attention towards her by making him feel guilty about it being directed anywhere else.
Etymology: Combination of the Spanish word Amor meaning love and the word parasite (attached to a host sucking its life force).
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COMMENTS:
Perfect! - lumina, 2008-06-24: 22:04:00
Nice word Brian. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-25: 06:38:00
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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!