Verboticisms

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)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: dom-eh-NAT-shur-ul

Sentence: When it comes to romance, Wilma is a dominatural, controlling as much of Phil's time as possible and eliminating any chance for him to interact with other women.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'dominate' and 'natural'

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Created by: Bandgor

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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.

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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.

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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)

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: the-miss-iss

Sentence: Heff wanted to spread the love, amongst other pestilences, but themissus was adamant that they were "meant to be together" and some other soppy nonsense.

Etymology: Because it's pretty much the normal behavior of women who think not being a sex-object appeals to men.

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COMMENTS:

Obvious? Maybe the themister works too. - Stevenson0, 2007-04-17: 12:56:00

See sexist etymology (just below the word "nonsense") for rebuttal. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-17: 13:12:00

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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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Created by: meatloafster

Pronunciation: love + leech

Sentence: Sara's such a loveleech. I feel like she's got me by the balls.

Etymology: Someone who leeches love.

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COMMENTS:

lovelee - galwaywegian, 2007-04-17: 07:04:00

Seems both you and Sara are suckers for love. - petaj, 2007-04-17: 07:19:00

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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

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