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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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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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Hyperphiliac
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: high-purr-FILL-ee-ack
Sentence: Alex dumped his hyperphiliac girlfriend after she lambasted him for talking to his plants.
Etymology: hyper- (overmuch) + -phil- (love) -iac (person ending). Resembles "haemophiliac" and "hyperglycemia".
Loveleech
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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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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Loveshackler
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: luv-shak-lah
Sentence: She realised too late that she had just moved in with a loveshackler....and whats more the tiiiiiiiiiiiin roof was rusted
Etymology: shackles, love shack...baby love shack.
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COMMENTS:
Clever and funny! - wordmeister, 2007-04-17: 05:02:00
Very good! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-17: 05:18:00
The B52's would applaud. Good one - toadstool57, 2007-04-17: 07:55:00
Like the connotation of irritation conveyed by the cheese (music, not lunch) reference. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-17: 13:20:00
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Restraintionship
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: re-strain-tion-ship
Sentence: At first he thought Jill was perfect but Jack soon realized that he was in a restraintionsip and it was going to be hard to break free of her control. Seeing her in her black leather boots, though, he had to admit that there was something about the shock collar that excited him.
Etymology: restrain: to hold back or keep in control + restraint: the condition of being restrained + relationship
Dearanny
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: deer-uh-nee
Sentence: When she hired a spy to watch my every move, I knew her love had become an unbearable dearanny.
Etymology: dear + tyranny
Jealouse
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: JEH louse
Sentence: Lydia couldn't take it anymore. If she answered her cellphone, Mark would be right there, obviously listening to her side of the conversation. If she didn't take the call, he would "casually" say, "Hmmm... I wonder who was calling?" He would pretend to be doing tasks nearby whenever she was on e-mail, but she knew he was really trying to read over her shoulder. For a while she had thought his possessiveness was sweet, but now she realized he was just a jealouse. It was the same age-old story, except now with technology added.
Etymology: jealous + louse
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COMMENTS:
perfect word! - Nosila, 2009-11-03: 12:10:00
I agree! - splendiction, 2009-11-03: 21:14:00
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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.
Intimacop
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: intəməkäp
Sentence: Sandy wants it all, every little bit of Clyde*s attention and affection. She keeps him on a very short leash. She is a regular intimacop, watching everything he does and controlling everyone he sees, what he ates, even when he was allowed to go to the bathroom. Life can be very busy with a puppy in the house.
Etymology: intimacy (close familiarity or friendship; closeness) + cop (a police officer)
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!