DEFINITION: n. The strong feelings of devotion and affection which a person feels towards their favorite mechanical device or appliance, such as a car, boat, power tool, or toilet. v. intr. To lavish a machine with affection, attention and an imagined personality.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Contrapture: /kun-trap-chur/ I’d called him twice to dinner. There was a steaming plate of his favorite dish sitting before his empty seat at the table. Outside, the icy rain started coming down harder, yet Mark still hadn’t come in. I looked out the window to find him tenderly tugging on the ropes attached to the tarp covering his old rust-bucket tractor, Bessie… and wiping off her wet spots. The evidence was clearly mounting that Mark had fallen victim to contrapture. Etymology: contraption, rapture Created by: purpleartichokes.
Comments on Contrapture:
doseydotes, 2008-03-27: 09:09:00
Great word. Even greater sentence – “wiping off her wet spots.” You’re a poet, Purple A.Jabberwocky, 2008-03-27: 11:27:00
excellent purplepurpleartichokes, 2008-03-27: 12:11:00
Thanks Jabber and dosey. I always struggle with sentences. This one came easy, as it actually happened.spotthecat1, 2008-03-27: 13:40:00
wonderful word…easy to pronounce and remember!OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 17:30:00
Excellent.
Motoroticism: /mÅ’tÉ™r-rÅt’Ä-sÄz’É™m/ He was attracted, and she knew it. He telegraphed his arousal with every breath. But she played it cool; he might as well not have existed, as far as she was concerned. Of course, that made her all the more desirable. She stood there, in all her gleaming glory, and idled, her vortec V-6 rumbling, her flanks gleaming, her two-speed transfer case and four-wheel-drive tranny lying idle.
“A hundred thirty k’s quite a few miles,” he muttered, trying to disguise the motoroticism reeking from his pores, then offered twelve hundred fifty for the ’92 S10 Blazer. Etymology: moto, middle Norse, “diminuative snapshot structure;” rot, bef. 900; (v.) ME rot(t)en, OE rotian, c. Fris rotsje, D rotten; (n.) ME, perh. < ON rot (perh. partly deriv. of the v.), “aroma of that which eminates from Denmark;” I, the nominative singular pronoun; cism, derivative of ‘sizzle,’ from early N. V. Peale, that which is sold in lieu of, and is percieved as preferrable to, the steak. Created by: stache.
Comments on Motoroticism:
doseydotes, 2008-03-27: 09:07:00
I knew there was something going on with that freakin’ truck. Don’t forget . . . it’s gonna be MINE.Jabberwocky, 2008-03-27: 11:52:00
great wordpurpleartichokes, 2008-03-27: 15:11:00
I like it too!Mustang, 2008-03-27: 18:46:00
Excellent!!OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 17:30:00
Excellent.
Esteemachine: /ESS-tim-ay-shun/ Tim’s inamorotor was a revolving door. He was filled with adooration for it and romeotored it by daily servicing its moving parts. It had grown in his esteemachine and now outranked his combine heartvester in his affections. Etymology: esteem + machine Created by: petaj.
Comments on Esteemachine:
diyan627, 2008-03-27: 11:41:00
Funny! Great word and sentence! I know a few’ who have an esteemachine collection!
Mechanimism: /-muh-KAN-uh-miz-um-/ ‘Janice seems to really love her new food processor,’ mused Charles as he left her apartment. She’d invited him over for dinner, but then she’d spent most of the evening in the kitchen with it. He was sure he’d heard Janice humming and cooing to it everytime she switched it on, and she would meticulously clean it between and after each use, admiring the sharp, shiny, new blades. As he got into his car, Charles told himself that he wasn’t jealous, but this was surely a case of mechanimism, and he began to wonder about Janice’s sanity. “Oh well,” he thought, patting the dashboard of his Porche, “that just means more quality time for us, right Katrina?” (the car was named for her stormy personality). Etymology: Mechanical – having to do with machinery (from Greek, mekhanikos “an engineer”) + Animism – the belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects (from Latin, anima “life, breath, soul”) Created by: Tigger.
Comments on Mechanimism:
Tigger, 2008-03-27: 07:29:00
I was going to use ‘Mechanthropomorphism’ but that seemed a bit too long…
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Be Creative,
James
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Definition Comments:
Verbotomy – 2008-03-27: 00:01:00
Today’s definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
stache – 2008-03-27: 01:25:00
Have these always been called “verboticisms?”
Verbotomy – 2008-03-28: 06:00:00
Yes that’s the word we use to describe our invented words. Of course you can also use “neologism”. And I think we should create a subcategory for invented words with sexual undertones like your winning word today. It would be “verberoticisms”. ~ James