DEFINITION: n. A harmless untruth, intended to comfort simple souls. v. To use a little bit a fiction to smooth over the perplexities and complexities of life.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Enfabler: /en fay belur/ Most parents are enfablers to ease their little ones through life’s stages. Case in point is when the kiddies start losing their baby teeth. If the tooth in question is put under the child’s pillow, their parents tell them that the Tooth Fairy will take it away while they sleep and leave them money. Truth is, they should tell the kids to put away that money for when their adult teeth start falling out and they need to pay a dentist huge sums to replace them… Etymology: Enabler (one who can render capable or able for some task; makes it easier) & Fable (a deliberately false or improbable account; a short moral story; often using imaginary or supernatural events) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Enfabler:
metrohumanx, 2009-11-02: 01:48:00
You mean there IS no tooth fairy?
I’m shattered!Nosila, 2009-11-02: 09:29:00
Relax, though…there is a Santa Claus and an Easter Bunny!splendiction, 2009-11-02: 23:13:00
So trutooth.mweinmann, 2009-11-03: 07:52:00
splendid
Pacifib: /pass-i-fib/ Mommy quickly crafted a pacifib when Nora noticed that Goldie was not in her bowl one day after school. She put the little princess on her lap, gave her a hug, and told her a wonderful tale about how Goldie was invited to go with her fish friends to the Wild Water Kingdom instead of admitting that it went belly up and was flushed down the toilet. Nora, an especially precocious five year old wasn’t buying it. She became inconsolable and made Mommy take her to the pet store immediately for a new fish. Etymology: pacify: to calm, mollify or make peaceful + fib: insignificant or childish lie Created by: mrskellyscl.
Comments on Pacifib:
artr, 2009-11-02: 11:27:00
Cute word!mweinmann, 2009-11-03: 07:51:00
great word!
Mythinformed: /miθinfôrmd/ Sally spent most of her childhood mythinformed. The stork*s role in child delivery, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Santa, were just some of the tall tales her mother fed her. As she grew up and these fibs unraveled her mother replaced them with others, Trickle-Down Economics, Aunt Flo, **a good education will get you a good job**, Social Security and Reality TV to name a few. Now as an adult she she is more confused than ever, but that*s OK. She has 8,000 real friends and a farm and fish to take care of on Facebook. Etymology: myth (a traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events) misinformed (given false or inaccurate information) Created by: artr.
Comments on Mythinformed:
splendiction, 2009-11-02: 23:12:00
good word
Prevaricreation: /pre VARE uh cree AY shun/ When Sara asked if she were ever going to have a baby brother or sister, her mother was ready for the question. She told Sara a little prevaricreation about how she was “so special that God only gives out one like you every once in a while.” Well, actually, that was kind of true, if by “special” one meant “insufferable,” “obnoxious,” “time-sucking,” and/or “über-bratty.” Etymology: prevarication (n.: a statement that deviates from the truth; a fib) + create Created by: karenanne.
Comments on Prevaricreation:
Nosila, 2009-11-03: 01:09:00
Good one
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