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. To lavish a machine with affection, attention and an imagined personality.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Motordoter: /mÅtÉ™rdoÊŠdÉ™r/ Larry is a motordoter. He has a strange attraction to things with engines. He has names for his car, his lawnmower, even his dishwasher. The day he traded in his car he was almost in tears. Etymology: motor (a machine, esp. one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts) + doter (be extremely and uncritically fond of) Created by: artr.
Comments on Motordoter:
galwaywegian, 2010-06-03: 06:56:00
🙂
Wiiroticism: /weeeee rit issss isum/ The wiiroticism with which he acted around the console was worse than when he used to have nookia with his first mobile phone. Etymology: wii eroticism Created by: galwaywegian.
Comments on Wiiroticism:
Nosila, 2010-06-03: 10:39:00
Is that like Blackberi-beri?
Mechaneyes: /MEK uhn ize/ “I only have mechaneyes for you,” Carson crooned softly, as he stroked the side of his ’78 Buick Century. “Those sleek new snazzy cars have nothing on you. They have but a shadow of your beauty and grace.” His car was like an old friend to him. When people asked if he was getting a new car anytime soon, he would snap, “Would you trade in a friend of 32 years for someone you had just met?” Behind his back, people would say that if they had a friend of 32 years that smelled as bad as Carson’s car did, they probably WOULD get rid of that friend. Etymology: mechanize + eyes Created by: karenanne.
Spinfatuation: /spin fat yu ay shun/ Carl loved his car, in fact you could say he had a bad case of spinfatuation. His favourite book and movie had been Stephen King’s “Christine”, so when he first took her out for a spin (or as he called it, on their first date), he named her Christine. His spinfatuation was automatic and he spent many hours learning auto repair, because he did not want all those grease monkeys down at the local garage touching her sleek chassis, never mind looking under her hood. His time alone with her in the garage soon became a fixation. His mother was worried, but found it hard to torque to him about it. She tried to steer him towards other activities (or even appliances), but he refused to shift and always yelled back at her, until she was exhausted. Her concerns were further fueled by his talk about marrying Christine. She argued that this love was not the wheel thing and their age differential was too great. His mother almost had a hemi one day, when she discovered that Carl had left a note saying that he and Christine had eloped. The next day, Carl walked home, leaking eye fluids, without the lovely Christine. His mother saw that he was ready to blow a gasket and asked him what happened. Carl broke down and said “I have made a complete axle of myself on my wedding night!” He told her that he had found out when she had made a transmission, that Christine had had some “work” done on her before they met, she was really a convertible… she used to be known as Christopher! She became the little engine that couldn’t. Carl lost all his inhibitors and committed battery first and then vehicular homicide. He had come home to look for his cables…the jumpers. We knew it would all end in gears…Oh, the heart brake!
Etymology: Spin (a short drive in a car) & Infatuation (an object of extravagant short-lived passion;foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration)
Created by: Nosila.
To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=mower
Be Creative,
James
www.verbotomy.com
the create-a-word game