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DEFINITION: n. An extremely intimate, but completely innocent, relationship with an online "partner". v. To be virtually unfaithful while strictly maintaining physical loyalty.
Verboticisms
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Enamorage
Created by: renzeb
Pronunciation: Ee-na-mohr-ij
Sentence:
Etymology: Enamor + Rage
Woebegonorrhea
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: woe/begone/or/ea
Sentence: He felt an intense wave of woebegonorrhea when he discovered his girlfriend was cheating on him and just as he was about to tell her about the test results from the clinic
Etymology: woebegone + gonorrhea
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COMMENTS:
It's a cruel world. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:44:00
He never should have hooked up with SyPhillis. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 09:11:00
Nor Clay Middea, H. Ivy and Donna Vanosis - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:42:00
I think VD (Verbotomy Dialogue) is very contagious - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 12:34:00
dinner was going well, the potatoes were cooked to perfection.. the meat was tender and the gravy she'd made was delicious.. but the evening went downhill after he tasted Her Peas - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 18:48:00
No doubt someone had been engaging in riceque behaviour and enjoying some lentitillation with the peas. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 21:50:00
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Idulterer
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: eye-dull-ter-err
Sentence: While Jessica knew that Henry wasn't physically cheating on her, she saw him for the idulterer he was as he spent seven hours every night chatting with his email pal "Karen".
Etymology: adulterer + i-prefix popularized by apple electronics
Trampire
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: tram pyre
Sentence: He acted like a vampire in a fit of righteous trampire, his nerves snapped like a tripwire and his brain was going haywire.
Etymology: tramp, ire
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COMMENTS:
There once was a righteous vampire,
his brain went utterly haywire,
When his girlfriend cheated,
he got a bit heated,
and swooned in a fit of trampire. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:54:00
Poor sucker! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 09:06:00
Wasn't that from the Rocky Whoreor Prickture Show? - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 09:43:00
I like this one! - texmom, 2007-06-01: 15:29:00
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Insufferation
Created by: livejuicy
Pronunciation: in-suff-er-a-shun
Sentence: When he saw them embrace, he could only exclaim in insufferation - "What's going on?"
Etymology: insufferable + desolation
Betraifuror
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: bee tray ah few roar
Sentence: When he saw her in his brother's arms the betraifuror began in earnest.
Etymology: betray - traitorous behavior furor - rage
Cyberphilanderer
Created by: SnatchRaffle
Pronunciation: sigh-ber-fill-an-dur-er
Sentence: Steve! Are you on craigslist again? I knew you were a cyberphilanderer. What does her web browser have that I don't?
Etymology: Cyber(space) + philanderer = cyberphilanderer
Cyberfauxmance
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SI-ber-fo-mance
Sentence: Rhonda was heavily involved in cyberfaumance, carrying on multiple cyber 'affairs' with on line contacts whom she'd never actually met nor ever intended to meet.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'cyber' (a combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,”) 'faux' (fake, artificial) and 'romance' (a love affair, esp an intense and happy but short-lived affair involving young people)
Jiltidluv
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: Jill - tid - love
Sentence: Although he was positive his wife was having an affair, he chose to ignore his feelings of jiltidluv and live in denial.
Etymology: Jilted (to reject or abandon) + Love
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Clayton. Thank you Clayton! ~ James
Clayton, this definition has prompted some inspired commenting.
Yes! You guys are so funny, I can hardly wait to read the book. ~ James
Clayton - 2007-06-01: 13:56:00
Heh. It seems like we've all been there. Fortunately, it's been several years for me.
I have made a couple of changes today. First, I have changed the way the Verboticisms are displayed so that now it shows the words from every Verbroom. I have also added a "Show All" link which lists all the verboticims of the day on a single page! Secondly I have added a comment tracking system so you can track all your conversations. If these changes cause a problem, let me know! ~ James
Thank you for the show all. I was thinking about the "tag cloud" idea. It would work well on the author pages, where the weighting for each word could be displayed by relative size of font. Then we could check out our best scoring words, and it wouldn't interfere with voting. Tracking conversations is a neat idea too. Are all the comments from every word in the one "track" or would we have to track each one individuall?
Today's definition was suggested by Clayton. Thank you Clayton. ~ James