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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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Furospicious
Created by: bubbos
Pronunciation: Fu-ro-spi-cious
Sentence: Tom got home early from work today. However, an uneasy feeling of furospicious lingers in Tom's head as he hears Anna's voice moaning from the bedroom upstairs.
Etymology: Furious - extreme anger, often uncontrollable and unmanageable Suspicious - predictable response from hearing moaning upstairs
Esophistinfaiz
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: ess-o-FIS-tin-feyz
Sentence: The extirpatingly asphyxiating and incalculably discombobulating esophistinfaiz exacerbated me and motivated me to thrust a lolloping cogency into the rendezvousing Brutuses. In short... I punched them.
Etymology: S.O.P [Standard Operating Procedure] a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely XD + an evolution of the phrase "fist in face" + esophagus, a possible fist target [yeah, it could be]
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COMMENTS:
Whew! Glad you summed up that sentence. You lost me at extir... Quite creative! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:59:00
I thought it may have been the response of a philosopher in Morroco (sophist in Faiz) - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:38:00
thanks. though i could've sworn i read one of Aesop's fables when I conjured up that word (Aesop is in the Faiz)... *sigh* and that was just another corny joke, courtesy of ohwtepph. - ohwtepph, 2007-06-01: 09:58:00
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Deniattack
Created by: brandie
Pronunciation: dee-neye-attack
Sentence: When I found him in bed with someone else, I started screaming and then had a deniattack.
Etymology: Denial attack
Vileous
Created by: LindsayStar
Pronunciation: V-ile-ous
Sentence: what is the vileuos creature doing to her
Etymology:
Newlyweb
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: noōlēweb
Sentence: Joyce is a newlywed. Everybody knows how she hates to waste money so nobody was too shocked when she introduced her eHarmony newlyweb on Facebook. How could she have just left her paid-for account lapse without getting full use? Her real world husband isn’t sure how he feels about his virtual counterpart.
Etymology: newlywed (a recently married person) + web (short for World Wide Web)
Dysphuriation
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: dis-FYOOR-ee-EY-shuhn
Sentence: Gerald could not contain his dysphuriation, which was clearly harder on him than either Janet or Carl, the landscaper.
Etymology: dysphoria + infuriation
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COMMENTS:
Janet was into whoreticulture. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:55:00
Gerald was a mite angry, but Carl probably has a spray for that. Janet declared she was just being environmentally friendly. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:03:00
Carl was a seedy character, having had affairs with Rose, Daisy, and Lily as well. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 09:19:00
sounds like a thHorny problem - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 12:30:00
Yes, but Gerald rose to the occasion. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 13:54:00
Damn, "rose" had already been used. I'll try again. It wasn't the first time Janet had been deflowered. Gerald fell into a vegetative state, preventing him from getting to the root of the problem. Tree times was fir too many. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 14:05:00
Perhaps Janet felt that Gerald had been spending too much thyme with Rosemary and as he hadn't been wearing his foxglove he had developed a problem with his peonies - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 15:35:00
Whereas Janet's gardenia belt left her feverbush exposed, making Carl's horse cane extremely gladiola, until his stamen peeked out from under his monkshood and he began pollen on his periwinkle. Fertilization was fine, but there was no possumhaw that he could marigold that witch-hazel and become a poppie, carting the orchids around to daisy care. Some called him a pansy, but many problems stemmed from his disinterest in cultivating a family and branching out. He wished everyone would just leaf him alone so he could smoke weed and listen to the Sex Pistils. Maple it was for the best. He'd rather bee with Jasmine, to chestnut on her pod and turn out the nightshade. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 18:35:00
too funny - I'm splitpeaing myself with laughter!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 20:10:00
Clayton, you sure have some stamena for pROSE. Freesia jolly good fellow, and sow say all of us. - petaj, 2007-06-02: 23:34:00
Ha ha! LOVE it! - Clayton, 2007-06-04: 06:18:00
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Lovix
Created by: RubyWry
Pronunciation: Luv-ix
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Thats a great word nice going - RubyWry, 2007-06-02: 18:08:00
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Desoulashun
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: des/sohl/a/shun
Sentence: When he caught Jenny with Robbie, complete and utter desoulashun overtook him.
Etymology: desolation + soulmate + shun
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COMMENTS:
Until he turned to Vicky for consoulation - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:42:00
Vicky, that soultry nixhim! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:47:00
He was probably just looking for some soulass - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 09:04:00
or maybe more ass than soul - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:09:00
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Evenge
Created by: geoamnesia
Pronunciation: "E" as in "Ea[r¨]" + Revenge
Sentence: When he first saw them together, he became obsessed with thoughts of evenge.
Etymology: Electronic + Revenge
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COMMENTS:
He just wanted to get even. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 21:58:00
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Fauxtimacy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: faux/ti/macy
Sentence: Susan needs to have an on-line fauxtimacy to make her life at home during the day bearable.
Etymology: faux + intimacy
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COMMENTS:
faux she's a jolly good fellow! - Nosila, 2009-12-28: 22:20:00
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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