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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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Adultguttery
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: adult-GUT-ery (but variations for different parts of speech are allowed eg. adultergutted)
Sentence: Daniel was prostrate with adultguttery and could only curse himself that he had seen it coming. Afterall, she was a harlotbinger, a harbinger of harlotry.
Etymology: adultery + gutted
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COMMENTS:
isn't the harbinger of harlotry one of the signs of the 'ho'diac - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 03:28:00
or is it a sign that whoremaggedon is upon us...i can never remember. - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 03:30:00
Bawdly speaking, she was also known as the Oracallgirl of Delphi. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 04:51:00
sounds like a real prophetstitute - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 06:18:00
probably whoremoanal - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 06:34:00
That reminds me of a joke... How do you make a hormone? Forget to pay her. (are those groans I hear?) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:39:00
That one always make me giggle'o - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:06:00
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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)
Flirtualist
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: flir-two-list
Sentence: Franny was quite the flirtualist with Frank until Fa´moused found out.
Etymology: Flirt-To make playfully romantic overtures. Part of Virtual and also in part of Dual...Having a double character or purpose.
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COMMENTS:
It sounds more like flirt + virtual, which is probably part of the charm. :) - Discoveria, 2012-09-29: 12:41:00
Thank you~ You got it! It sure is... ;) - abrakadeborah, 2012-12-06: 14:38:00
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Matrazzic
Created by: gautambarathwaj
Pronunciation: Pronunced as "Maatra-zzic"
Sentence: She was Mattrazzic when her lover saw her with someone else
Etymology: From the Tail word "MAATRAN" which means "SOme one else's" This Word has tamil roots
Confudulterage
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /kənfjuˈdʌltʌˌɹeɪdʒ/
Sentence: I was so overcome with confudulterage that I couldn't decide whether to scream, cry, break something, storm out of the room, or run off to join the circus.
Etymology: From confused + adultery + rage
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COMMENTS:
The above sentence is not meant to be autobiographical in any sense whatsoever. I just wanted to avoid using a gendered pronoun, and I got tired of trying to think of an elegant way of doing so in the third person. Thankfully, I've never had to feel confudulterage before, and hopefully I never will. - ErWenn, 2007-06-01: 03:55:00
Here's to monotony...er... monogamy! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:44:00
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Cuckoolduphoria
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: kuk-ohld-u-fore-eea
Sentence: As Hilary watched bill leave for the office with a box of havan's finest the old familiar cuckooluphoria rose in her belly.
Etymology: cuckold - the victim of sexual betrayal by a spourse. euphoria - an intense emotional feeling, usually postitive.
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COMMENTS:
Hillilarious! - wordmeister, 2007-06-01: 14:05:00
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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
Intimet
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: inn-tee-met
Sentence: I told my husband about Roger. He said it was alright because we've only intimet, and that's what he does with Sandra anyway. So it's not cheating.
Etymology: Internet + Intimate + Met = Intimet
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