Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: əbshoōsiv

Sentence: Joanne loves shoes. She has so many that her guest room has no room for any visitors. She is so obshoesive that she will wear ones that hurt her feet so much that she has to shop at the grocery in an electronic cart.

Etymology: obsessive (to be preoccupied) + shoe (a covering for the foot, typically made of leather, with a sturdy sole and not reaching above the ankle) + abusive (engaging in or characterized by habitual violence and cruelty)

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: sty LET oh

Sentence: Candy just loves buying sexy and stylish new shoes from places like Needless Markup - oops, I mean Neiman Marcus. She must have 150 pairs - no, I'm not kidding. She and her husband built an addition onto their bedroom, which they tell everyone was for the luxury bathroom, but really it was so that they could have a walk-in closet - just to hold all her shoes. Her husband was thinking of retiring early on the money he had made as an investment banker, but it isn't going to happen now, between the second mortgage and all the expensive shoes. But he loves and adores her - he calls her his little styletto.

Etymology: style + stiletto

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Created by: lilyk12342

Pronunciation:

Sentence: She has a serious case of pedomania

Etymology: ped-foot mania-mental derangement characterized by obsession and delusions

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Created by: green

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Created by: BIANCAGRAY1

Pronunciation: Gli-fo-mane-ee-ah

Sentence: The doctor diagnosed the kid with the knife and crazy eyes with glyphomania.

Etymology: Glyph- to carve Mania- obsession

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: feh - TISH- oo

Sentence: Fetishoe. Gesundheit. her shoe shopping penchant was an illness.

Etymology: fetish + shoe + atishoo (sneeze)

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Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: shoo-hoh

Sentence: It started innocently enough at her high school prom, when Melissa's mother loaned her a pair of pink pumps. Two inches may not seem like much, but the height was exhilarating, and immediately addictive. Before too long she couldn’t even go to the beach without wearing platform sandals. And then she jumped up to hardcore. Now she’s a total shoehoh, wobbling around the shopping mall in six-inch stilettos, begging for her next fix.

Etymology: shoe + ho (whore)

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COMMENTS:

I wonder if she can even shoewhoren in to those old pumps. - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-02: 13:17:00

I've done a bit of shoewhoren myself, and it is a bit tricky when you've got six inchers on... - wordmeister, 2008-06-02: 13:57:00

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Created by: JeffreyNorris

Pronunciation: 'pȯd-e-rōt

Sentence: When I told him I was a poderote, I had to explain that I liked to buy stylish shoes; he thought it meant I was a foot fetishist!

Etymology: Greek pod "foot" + erot "love"

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Created by: Squee

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Sentence: My kilochore friend went on a shopping spree and is dead broke.

Etymology: kilo-one thousand, chore-dance

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Ih - MEL - duh - ranjd

Sentence: Gracielda was absolutely imeldaranged, caught up in a compulsion to buy any and every pair of shoes or other footwear that caught her eye.

Etymology: Blend of Imelda - well known shoe nut Imelda Marcos, and deranged

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COMMENTS:

I like how it rolls off the tongue - and makes me chuckle. Nice one! - mikeysfbay, 2008-06-02: 09:03:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-02: 13:18:00

such Imeldacity! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-02: 22:47:00

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