Verboticism: Threatinspire
DEFINITION: v. To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats. n. A kind and gentle threat.
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Threatinspire
Created by: dkrider
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My boss tried to threatinspire me to work harder by revoking my bathroom privileges.
Etymology: threaten + inspire
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COMMENTS:
good sentence! - jrogan, 2006-12-19: 01:13:00
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Childlie
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: Child'lie
Sentence: I love childlying to them, they are so gullible!
Etymology: Lie to child for their own sake
Intimispire
Created by: librarygrrrl
Pronunciation: in-TIM-i-spire
Sentence: Before letting me go out for the night, Mom intimispired me about my messy room.
Etymology: intimidate + inspire
Follygraphed
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: Fol-ee-graft
Sentence: I follygraphed when I convinced my co-worker that if he xeroxed a huge stack of papers, he'd get promoted to CEO.
Etymology: Folly + polygraph
Enthreaten
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: In-Threaten
Sentence: My mom enthreatened me to study hard for my SATs and not slack off.
Etymology: Encourage + Threaten
Aggromotivation
Created by: symemac
Pronunciation: a grow motivation
Sentence:
Etymology:
Petation
Created by: Dylanor
Pronunciation: Pehtayshun
Sentence: Stop with the petation already!
Etymology:
Parenlietivate
Created by: TwoSheds
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I often parenlietivate, it's good for my kids
Etymology: Parent+lie+motivate
Mothreavational
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: as in mothrea - vational
Sentence: No sex for one week? that's very mothreavational!
Etymology: mothreavational /mo/ prefix + /threa/ from E. threat meaning warining on something imminent + /vational/ sufix
