Verboticism: Mogrivate
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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Petithreaten
Created by: Wembler
Pronunciation: peh-tee-threaten
Sentence: Mother liked to petithreaten us to clean our rooms.
Etymology: Petite/Threaten
Fauxtivate
Created by: sufjan
Pronunciation: foe-ti-vait
Sentence: As a child, I always worked hard due to my my grandmother's fauxtivations about the tooth fairy making my teeth fall out.
Etymology: faux-fake (mo)tivate-to encourage
Philanthreaty
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: fill-anth-reh-tee
Sentence: Later, when he questioned his mother about her use of water boarding to encourage the children to revise for their exams, she steadfastly claimed it was philanthreaty, for their own good.
Etymology: philanthropy + threat
Molaspasm
Created by: Taami
Pronunciation:
Sentence: c'mon clean up your room, you don't want a molaspasm do you.
Etymology:
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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Pinkmail
Created by: riflesandkids74
Pronunciation: pink-mayl
Sentence: My mother would often try to pinkmail me into cleaning my room. As I grew older i realized how empty her threats were and would often defy her.
Etymology: based on blackmail. pink replaces black as it is traditionally an unthreatening color.
Threatentice
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: θretnentīs
Sentence: The boss is famous for his ability to threatentice his sales staff. "If you don't make time to get your paperwork done, I just might not have time to sign your commission checks" can be quite motivating.
Etymology: threaten (state one's intention to take hostile action against someone in retribution for something done or not done) + entice (attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage)
Actorelse
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He would not do what was necessary so I decided I needed to actorelse.
Etymology:
Nastyvate
Created by: vishalrix
Pronunciation:
Sentence: If motivation did'nt work, Jim used his fallback option, nastivation, to drive home the point.
Etymology: nasty + motivate
