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DEFINITION: n. A person who habitually looks for love in the all the wrong places and wonders why it always turns out wrong. v. To look for love in the wrong places.
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Roameo
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: rome-ee-oh
Sentence: He was getting lots of action, but couldn't find a nice girl to settle down with him. Could it be he was a roameo? He still hoped to hear wedding bells when he took that thirteenth step at Sex Addicts Anonymous.
Etymology: Romeo (Shakespeare's doomed lover) + roam (to go from place to place without purpose or direction.)
Amourid
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: a/mour/id
Sentence: Joe's love life has become an amourid situation because he cruises all night diners and old age homes for "the one".
Etymology: AMOURID - from AMOUR (love, romance) + ARID (barren or unproductive)
Loveloined
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: luv loynd
Sentence: Nothing was sadder than Elsie and Bessie,the Bovine Sisters, a pair of loveloined heifers. Their success at attracting true love was terribull...there had been no chance of oxtasy for them. They were always steered in the wrong direction and although they played the field, literally, they were never stampeded by suitors. They decided to join an on-loin dating service on their cowmputers. They only had one beef with this service, it was udderly impossibull to find a young stud who told the truth and did not shoot the bull. These mavericks were always born a "Taurus", owned their own spread and would love to be a fodder. Their names turned out not to be Angus or Delmonico, but Chuck or Stew. Any success the sisters had with this service was strictly oxcidental. When she herd what they had done, their mother had warned them that Internet dating always ended in steers.
Etymology: lovelorn (unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love) & loin (a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump)
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COMMENTS:
Udderly Puntastic! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 02:26:00
Gives a whole new meaning to beefcake! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:37:00
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Aortatard
Created by: Meganja
Pronunciation: a-or-tuh-tard
Sentence: Stop being a douchey, terrible judging AORTATARD and listen to your brain when it comes to falling in love.
Etymology:
Heiferafter
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hef er aft er
Sentence: It was obvious that Madge and Dodie were heiferafter in their search for true love. They were steered in the direction of a meet market and met two young longhorns oxendentally,who were bovine, but uninterested in getting yoked.
Etymology: Heifer (young cow) & Everafter (from here to Eternity)
Romanthick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: row man th ik
Sentence: his romanthick streak left him with a broken heart, two missing teeth and a black eye
Etymology: romantic, thick
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COMMENTS:
desthpicable!love it - Nosila, 2010-08-25: 22:07:00
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Concupid
Created by: spotter
Pronunciation: Con cue pid
Sentence: Rick was concupid looking for love in the pharmacy. Marta said, "Suzy is so concupid."
Etymology: Con=Anti; Against Cupid= A symbol of love Therefor; Against a symbol of love
Halholetroll
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: HAL HOLE TROLE
Sentence: Ever since she and Hal broke up she's got that void to fill...so where else can you go to fill it other than the same kind of hellhole...Hal's favourite watering hole. When she gets that look in her eyes, you can tell she's doing the Halholetroll.
Etymology: HAL: a man's name HELLHOLE: terrible place WATERING HOLE: slang for drinking place TROLL: slang for looking for a member of the opposite sex by putting out bait and waiting for someone to show interest
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COMMENTS:
Gives a whole new meaning to holesome! etymology fits 'wrong places' to a T! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:31:00
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Goodbarista
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: gud-barr-ees-ta
Sentence: During her summer vacation, Miss Misty Pristine, tried working as a barista in the local tanning salon cum cafe, Sun Brew. She was so overt in her flirting attempts with the married insurance man who liked his French-pressed with hazelnut or the EMT studying to be a Paramedic who always asked for two shots in his Zippee, the house special. The local college students, making up courses in summer sessions, who loved her HavaJavaMints, called her The Goodbarista.
Etymology: From Looking for Mr. GOODBAR, the story of a young teacher looking for love + BARISTA, a mocha maker
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COMMENTS:
terrific reference - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-11: 10:39:00
Also a well-crafted, very clever sentence - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:45:00
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Romanthick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: row man ts ihk
Sentence: Henry o' Tosis was such a romanthick, he couldn't score at a wallpaperer's convention. His chat-up lines had filled many emergency rooms with suspected vomiting epidemics. His lack of success with the fairer sex was always a mystery and a torment to his mother, with whom he lived. She would often scold him angrily, while swiping wildly about the room with her white stick.
Etymology: romantic , thick as in stupid
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COMMENTS:
poor Henry - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-11: 10:41:00
sticking in through romanthin and romanthick! Love the play on Henry for Hal O' Tosis. Kudos for being most crafty! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 12:08:00
the wallpaper convention is certainly thick with sticky romance I bet! - mweinmann, 2009-02-12: 09:13:00
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Comments:
silveryaspen - 2009-02-11: 12:33:00
Really enjoyed today's definition, James. It inspired such a remarkable variety of clever verbotomies,
Verbotomy - 2009-02-11: 22:33:00
Thanks Silveryaspen! After reading the words today, it looks like a few of us have fell victim to blunderlust! I guess there is more than a few romanthick libidohnos among us. ~ James
Verbotomy - 2010-08-25: 00:12:00
Today's definition was suggested by verbotomy. Thank you verbotomy. ~ James