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'How could she bring him without a leash.'

DEFINITION: n. An unleashed pet (or boyfriend) which is running amuck, chasing cars, eating garbage, and jumping on innocent bystanders. v. To unleash your pet and let him or her run wild.

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Boornado

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: boor-ney-doh

Sentence: Jill's boyfriend is not a welcome sight at many of her friend's parties. It doesn't take but a few drinks to turn him into a boornado.

Etymology: boor (a churlish, rude, or unmannerly person) + tornado (a localized, violently destructive windstorm)

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Feralunatrog

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: FEAR-uh-LOON-uh-trog

Sentence: Sookie and Sandy sure liked to party- The food wasn’t good but the toasts they were hearty!- The music grew louder, the word passed around- Someone invited the bums from downtown… Soon it grew nasty-the punch it got drained-- Some fool brought a pit bull-The punches they rained- On innocent drunkards who passed out quite early- The riot squad turned out that night to be surly. So next time you party with Sookie and Sandy- Come with a tazer and keep the mace handy. Come with a buddy, a spouse or a dog, but... Please don’t bring a FERALUNATROG

Etymology: FERAL+lUNAtic+TROGlodyte=FERALUNATROG.....FERAL: of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast, having escaped from domestication and become wild; Medieval Latin feralis, from Latin fera wild animal, from feminine of ferus wild 1604.....LUNATIC: affected with lunacy, wildly foolish; Middle English lunatik, from Anglo-French or Late Latin; Anglo-French lunatic, from Late Latin lunaticus, from Latin luna; from the erroneous belief that lunacy fluctuated with the phases of the moon.....TROGLODYTE: a member of any of various peoples (as in antiquity) who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves; Latin troglodytae, plural, from Greek trōglodytai, from trōglē hole, cave (akin to Greek trōgein to gnaw, Armenian aracem I lead to pasture, graze) + dyein to enter.

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COMMENTS:

Roaring with laughter at your silly rhyme, and your dilly of a verbotomy! Funtastic! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-19: 02:35:00

Please don’t bring a FERALUNATROG - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-19: 02:58:00

dang it cut off all I said...good one! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-19: 02:59:00

metrohumanx Thanks, all. I was pushing the envelope with that one....?! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-19: 03:02:00

metrohumanx YEARS of Academy training.....WASTED! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-19: 03:13:00

Insanely good. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-19: 20:35:00

You got my vote! Excellent word! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-22: 22:46:00

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Anamuck

Created by: Cannator

Pronunciation: An-a-muck

Sentence: Her anamuck is peeing on the neighbours plants again.

Etymology: An - Animal Muck - From the sentence "to run-a-muck"

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx Sometimes they WALK amok!~ - metrohumanx, 2009-03-19: 02:01:00

Welcome. How clever to spell amok, amuck, for the muck the anamuck was spreading in your sentence! Good start! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-19: 02:22:00

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Beauserk

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: bo zerk

Sentence: When Candy brought her boyfriend Randy to a social function, after one drink he would go beauserk on her and embarrass her. Randy was the reason the word Party Animal was created...

Etymology: Beau (boyfriend,lover) & Berserk (to run amok, be frenzied,work one's self into a rampage)

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Eramcipate

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ee ram sip ate

Sentence: Mary had a pet black ram, His name was OBAAAma, She eramcipated him one day, And landed in the slammer. ObAAAma sprung her from the joint, He did not want to disappoint, He pulled the wool o'er the warden's eyes, And Mary flocked off, without good byes. When OBAAma took our Mary home, Our Heroes looked like Mutton Jeff, But He said, "Mary, I love Ewe", And now Mary has a little lamb! Shears!

Etymology: Emancipate (to liberate, allow freedon to, to set free) & Ram (uncastrated adult male sheep)

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COMMENTS:

Laughing so hard I can barely type! You are so BAAAA'D you are flambtastic! Luv it! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-19: 02:28:00

Definitely funny and creative. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-19: 20:23:00

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Boyfrienzy

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: boifrenzē

Sentence: It was always the same. They would go to a party. The girls would gather in the kitchen and exchange gossip. The boys would gather near the TV and at the slightest provocation start acting like fools. The girls would act disgusted but were secretly envious to join the boyfrienzy.

Etymology: boyfriend (a regular male companion with whom one has a romantic or sexual relationship) + frenzy (a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior)

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COMMENTS:

I've seen a few girlfrienzies too! - wayoffcenter, 2009-03-19: 06:58:00

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Woofensive

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: wuf + fens + ev

Sentence: Laurie's dog was the most woofensive animal we had ever seen. She allowed Wally (she called him wallydog) to aggressively go after her guest's food, run after kids on bicycles and last but not least, relieve himself on everyone's legs.....

Etymology: Woof and Offensive

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Your etymology and word are so good they are something to bark about! Woof! Woof! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-19: 13:39:00

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Anarchipal

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: ann-are-kick-pal

Sentence: Mae brought her anarchipal Jules to the corn roast on Saturday. It probably was the worst place to bring him, ever since he found the garbage bin, he wouldn't stop prancing around while making lude gestures with the eaten cobs of corn.

Etymology: anarchic + pal (buddy)

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Disobediablo

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: diss-o-bee-dee-ahb-loh

Sentence: Yes, he was certainly a disobediablo. Contemplating the ceiling from her hospital bed of traction and her future plans for Hellmutt, her combination Pitt Bull-Chichuahua, Absentia knew even the Dog Whisperer couldn't help.

Etymology: DISOBEDIENT, meaning failing or refusing to obey + DIABLO, Spanish for devil

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COMMENTS:

Devilishly clever. - Mustang, 2009-03-19: 19:27:00

hahaha! - chaiandallthatjazz, 2009-03-23: 16:03:00

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Crazybeau

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: cray-zee-bow

Sentence: One drink and out of sight, my soon to be ex, goes totally crazybeau.

Etymology: crazy (wild, mad, uncontrolled) + beau (boyfriend)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-03-19: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James

silveryaspen - 2009-03-19: 13:42:00
The creative humor of all was dog gone good today!

silveryaspen - 2009-03-19: 13:47:00
Kudos to the poets, too! Silly rhymes with that grain of true! And an upbleat to the one about ewe!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-10-01: 00:20:00
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James

galwaywegian - 2010-10-01: 03:58:00
domesthickated

galwaywegian - 2010-10-01: 03:59:00
oops!