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DEFINITION: n. Anxiety caused by fear that one's body odor may offend others; often exacerbated when required to remove heavy sweaters, or footwear.v. To worry about the way you smell.
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Funkaphobia
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: funk-uh-FOE-be-ah
Sentence: Bobby's piercing body odor caused him acute funkaphobia whenever he went to the beach.
Etymology: funk, phobia
Instinktiveness
Created by: Noble
Pronunciation: in-stink-tive-ness
Sentence: When you just know, without actually taking your shoes off, that there will indeed be an unpleasant smell...
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-04: 10:42:00
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Whiffsteria
Created by: jonzerofourteen
Pronunciation: wif-ster-ee-uh
Sentence: Tom usually suffered terribly from whiffsteria. His anxiety about people smelling his body odor forced him to seek therapy. And what a change! Thanks to his therapist, he still stunk to high heaven, but he didn't worry about it anymore. His whiffsteria was cured.
Etymology: whiff (trace of odor or smell) + hysteria (outburst of emotion or fear)
Odorboding
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: ode-or-bode-ing
Sentence: Hippies have no sense of odorboding.
Etymology: odor + foreboding
Smelfconcious
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: smelf-con-shus
Sentence: when i realised i would be expected to take off my shoes i started to feel very smelfconcious
Etymology: smell, selfconcious
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COMMENTS:
Hehe! Love the sound of it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-26: 05:02:00
love it! - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-26: 10:50:00
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Scaredsniff
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Sk-air-d-sniff
Sentence: When the GP asked Tom to remove his trainers in order to hop on the couch, Tom was Scaredsniff, that the doctor would feel nauseous with just a slight whiff of the awful odour emanating from his smelly tootsies.
Etymology: Scared(Feeling or showing fear or nervousness.) + Sniff(smell by drawing in air through the nose) = Scaredsniff
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COMMENTS:
love it! - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-03: 12:09:00
I smell a winner... - Nosila, 2008-07-03: 20:11:00
Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-04: 06:42:00
Mock on! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-05: 05:35:00
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Stinxeity
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌstɪŋˈkzaɪədi/
Sentence: Commercials for the deoderant Sure make good use of people's tendency for stinxeity.
Etymology: From stink + anxiety
Odorosis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: o/dor/os/is
Sentence: When ever she begins to sweat, her odorosis sets in and out comes the spray-on deodorant with its mists and whiffs of polluting fragrance.
Etymology: odor ('odour' in Canada because we stink differently from the rest of the world and put the 'u' in to blame you - "It can't be us stinking, we're Canadian.")+ neurosis
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COMMENTS:
like the Canadian reference - porsche, 2007-04-26: 11:26:00
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Sniffrightened
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: snif - fryt - nd
Sentence: Waldo felt sniffrightened when he was asked to take off his shoes. Had had taken Maggie to a Japanese restaurant and he couldn't remember if he had washed his feet.
Etymology: sniff, fright
Limburgerous
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: lim BER ger us
Sentence: "Oh no. I can’t take off my boots! My limburgerous feet’ll knock them to the ground!"
Etymology: Adjective from: limb, odoriferous and Limburger cheese (a VERY smelly cheese).
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COMMENTS:
cheesy word...love it. - Nosila, 2009-11-12: 17:16:00
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Today's definition was suggested by magenta.
Thank you magenta! ~ James
Vonnegut Week's top Verbotomist, Rikboyee, reveals his secret creative strategy! Read The Verobotomy Interview: Rikboyee on the Verbotomy Blog.
Jabberwocky - 2007-04-26: 10:59:00
I really enjoyed reading the Rikboyee interview. Perhaps you could choose random verbotomists to interview from time to time. It adds yet another dimension to an already fabulous game.
Hey Jabberwocky, Excellent idea! Are you, perchance, offering yourself for a splinterview? (Note: Splinterview is word created by Rikboyee to describe the way I spliced together our email exchange to create the "interview" for the blog.) I would love to splinterview the winner each week, and I see you are very near the top of the list... I have also heard rumours, although it is not official yet, that the winner this week will be awarded a Verbotomy Cup (See the sneak preview here) imprinted with the Author's own Verboticism. ~ James
Jabberwocky - 2007-04-26: 14:20:00
While it would be a frabjous (blend of fair, fabulous and joyous, taken from the Lewis Carroll poem about the Jabberwocky)honour to be splinterviewed, I have been close many weeks but have a difficult time maintaining my stamina. I suspect the winner this week will be Petaj who has put in some superlative words. There are also several dark horses moving up as well, along with the indomitable Stevenson0. The cup is tempting though - great idea
OOh that cup looks great. I hope I can hold on to my lead with those dark horses closing in.
Mustang - 2008-07-03: 06:14:00
Psychosis....good one. gmta?
Not to be THAT guy but shouldn\'t the first line be \"You must BE so hot in those boots\"?
Today's definition was suggested by magenta. Thank you magenta. ~ James