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DEFINITION: n. An extremely intimate, but completely innocent, relationship with an online "partner". v. To be virtually unfaithful while strictly maintaining physical loyalty.
Verboticisms
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Evenge
Created by: geoamnesia
Pronunciation: "E" as in "Ea[r¨]" + Revenge
Sentence: When he first saw them together, he became obsessed with thoughts of evenge.
Etymology: Electronic + Revenge
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COMMENTS:
He just wanted to get even. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 21:58:00
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Prediletdown
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: pree/dill/et/down
Sentence: He suffered a massive prediletdown when he saw her in the arms of another
Etymology: predictable + let down
Affairate
Created by: blaine
Pronunciation: Affair-ate
Sentence: My husband would have an affairate if he ever walked in on us.
Etymology: Affair; Irate
Freakingout
Created by: lipstickpowdernpaint
Pronunciation: Free-kin-out
Sentence: I am completely like freakingout!
Etymology:
Confloved
Created by: kalieS
Pronunciation: Con-FLUH-VD
Sentence: As he caught his lover with another man, he became very confloved.
Etymology: Confused + Love = and confusion in love
Lovix
Created by: RubyWry
Pronunciation: Luv-ix
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Thats a great word nice going - RubyWry, 2007-06-02: 18:08:00
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Trystual
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: trist-u-al
Sentence: Laura's trystual relationship was becoming more exciting than the real one she had with her husband, and she began to spend more and more time online. Her husband began to suspect that she might be having a virtual affair the night she called and said she'd be working late and wouldn't be home for supper, especially because she worked from home and the call came from her upstairs office.
Etymology: tryst: an agreement between lovers to meet at a certain place or time + virtual: existing in essence though not in fact
Infidelitantrum
Created by: Trystera
Pronunciation: in-fih-DELL-ih-TAHN-trum
Sentence: When Allen came home early, only to walk in on his wife with his best friend, there was no escaping his infidelitantrum, nor the accompanying .44 rounds.
Etymology: infidelity + tantrum, with Latinate pronunciation pattern (because it sounds better that way)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Clayton. Thank you Clayton! ~ James
Clayton, this definition has prompted some inspired commenting.
Yes! You guys are so funny, I can hardly wait to read the book. ~ James
Clayton - 2007-06-01: 13:56:00
Heh. It seems like we've all been there. Fortunately, it's been several years for me.
I have made a couple of changes today. First, I have changed the way the Verboticisms are displayed so that now it shows the words from every Verbroom. I have also added a "Show All" link which lists all the verboticims of the day on a single page! Secondly I have added a comment tracking system so you can track all your conversations. If these changes cause a problem, let me know! ~ James
Thank you for the show all. I was thinking about the "tag cloud" idea. It would work well on the author pages, where the weighting for each word could be displayed by relative size of font. Then we could check out our best scoring words, and it wouldn't interfere with voting. Tracking conversations is a neat idea too. Are all the comments from every word in the one "track" or would we have to track each one individuall?
Today's definition was suggested by Clayton. Thank you Clayton. ~ James