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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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Insufferation
Created by: livejuicy
Pronunciation: in-suff-er-a-shun
Sentence: When he saw them embrace, he could only exclaim in insufferation - "What's going on?"
Etymology: insufferable + desolation
Monogocidal
Created by: Katisms1
Pronunciation: Mon-AWG-oh-side-ull
Sentence: On hearing news of his infidelity, her immediate response was swift and monogocidal.
Etymology: Monogomy + homocide: The murder of a monogomous relationship.
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COMMENTS:
The death of a monogamous relationship, or the death *following* a monogamous relationship! Nice wordplay. - mplsbohemian, 2007-06-03: 13:29:00
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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)
Cheatatrophy
Created by: franticff
Pronunciation: cheet-A-tro-fee
Sentence: Feist suffered a cheatatrophy late last night while stalkbooking her lover.
Etymology: of French escheoir "befall by chance, happen, devolve," atrophia from Greek,"a wasting away, a waste of time!"
Deniattack
Created by: brandie
Pronunciation: dee-neye-attack
Sentence: When I found him in bed with someone else, I started screaming and then had a deniattack.
Etymology: Denial attack
Facenooky
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fāsnoŏkē
Sentence: Carlos is completely faithful to his wife but when she is away on business he can*t resist getting a little facenooky. He makes a point of keeping his privacy settings buttoned up tighter than a nun*s habit. His wife doesn*t even know he has an account.
Etymology: facebook (a social networking website) + nooky (sexual activity or intercourse)
Janger
Created by: syerraecho
Pronunciation: Jan-ger (sounds like anger with a j)
Sentence: He seethed with janger upon seeing his loved one in his best friends arms.
Etymology: Jealousy + Anger
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COMMENTS:
Good word! Got one of my votes today!! - Stevenson0, 2007-06-01: 15:40:00
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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