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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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Jealousy
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: I think you know.
Sentence: Alex kept trying to think of the word to describe what he felt when he caught his girlfriend with another guy, but a quick scouring of dictionary.com gave it to him: jealousy.
Etymology: Um, it's jealousy.
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COMMENTS:
Eek, I'm afraid I came off sarcastic. Sorry. - mplsbohemian, 2007-06-02: 03:43:00
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Flirtualist
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: flir-two-list
Sentence: Franny was quite the flirtualist with Frank until Fa´moused found out.
Etymology: Flirt-To make playfully romantic overtures. Part of Virtual and also in part of Dual...Having a double character or purpose.
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COMMENTS:
It sounds more like flirt + virtual, which is probably part of the charm. :) - Discoveria, 2012-09-29: 12:41:00
Thank you~ You got it! It sure is... ;) - abrakadeborah, 2012-12-06: 14:38:00
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Betraifuror
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: bee tray ah few roar
Sentence: When he saw her in his brother's arms the betraifuror began in earnest.
Etymology: betray - traitorous behavior furor - rage
Vileous
Created by: LindsayStar
Pronunciation: V-ile-ous
Sentence: what is the vileuos creature doing to her
Etymology:
Jiltidluv
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: Jill - tid - love
Sentence: Although he was positive his wife was having an affair, he chose to ignore his feelings of jiltidluv and live in denial.
Etymology: Jilted (to reject or abandon) + Love
Cyberphilanderer
Created by: SnatchRaffle
Pronunciation: sigh-ber-fill-an-dur-er
Sentence: Steve! Are you on craigslist again? I knew you were a cyberphilanderer. What does her web browser have that I don't?
Etymology: Cyber(space) + philanderer = cyberphilanderer
Jodicide
Created by: ngajoe
Pronunciation: Joh-dee-side
Sentence: After reading the Instant Messenger transcript between his girlfriend and someone named "SweetLove384", Em felt a cold wave of jodicide swell up in his heart, and he knew now that only his hunting rifle and a 4x scope could find a cure.
Etymology: "Jody" [fictional character in Army horror stories who steals the hearts of a soldier's loved ones during deployments.] + cide [Middle English, from Old French (from Latin -cīda, killer) and Latin -cīdium, killing, both from caedere, to strike, kill.]
Cuckoldrage
Created by: gdread
Pronunciation: KUHK-old-rayj
Sentence: Seeing Gwen in Cleo's arms drove Will into a wild cuckoldrage.
Etymology: guess
Furospicious
Created by: bubbos
Pronunciation: Fu-ro-spi-cious
Sentence: Tom got home early from work today. However, an uneasy feeling of furospicious lingers in Tom's head as he hears Anna's voice moaning from the bedroom upstairs.
Etymology: Furious - extreme anger, often uncontrollable and unmanageable Suspicious - predictable response from hearing moaning upstairs
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