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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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Desoulashun
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: des/sohl/a/shun
Sentence: When he caught Jenny with Robbie, complete and utter desoulashun overtook him.
Etymology: desolation + soulmate + shun
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COMMENTS:
Until he turned to Vicky for consoulation - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:42:00
Vicky, that soultry nixhim! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:47:00
He was probably just looking for some soulass - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 09:04:00
or maybe more ass than soul - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:09:00
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Avatarrangement
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: av - ah - tar - ranj - ment
Sentence: Lucy had an avatarrangement with Benjamin; her virtual friend on "My Other World" where her character looked nothing like herself. Because she was having an intimate relationship with her avatar and not her "real" self, she felt innocent and did not understand why her husband was upset.
Etymology: avatar, arrangement
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COMMENTS:
avatariffic word - Nosila, 2009-12-28: 22:19:00
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Fauxtimacy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: faux/ti/macy
Sentence: Susan needs to have an on-line fauxtimacy to make her life at home during the day bearable.
Etymology: faux + intimacy
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COMMENTS:
faux she's a jolly good fellow! - Nosila, 2009-12-28: 22:20:00
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Flirtual
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Flur-tu-al
Sentence: Miss Slimmy Websurfer was such a flurtual person. Poor Mr. Bonehead Websurfer had no idea how many hours she spent online chatting up other guys.
Etymology: Flirt- To make playfully romantic or sexual overtures. Part of "Virtual"- Simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network: virtual conversations in a chatroom.
Confudulterage
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /kənfjuˈdʌltʌˌɹeɪdʒ/
Sentence: I was so overcome with confudulterage that I couldn't decide whether to scream, cry, break something, storm out of the room, or run off to join the circus.
Etymology: From confused + adultery + rage
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COMMENTS:
The above sentence is not meant to be autobiographical in any sense whatsoever. I just wanted to avoid using a gendered pronoun, and I got tired of trying to think of an elegant way of doing so in the third person. Thankfully, I've never had to feel confudulterage before, and hopefully I never will. - ErWenn, 2007-06-01: 03:55:00
Here's to monotony...er... monogamy! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:44:00
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Affairate
Created by: blaine
Pronunciation: Affair-ate
Sentence: My husband would have an affairate if he ever walked in on us.
Etymology: Affair; Irate
Cyberfauxmance
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SI-ber-fo-mance
Sentence: Rhonda was heavily involved in cyberfaumance, carrying on multiple cyber 'affairs' with on line contacts whom she'd never actually met nor ever intended to meet.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'cyber' (a combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,”) 'faux' (fake, artificial) and 'romance' (a love affair, esp an intense and happy but short-lived affair involving young people)
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