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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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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
Affairate
Created by: blaine
Pronunciation: Affair-ate
Sentence: My husband would have an affairate if he ever walked in on us.
Etymology: Affair; Irate
Woebegonorrhea
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: woe/begone/or/ea
Sentence: He felt an intense wave of woebegonorrhea when he discovered his girlfriend was cheating on him and just as he was about to tell her about the test results from the clinic
Etymology: woebegone + gonorrhea
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COMMENTS:
It's a cruel world. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:44:00
He never should have hooked up with SyPhillis. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 09:11:00
Nor Clay Middea, H. Ivy and Donna Vanosis - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:42:00
I think VD (Verbotomy Dialogue) is very contagious - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 12:34:00
dinner was going well, the potatoes were cooked to perfection.. the meat was tender and the gravy she'd made was delicious.. but the evening went downhill after he tasted Her Peas - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 18:48:00
No doubt someone had been engaging in riceque behaviour and enjoying some lentitillation with the peas. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 21:50:00
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Cheatercheaterbangbang
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: chee-tah-chee-tah-bang-bang
Sentence: the detective surveyed the crime scene, and judging by the evidence at hand it looked like the husband had discovered them together and suffered a dramatic bout of cheatercheaterbangbang
Etymology: cheater, bang, chitty chitty bang bang
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COMMENTS:
Was the crime scene the back seat of a car by any chance? - petaj, 2007-06-01: 04:44:00
was he a first off fender? - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 05:58:00
at least they won't have trouble establishing his automotive - rikboyee, 2007-06-01: 06:17:00
I suppose any van dyke jokes would be in bad taste. - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 06:33:00
They caught the Love Bug. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:41:00
Ahh the good old days when only cars and cattle were horny and men could wield a crank. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:14:00
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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
Killherinstinct
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kill-hur-in-stinkt
Sentence: Seeing them together for the first time, she was overcome with killherinstinct. Fortunately, she easily got herself under control, as she had another hot date lined up for the evening.
Etymology: killer instinct, her
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COMMENTS:
lethal! - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 06:31:00
It was fortunate, otherwise there would have been a murdher investigation. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:39:00
If she had first thought to khilim, she could have consoled herself with a beautiful Persian carpet. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:21:00
great word Purple and brilliant comments from all - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 09:30:00
Yes, yes. Best word by a mile. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 13:52:00
As always, well done purple. - Osomatic, 2007-06-01: 16:22:00
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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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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