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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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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)
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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Cuckoolduphoria
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: kuk-ohld-u-fore-eea
Sentence: As Hilary watched bill leave for the office with a box of havan's finest the old familiar cuckooluphoria rose in her belly.
Etymology: cuckold - the victim of sexual betrayal by a spourse. euphoria - an intense emotional feeling, usually postitive.
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COMMENTS:
Hillilarious! - wordmeister, 2007-06-01: 14:05:00
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Sinternet
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sin ter net
Sentence: When Jez E-Bell met Webb Site online, they had an instant connection. Despite the fact that she was already married to Ian O. Sent, Jez flirted shamelessly with her new domain guy and craved his cyber touch on the sinternet. Ian put up with it until the day he found Webb trying to breach her portal. Henceforth, her access was denied.
Etymology: Sin (Commit a sin;violate a moral law) & Internet (a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange)
Newlyweb
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: noōlēweb
Sentence: Joyce is a newlywed. Everybody knows how she hates to waste money so nobody was too shocked when she introduced her eHarmony newlyweb on Facebook. How could she have just left her paid-for account lapse without getting full use? Her real world husband isn’t sure how he feels about his virtual counterpart.
Etymology: newlywed (a recently married person) + web (short for World Wide Web)
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.]
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
Affairate
Created by: blaine
Pronunciation: Affair-ate
Sentence: My husband would have an affairate if he ever walked in on us.
Etymology: Affair; Irate
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