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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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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
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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Cheatesponse
Created by: nbsalomon
Pronunciation: chee-tah-spawn-sss
Sentence: Carl's cheatesponse to Carol's affair with Michael AND Thomas made Carol feel bad.
Etymology: cheat and response
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
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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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
Prediletdown
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: pree/dill/et/down
Sentence: He suffered a massive prediletdown when he saw her in the arms of another
Etymology: predictable + let down
Betrayaleruption
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: bee-tray-all-e-rup-shun
Sentence: When she found the lipstick on his shirt collar, she felt the betrayaleruption of fury welling up in her heart.
Etymology: Betrayl + erruption (a somewhat predictable but not manageable sudden violent discharge)
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