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DEFINITION: To measure your success, or evaluate your self-worth, based on what other people think.
Verboticisms
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Egostroke
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: e-go-stroke
Sentence: I can't wait to get the results of my egostroke to see what my rating is.
Etymology: Ego - the self. Stroke - to soothe or give pleasure to.
Exteem
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /eks-'tEm/
Sentence: Carl always would ask his wife, his mother, or his bowling buddies for their opinion before saying how he exteemed anything.
Etymology: From ex- + esteem
Estemialism
Created by: goatmonkey
Pronunciation: ess-stem-ee-yall-is-m
Sentence: Go to a beauty pageant and you will find a whole bunch of estemeists. A person who uses estimialism is an estemialist.
Etymology: esteem + ialism
Critivaluation
Created by: zephris
Pronunciation: krit-eh-val-u-a-shun
Sentence:
Etymology:
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Egother
Created by: vixphilia
Pronunciation: EEE-gOH-ther
Sentence: I don't care about how you look like. Stop egothering yourself, it's cheap.
Etymology: Ego + Other
Esteemleeching
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: Ess-team-lee-ching
Sentence: Betty's esteemleaching was the only way she could get the energy to get in front of the camera for her porn shoots.
Etymology: Esteem + leeching
Reputemetrics
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: re-PEWT-MET-RICS
Sentence: Sally is a victim of reputemetrics, spending all her time worrying what her friends think of her.
Etymology: repute (the state of being held in high esteem and honor) + metrics (measurements)
Assessomate
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: ass-ess-o-mate
Sentence: Quentin was thrilled that Colin had assessomated his chances of the new post as 'better than good', and unusually paid for the first round of drinks.
Etymology: assess (determine) o (of) mate (friend)
Evalyouate
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: ee-val-yoo-ate
Sentence: I could tell by the shades of mascara on his lashes that Arnold was an evalyouater.
Etymology: evaluate + you
