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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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Poorworthanoia
Created by: Carole
Pronunciation: poor/pour, worth, anoia/annoyer
Sentence: His head held low, no eye contact, he wore his poorworthanoia like a permanent cloak!
Etymology: poor/ not high, worth/ value, anoia/ phobia
Esteemate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ess-teem-ate
Sentence: in order to esteemate his progress,he would often surprise his dinner guests with a pop quiz on how they felt about him
Etymology: estimate, esteem
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COMMENTS:
- erasmus, 2007-01-10: 11:41:00
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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
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
Oneuppish
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: one up ish
Sentence: maralyn was oneupish she always wanted to be better than the other girl.
Etymology: one upmanship...
Appeerciated
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: uh/peer/shee/eyt/ed
Sentence: She only said, did and wore what her friends approved of. She felt totally appeerciated.
Etymology: appreciated + peer
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COMMENTS:
I would like to show my appeerciation for this wonderful word, but I want to see what everyone else says... - wordmeister, 2007-01-10: 10:05:00
me too - me too - I was always a sucker for peer pressure (my whosize is very small) - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-10: 10:11:00
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Insecuridation
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: in-se-KYUR-i-DAY-shun
Sentence: Though lovely, it's clear the three woen in today's graphic suffer from insecuridation.
Etymology: from "insecurity" and "validation"
Egoutruvate
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation: e/gahw/trew/vate
Sentence: Shannon tended to egoutruvate too much and it often got her down since she couldn't read people properly - even if they were a Dr. Seuss book.
Etymology: From the words Ego, outer, and evaluate.
Laudmouth
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: lod/mowth
Sentence: Marilyn found that relying on a loyal laudmouth was the key to her success in the highly competitive world of birthday suit accessories.
Etymology: laud: to praise + mouth: an organ designed to emit favorable impressions
Mirrorworth
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: mirror worth
Sentence: Her mirrirworth is really down with that haircolor.
Etymology: mirror - what is reflected worth
Egoutsource
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ee-gout-source
Sentence: She's always fishing for compliments, I wish she didn't feel the need to constantly egoutsource.
Etymology: ego + outsource
Reflectesteem
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: ree-FLEKT-uh-steem
Sentence: Bonnie's reflectesteem was boosted by the drooling looks she got at the swimming pool.
Etymology: reflect + esteem
Whimsecure
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: wim se cure i tee
Sentence: Everything and everybody seemed to affect Gabe's opinion of himself - he was the model of whimsecurity.
Etymology: whim + security
Judgmentize
Created by: boogaloo909
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Said the trollop to the schoolmarm, "Don't judgementize me, madam."
Etymology:
Egosternelisation
Created by: SoldParadise
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Maria is a very egoesternelised person. Your Egosternelisation gets on my nervs...
Etymology: Ego + Externelisation
Exociation
Created by: Wildcat
Pronunciation: ek-zo-si-a-tion
Sentence: I really wish I could be exociated
Etymology: exo- external (to me) + appreciation
Flattrometry
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
I like this word - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-11: 13:34:00
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Renarciflect
Created by: themeanreds
Pronunciation: re-nar-se-flekt
Sentence: Do you think my constant renarciflecting makes me look stupid?
Etymology: Reflect + Narcissus = renarciflect
Survego
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: serv-e-go
Sentence: Jill relied upon her survego to decide how to feel about herself.
Etymology: survey + ego
Peervaluate
Created by: evhershey
Pronunciation: peer-val-you-ate
Sentence: Making heads turn as she entered a room allowed her to smile inwardly at the way others peervaluated her.
Etymology: peer + evaluate
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)
Psychociety
Created by: sonic
Pronunciation:
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Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
- sonic, 2007-01-10: 08:18:00
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Selfishesteem
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: self-ish-est-eem
Sentence: Models, celebrities and fashionistas all measure their selfishesteem in others' opinions.
Etymology: sef-esteem plus selfish.... simple!
Peervaluate
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: peer-val-you-ate
Sentence: Making heads turn as she entered a room allowed her to smile inwardly at the way others peervaluated her.
Etymology: peer + evaluate
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
Extrovaluate
Created by: tangledupinblue
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She extrovaluated her self as a 6 out of 10.
Etymology:
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
Peertropism
Created by: thejugglerseth
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She suffered from the worst case of peertropism that anyone had ever seen, she could not even put on a shirt without questioning what her friends would think.
Etymology: 'Peer' + 'trop' meaning oriented towards, +'ism' suffix denoting a condition.
Doesthisdressmakemelookfatting
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: duz-this-dress-make-me-look-fat-ting
Sentence: Sue wrote to Dr. Phil in a last-ditch effort to get over her low self esteem and constant doesthisdressmakemelookfatting.
Etymology: the age-old question
Vanitation
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: vani - tay - shun
Sentence: She's always been vanitational. Always judges herself on other peoples opinions...
Etymology: corruption of 'vanity'
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
Critivaluation
Created by: zephris
Pronunciation: krit-eh-val-u-a-shun
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
- zephris, 2007-01-10: 09:11:00
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Falothin
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Fa-lo-thin
Sentence: They are all fault looking en thinking wrong
Etymology:
Surplusfidence
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: sur-plus-fi-dens
Sentence: Without the surplusfidance of the gang, their leader would probably only have been a common playstation-geek.
Etymology: surplus - leftover + confidence
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COMMENTS:
Not too happy with this one. It was tricky to get the whole meaning without a dash this time. - allwise, 2007-01-10: 02:10:00
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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.
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)
Theiranoia
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: THERE-a-noy-a
Sentence: Jessica suffered a theiranoia so deep that she had "Does this make my butt look big" printed on the back of her T-shirt.
Etymology: Their (opinions) + paranoia
Absocialitize
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: ab-so-ciali-tize
Sentence: She absocialitized the crowd's reaction to her presentation.
Etymology: from absorb and social
Externation
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: ex-turn-a-shun
Sentence: Before we left the house she externated, "I hope that they like me. Otherwise, I think I'll just die."
Etymology: external + appreciation
Whosize
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: hu/si/z
Sentence: Your whosize not to be confused with your shoe size determines whether or not you get invited to all the "cool" parties.
Etymology: who + shoe size
Imtwentytwobucks
Created by: timmy
Pronunciation: Im twenty two bucks.
Sentence: Imtwentytwobuck
Etymology:
Joneskeepping
Created by: Madamemojo
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
That's brilliant. Maybe not 100% relevant to the definition, but a fantastic word. I may use it sometime. - ErWenn, 2007-01-11: 20:09:00
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Peerpoint
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: peer-poynt
Sentence: Nigel's reliance on peerpointing was fatally flawed; his inability to recognise that everyone thought he was a twat meant he rated himself far too highly
Etymology: peer (peer group) + point (score)
