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DEFINITION: v. To seek compliments and/or support by insulting oneself or by complaining about the difficulty of one's life. n. A person who uses self-deprecation as flattery bait.
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Egoflagellation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ee - go - fladj - uh - LAY - shun
Sentence: Giselle's self esteem was so low she resorted to harsh criticism of herself through incessant egoflagellation in hopes of enticing a favorable rebuttal from family and friends.
Etymology: blend of ego and flagellation
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COMMENTS:
Fantastic word! - Tigger, 2008-02-27: 02:40:00
You got it whipped! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-27: 11:46:00
nice blend of words - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-27: 13:20:00
Great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-27: 15:43:00
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Flatterplant
Created by: freiflug
Pronunciation: /flætərplænt/
Sentence: "By telling me how hard it is for good-looking women to find an honest guy, Karen flatterplanted me." "Jessica needs to be constantly reminded of her stunning physique and overall popularity. She can't survive one day without a compliment. She's such a flatterplant."
Etymology: flatter: to compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour; to enhance someone's vanity by praising them; to portray something to advantage plant: (transitive) to place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow; (transitive) to place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit
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COMMENTS:
Good combo. - artr, 2010-05-10: 12:29:00
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Autoselfpitiate
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: auto-self-pity-ate
Sentence: Here it comes. My wife puts on the dress and autoselfpitiates by asking me the age-old-loaded-death-question..."does this make my butt look big?"
Etymology: auto; self-pity
Complitangler
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: compleat angler
Sentence: Pedro cast down his eyes and with false modesty declared that his handmade flies were very low quality. A complitangler, Pedro was always playing down his fishing skills to lure some praise from the crowd in his local pub, the Cod and Catfish. This time it backfired, Nemo put him in his plaice and told him not to hawrasse them with his self-deprecation. Pedro skated out the door and tackled the crew in the beer garden. He was always fishing for compliments.
Etymology: compli(ment) - words of praise + angler (fisherman) Song: Pedro the fisherman Book: The Compleat Angler
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COMMENTS:
Love a reel good fish story, just for the halibut! No flies on you. - Nosila, 2008-12-11: 02:13:00
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Malegodox
Created by: shelbs897
Pronunciation: mal-ego-dox
Sentence:
Etymology: mal: bad ego: self dox: praise
Flatterbate
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: FLAT ur bate
Sentence: Ethel couldn't stand another lunch with Marcia, who used every opportunity to flatterbate in order to draw out sympathetic disagreement with her negative comments about herself.
Etymology: combined form of flatter, to praise insincerely or profusely, and masturbate, to pleasure oneself.
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COMMENTS:
Sorry, too obvious given the definition (misspelling of "bait" was an irresistable clue). - stache, 2008-02-27: 15:29:00
There's no way to make this more enticing! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-27: 17:46:00
It has such allure! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-27: 17:48:00
you must have entered this late in the day - great word - bookowl, 2008-02-29: 16:32:00
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Selfbully
Created by: mrali613
Pronunciation: self-bully
Sentence: eintsein had bought brand new sneakers to go along with his skinny jeans. He knew he looked great but no one had complimented on them. So he started selfbullying himself to get compliments.
Etymology: hindi
Amorport
Created by: oliviasull
Pronunciation: uh-mor-port
Sentence: The girl with the purple dress was amorportating and I was just sick of it!
Etymology: the love of getting support
Egoflog
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: EE-go-flog
Sentence: Having very low self esteem, Lindy would often resort to egoflogging in order to rationalize her self induced sense of worthlessness.
Etymology: Blend of 'ego' (sense of one's worth or importance) and 'flog' (to beat with or as if with a rod or whip, to criticize harshly)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Maxine. Thank you Maxine. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Maxine. Thank you Maxine. ~ James
mrali613 - 2011-09-22: 13:46:00
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