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DEFINITION: n. A person who habitually looks for love in the all the wrong places and wonders why it always turns out wrong. v. To look for love in the wrong places.
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Roameo
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: rome-ee-oh
Sentence: He was getting lots of action, but couldn't find a nice girl to settle down with him. Could it be he was a roameo? He still hoped to hear wedding bells when he took that thirteenth step at Sex Addicts Anonymous.
Etymology: Romeo (Shakespeare's doomed lover) + roam (to go from place to place without purpose or direction.)
Romanthick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: row man ts ihk
Sentence: Henry o' Tosis was such a romanthick, he couldn't score at a wallpaperer's convention. His chat-up lines had filled many emergency rooms with suspected vomiting epidemics. His lack of success with the fairer sex was always a mystery and a torment to his mother, with whom he lived. She would often scold him angrily, while swiping wildly about the room with her white stick.
Etymology: romantic , thick as in stupid
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COMMENTS:
poor Henry - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-11: 10:41:00
sticking in through romanthin and romanthick! Love the play on Henry for Hal O' Tosis. Kudos for being most crafty! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 12:08:00
the wallpaper convention is certainly thick with sticky romance I bet! - mweinmann, 2009-02-12: 09:13:00
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Smlugg
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: smlug
Sentence: Shelly, was shmlooking for smlug in all the shmlong places!
Etymology: sssmmm...then a Slug - A lump of metal or glass prepared for further processing. In this case, a s-m-lugg is a person that isn't recognised as a good catch.
Chairub
Created by: GlobalGallery
Pronunciation: chair-ub
Sentence: Cupid's arrow had struck her, right through the heart. From now on there was only one serial killer for her and it was Ivan. His scarred shaven head and crazy eyes made her weak at the knees. She was his chairub and she fought hard to save him from the chair, despite the 11 witnesses who saw his axe wielding escapade. Her scented love letters were the last thing he would read, before his eyeballs boiled and exploded from the 2000 volt current that would pass through his oddly shaped head.
Etymology: 1.cherub - an angelic baby eg Cupid the Roman God of erotic love. 2. chair (electric) - a device used for capital punishment for the most heinous crimes.
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COMMENTS:
Clever! Also plays on RUB, meaning difficulty or dilemma.. - readerwriter, 2009-02-11: 10:30:00
Electtrifying! Shocking! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:41:00
What a sentence! Too bad it couldn't have been commuted...where is that Governor when you need him? - Nosila, 2009-02-14: 23:19:00
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Halholetroll
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: HAL HOLE TROLE
Sentence: Ever since she and Hal broke up she's got that void to fill...so where else can you go to fill it other than the same kind of hellhole...Hal's favourite watering hole. When she gets that look in her eyes, you can tell she's doing the Halholetroll.
Etymology: HAL: a man's name HELLHOLE: terrible place WATERING HOLE: slang for drinking place TROLL: slang for looking for a member of the opposite sex by putting out bait and waiting for someone to show interest
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COMMENTS:
Gives a whole new meaning to holesome! etymology fits 'wrong places' to a T! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:31:00
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Scornicated
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: skôrnikāted
Sentence: After his blind date fell through — some lame excuse about a car accident and coma — Tim decided to see if he could get some action at the new bar in town. As he entered he thought to himself ”My lucky night. Must be lady’s night, the place is full of chicks”. As he made his way around the bar every eye seemed to follow him as well as a mood of disgust. Finally he left the Silver Beaver without scoring but feeling scornicated.
Etymology: scorn (feel or express contempt or derision for) + fornicate (sexual intercourse between non-married partners)
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COMMENTS:
Silver Beaver...Dam! - Nosila, 2010-08-25: 22:08:00
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Amourid
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: a/mour/id
Sentence: Joe's love life has become an amourid situation because he cruises all night diners and old age homes for "the one".
Etymology: AMOURID - from AMOUR (love, romance) + ARID (barren or unproductive)
Blunderlust
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: BLUN-der-lust
Sentence: Heloise once again found herself suffering the pangs of failed blunderlust, looking for love in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons, and feeling used, abused and definitely discarded....and of course, vowing once again to never go that route again.
Etymology: Blend of blunder and lust, and a play on the word 'wanderlust'...(a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about)
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COMMENTS:
At one time or another, doesn't everyone go through a case of blunderlust? Unforgettably good! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 12:14:00
Enjoyed this perfect blend of blunder and lust. - mweinmann, 2009-02-12: 09:10:00
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Proflidate
Created by: Negatrev
Pronunciation: Proff-lee-date
Sentence: Dave will never find love while he continues to be proflidate. Sharon realized that proflidating was getting her nowhere.
Etymology: From dating (To go on a date or dates with) and profligate (adj. unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women") AND (noun. someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently or a wasteful person)
Noblissromantic
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: no-bliss-ro-MAN-tick
Sentence: Rj was a noblissromantic, always on the quest for that holy grail of perfect love and affection. Anything less that fell short of perfect bliss--and let's face it, all love falls short at one point or another--would send him off on another quest and leave a trail of heartbroken and confused victims in his wake.
Etymology: Alteration of hopeless romantic.
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COMMENTS:
Nice play on 'noblesse oblige' also. Great create. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 12:03:00
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Comments:
silveryaspen - 2009-02-11: 12:33:00
Really enjoyed today's definition, James. It inspired such a remarkable variety of clever verbotomies,
Thanks Silveryaspen! After reading the words today, it looks like a few of us have fell victim to blunderlust! I guess there is more than a few romanthick libidohnos among us. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by verbotomy. Thank you verbotomy. ~ James