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DEFINITION: v. To engage in intimate activities with your "ex", even when you know that you will never, ever, get back together again. n. Intimate activities undertaken with an ex-lover
Verboticisms
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Remance
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ree-manse
Sentence: When Gloria hads recurring bouts of regret over breaking up with Mark she engages him in remance, finding opportunities here and there to cuddle and make out, though she has no desire to rekindle the relationship itself.
Etymology: Play on the word 'romance' with prefix 're' - to do over
Exsex
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: ECKS-seks
Sentence: "I had the best exsex with Mona last night," Travis beamed. "I shoulda divorced her YEARS ago!"
Etymology: ex + sex
Rebooty
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rēboōtē
Sentence: Rob and Jill know that they will never be able to get back together. There have been too many hurtful incidents for that to be possible. Despite that they can’t seem to resist the lure of the rebooty call. For a short time they can forget the past, as long as one of them departs quickly, before they can start talking.
Etymology: reboot (an act of booting a computer system again) + booty call (a sexual invitation or rendezvous)
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COMMENTS:
nice one - galwaywegian, 2011-02-11: 05:11:00
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Sexpostfacto
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: sex + post + fact + oh!
Sentence: Once in a while she gets drunk and lonely and shows up at 3 AM for a little sexpostfacto.
Etymology: sex & "ex post facto"
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COMMENTS:
Oooooh. Lawguistics. Good one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-16: 18:02:00
This is smarter than my own word! - Discoveria, 2007-02-16: 18:23:00
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Exaction
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Ex-action
Sentence: Looks like he'll be getting a little ex action with his old girlfriend.
Etymology: ex: ex-girfriend/boyfriend, action: well, duh.
Amortification
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: amor/ti/fi/cay/shun
Sentence: They secumbed to amortification knowing that their love was dead and gone - how sad
Etymology: amore + mortification
Anulltery
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: uh-null-tur-ee
Sentence: Although she knew it was over for good between them, Bob looked so hot in that purple spandex thong that Sue could not stop herself from committing anulltery.
Etymology: anull, adultery
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COMMENTS:
Congrats purpleartichokes - 5 consecutive great words this week - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-16: 10:31:00
I just have to add my vote here - great words all week!! - w5lf9s, 2007-02-16: 12:07:00
Thanks Jabberwocky. Being snowed in for 2 days certainly helped. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-16: 12:21:00
Thank you w... !! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-16: 20:40:00
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Flinger
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: fling-grr
Sentence: Judy and Mark broke up in March, but flingered together until Mark decided to get together with Robert.
Etymology: fling + linger
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COMMENTS:
Hehe! From flingo to flingering. It has been a very short romance. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-16: 15:20:00
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Bonusex
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: bo-nus-eks
Sentence: They ha a horrible break-up, but since neither of the cared to please the other anymore, the bonusex was amazing!
Etymology: bonus + sex
Exchecker
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ex/chek/ur
Sentence: Dan was never satisfied that his current relationship was as good as the last so he became an avid exchecker. He refers to himself as Chancellor of the Exchecker.
Etymology: ex + check+ exchequer
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COMMENTS:
check, mate! - Nosila, 2011-02-11: 15:15:00
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Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-02-17: 08:10:00
You know, if everyone could vote an unlimited number of times, or if there was a ranking system, instead of a voting system, that would take care of several problems at once. It would fix the late-post deficiency as well as the too-many-good-words problem.
Discoveria - 2007-02-17: 09:33:00
Maybe no new words should be displayed until there are at least 10, so you won't be tempted to vote until there's a sizeable batch of words.
ErWenn - 2007-02-18: 10:16:00
Or even just switch the vote to yesterday's verboticisms while people are creating today's.
Discoveria - 2007-02-18: 18:37:00
That would have the added (mostly good) effect of giving me something to do on Verbotomy on Saturdays.
Hey ErWenn and Discoveria, We could try either of these options. Would you be interested in a test week using an alternative voting sytem? Let me know ~ James (james@verbotomy.com)