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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
Exootycall
Created by: aj3131
Pronunciation: Ex-oot-e-call
Sentence: Time for an exootycall with Meghan.
Etymology: Ex+(b)ooty call
Olsetose
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: ol-sa-dose
Sentence: Olsetose, number one in the years.....
Etymology: OLd SEx TO SEe
Postpartemaffection
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: post-part-umm-uh-fek-shun
Sentence: Does she care that her postpartemaffection is ruining her current relationship? No, he knows he'll get the same special treatment...
Etymology: from post + apart + them + affection
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COMMENTS:
It'd be better as two words, but good enough for a vote from me. - ErWenn, 2007-02-17: 08:07:00
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Postpwnd
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: post-poned
Sentence: What is it with some girls and postpwning? Don't they know that there is no reason for it, and it is just unacceptable?
Etymology: post (as in after) pwned (as in the nerdy version of owned, from a typo in, I believe, a halo game.) It means, basically, to defeat an enemy.
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.
Retrosex
Created by: RebelNovice
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "I ran into my ex last night at the bar, and one thing led to another... and we ended up back at my place for a little retrosex."
Etymology:
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
Copudetat
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kop/u/dey/ta
Sentence: John had no luck at the dance club, so decided to stop by his ex's place and try to pull off a copud'etat
Etymology: copulate + coup d'etat (to exploit)
Excalibre
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: eks-kal-uh-ber
Sentence: Jill has fond memories of the men in her life. She rates them with her unique system labeling each with an excalibre rating based on their abilities with Excalibur. Jimmy was her .22, fun to play with but not too serious. When she wants something serious she will call her .44 magnum or .50 Cal.
Etymology: ex (former) + calibre (the diameter of a cylindrical body, esp the internal diameter of a tube or the bore of a firearm) a play on Excalibur the sword of King Arthur
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)