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DEFINITION: Something, or someone, that appears to be warm and fuzzy but is, when you get close, sharp and prickly.
Verboticisms
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Foolfur
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: FOOL-fur
Sentence: Alex's trip across country meant many agonising nights under foolfur blankets in seedy backwater motels.
Etymology: fool + faux fur
Prictonitesymob
Created by: xxbri
Pronunciation: Prick-toe-night-sim-mob
Sentence: Karen leaned in to the fuzzy creatures and was greeted with a prictonitesymob
Etymology: Karen thought procupines were kittens and she leaned in to cuddle them, she was taken by surprise
Sharpfuzlic
Created by: FreakinDuh
Pronunciation: Sharp-fuzz-lick
Sentence: "That's so sharpfuzlic!" A woman said after sitting on a pointy bush she thought was grass.
Etymology: Sharp + Fuzz
Cuddledagger
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: CU dul DA gur
Sentence: That little cuddledagger bit me!
Etymology: from "cuddle," something you want to hug and "dagger" a hidden pointy weapon
Obscazzard
Created by: frostycharlie69
Pronunciation: ob-SCAZ-ard
Sentence: That blasted obscazzard just pricked me! I wasn't expecting that!
Etymology: From "Obscure" and "Hazard"
Canditoxifer
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: can-dee-TOKS-ee-fer
Sentence: Roxy's fixed botoxy beam never waned,always gleaming warm and fuzzy. But beneath that manufactured mien lurked more malice than mellow. She was a canditoxifer: in look, glowing warm and fuzzy; of tongue, poisonous and arrow sharp.
Etymology: Based on, and a blending of the words, Candy (Fr):crystallized sugar; Cand,-e,(L):glowing warmly; Tox,-ic,(L):poison; Tox,-euma,(G):arrow, and Fer,(L):agent,doer.
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COMMENTS:
Wow - what a sentence!! I wish I had more votes - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-31: 16:54:00
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Barbdeydoll
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: barb/dee/doll
Sentence: She might look like a model but she's really a barbdeydoll
Etymology: barbie doll + barbed wire
Brillobunny
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Bril-oh-buhn-ee
Sentence: Samantha hadn't shaved her legs in nearly a week, which caused trouble when Ollie decided to play a little footsie on the loveseat and then got barbed and shredded like he'd just been leg-humped by a brillobunny.
Etymology: Brillo (scouring pad) + bunny (cutie-wootie furry animal)
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COMMENTS:
Your sentence is hilarious! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-31: 07:57:00
I agree with purple but might add it's hilhairious - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-31: 12:00:00
This is one rabbit I wouldn't like to pull out of a hat! Good word & sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-07-31: 18:34:00
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Pugsbunny
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rhymes with Bugs Bunny
Sentence: Geraldine was the office pugsbunny. She looked like that old stereotype of a kindly librarian, but underneath that cardiganned, bunned, spectacled exterior, she had a heart of steel and never pulled her punches.
Etymology: pug (short for pugilist) + bunny (sl. rabbit) + Bugs Bunny (smart alec rabbit cartoon character)
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COMMENTS:
love it! - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-31: 12:01:00
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Shreddybear
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: shreddy/bare
Sentence: To prepare their child for the cruel world they gave him a shreddybear which bit him every time he cuddled it
Etymology: shred + teddy bear
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COMMENTS:
Tough love! And tell me, did the child grow up to be a money lender - and put "the bite" on others? Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-07-31: 18:18:00
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