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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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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"
Furguise
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: furr-g-eyes
Sentence: Upon meeting her mother he appreciated that she had many positive attributes but he wouldn't be fooled by all the delicate knitted potholders and tea cosys; he still concluded that she was a furguise.
Etymology: furry + disguise
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
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
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
Obfuscactus
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ob-fyewss-cak-tus
Sentence: i was drawn to her, feeling at last that i had found someone kind and caring, unaware that she was actually a well-known obfuscactus
Etymology: obfuscate, cactus
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like a prickly pairing. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-31: 08:03:00
Saguaro, wrong number. - Kyoti, 2007-07-31: 09:37:00
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Fraudermalent
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: fraw-derm-ah-lent
Sentence: She had a strict policy to never touch wool, or even wire-haired terriers, stating they were both fraudermalent.
Etymology: fraudulent + derma (of the skin)
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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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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Cuddleshark
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kud-dul-shark
Sentence: Her arms appeared warm and inviting and her eyes had that come-hither look, but every time he approached her, the vicious fangs of the cuddleshark were revealed.
Etymology: cuddle, cuttle shark
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COMMENTS:
Great word. Such soft savagery. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-07-31: 18:24:00
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