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DEFINITION: To reject a compliment. May indicate low self-esteem, or false modesty, or even a psychopathic aversion to flattery.
Verboticisms
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Rephewsal
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ree feuu zal
Sentence: Her rephewsals caused even more jaw dropping than her entrances, leading the men to assume that she would be more at a convent than the convention.
Etymology: refusal, phew!
Fawnyawn
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: FAWN-yawn
Sentence: Alex's compliments of her choice of T-shirt and sweatpants were met only with a fawnyawn.
Etymology: fawn (to flatter) + yawn (as an expression of disdain)
Highlow
Created by: dancer002013
Pronunciation: hi-lo
Sentence: She highlows to him.
Etymology: german
Admiralienation
Created by: marnee4nothin
Pronunciation: aed'-mar-eile-nei-shon
Sentence: Coleen stoppped wearing her little black dress when she received three proposals and her admiralienation became acute.
Etymology: admiration + alienation
Complament
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: comp-lah-ment
Sentence: even as i said it, i knew she would complament my compliment
Etymology: compliment, lament
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2007-08-08: 04:23:00
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Compleject
Created by: Gionuzzo
Pronunciation: KOM plee jekt
Sentence: Jill was forced into a therapy by her friends when she complejected to all of their attemps at casual flattery by refusing to accept them.
Etymology: Compliment + Object (as in objection)
Kudojudo
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: coo-doe-jue-doe
Sentence: After telling Marcia how wonderful her new outfit looked, she could have just said "thank you." Instead, she kudojudoed the compliment by explaining how she only paid five dollars for it at the local second-hand store.
Etymology: kudos (informal for praise) + Judo (Japanese martial art used in self defense)
Dysaccoladia
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: dis-ak-ko-lay-DI-a
Sentence: Roxie didn't have low self-esteem or false modesty. She was suffering from dysaccoladia with an obsessional loathing for the obsequious; a phobia fearing fawnicators and was waging a war on wheedlers.
Etymology: From "dys" a prefix meaning "ill, abnormal, bad; "accolade" meaning "praise" in familiar speech and "ia" "condition"
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COMMENTS:
Got one of my votes. :) - Wordhewer, 2007-08-07: 05:51:00
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Disstribute
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: dibb+trib+ute
Sentence: Every time an admirer made a flattering remark, Caroline would disstribute the unfortunate guy, making him question the strength of his deodorant.
Etymology: diss (slang - insult) + tribute (compliment)
Fawnix
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: fawn-ix
Sentence: Her fawnixation caused her to fixate on his poor speech and phonics.
Etymology: fawn (to flatter) + nix (to refuse)
