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DEFINITION: v., To pretend that you like something that you don't, in hopes that someone else will like your pretensions. n., A person who doesn't like what they actually like, and pretends to like what other people like.
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Sycophabricate
Created by: bayview5377
Pronunciation: sik-oh-FAB-ri-cate (v) or sik-oh-FAB-ri-kit (n)
Sentence: I wanted the cute redhead to like me so when she told me she was a Steelers fan I had to sycophabricate my response. I want to be a sophisticate but what I did makes me a sycophabricate.
Etymology: From the words "sycophant", meaning a self-serving servile flatterer, and "fabricate", meaning to make up something untrue.
Feigngain
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fayn gayn
Sentence: Trevor's feigngain was pretending to be a vegetarian to impress Christy, when he really was a meat-for-every-meal kind of guy.
Etymology: feign (to pretend) & gain (to benefit from something)
Meemick
Created by: QuantumMechanic
Pronunciation: mee' mik
Sentence: He was a such a meemick, he ate one of my cucumber muffin sushi rice balls covered in honey.
Etymology: mee (
Canuluvmeleon
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: Can you love me leon
Sentence: Tim couldn't understand why none of the girls at the gym would date him, he did all the exercises they loved to do.. yoga, bust strengthening, petite self defense... he was the saddest of all the canuluvmeleons.
Etymology: Can you love me? - Chameleon
Pretrender
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: prĭ-trěnd'-ər
Sentence: In private, Robert admittedly felt somewhat chisheepish about the gothic clothes and body piercings he'd endured since he met Lorraine, and realized that he'd become a pretrender, one of those poseur stylemmings that he had always despised.
Etymology: pretender - One who simulates, pretends, or alleges falsely; a hypocrite (from Latin, praetendere - "to stretch forth") + trend - Current style; vogue (Old English, trendan - "to turn, or revolve")
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COMMENTS:
They call me the great pretrender... - hendrixius, 2007-11-28: 16:13:00
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-28: 17:50:00
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Fauxllower
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: fow-lower
Sentence: Humphrey was a definitely a fauxllower, espousing views that he didn't really possess, just to fit in. But there was no way he could be considered a feignatic.
Etymology: faux + follower
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COMMENTS:
LOL! Good one! - TiaJay, 2007-11-28: 05:01:00
a tour de fauxrse! - galwaywegian, 2007-11-28: 05:55:00
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Glibogusity
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Gli-BOH-guhs-EE-tee
Sentence: With Roxie following a diet consisting only of wheat grass, fruit and mineral water, Bob cunningly padulated with glibogusity its benefits, while surreptitiously breakfasting on steak, sausages and chips - organic, of course - at Padoulis' "Parthenon" Cafe.
Etymology: GLIB: readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers & BOGUS: not genuine; counterfeit; spurious; sham; shallow; and ITY: state, condition
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COMMENTS:
Cute. Fun to say. - Mustang, 2008-10-24: 07:46:00
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Vieweraccordiss
Created by: TiaJay
Pronunciation: view-er-a-cor-diss
Sentence: She succumbed to vieweraccordiss when politely telling her co-worker she "adored" her new shoes.
Etymology: view= point of view / viewer= person / accord= agreeing / diss= as in 'dissing' that point of view and really not agreeing
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COMMENTS:
I think I got my v.intr. mixed up --? LOL - TiaJay, 2007-11-28: 05:02:00
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Fakeatron
Created by: Midedra
Pronunciation: Fake - a - tron
Sentence: God, he's such a fakeatron!
Etymology:
Sociophony
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: SO-see-oh-fone-ee
Sentence: Always looking for opportunities to impress dates, employers and influential people, Gilbert has become an absolutely shameless sociophony who would do or say anything be popular.
Etymology: Blend of 'social' and 'phony'
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang and remistram. Thank you Mustang and remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James