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DEFINITION: v. To compensate for lack of love, attention and/or sexual favors by buying things, lots of things. n. An object purchased to compensate for sexual dawdling.
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Phallacy
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: PHALLic+fallACY
Sentence: His purchasing tools was just a phallacy, since he already had the only tool he needed for the job, but lacked the experience in using it.
Etymology: PHALLic+fallACY
Foodiddle
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: foo-did-le
Sentence: After 17 and half hours of abstinence, Seymour was about ready to jump out of his pants, so rather than attacking his boss – for some bizarre reason she was getting more and more attractive by the second – he went downstairs fooddidled himself with brand new cravat. And as the afternoon wore on, he simply tightened the loop around his neck whenever the urge returned. Sadly none of his coworkers noticed, until it was too late...
Etymology: fool ( or faux) + diddle
Sublimitlessmation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sub/limit/less/may/shun
Sentence: To take his mind off his on again off again relationship Sam resorted to sublimitlessmation and maxed out four credit cards in the process.
Etymology: sublimation (divert the energy of a primitve impulse) + limitless
Sexersatz
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sex-er-sats
Sentence: Jill wondered why Jack was converting their den into a gym to put all his sexersatz equipment. Everytime he went to the mall he was buying more weights.
Etymology: sex: (tee-hee)+ exercise: some men will use exercise as a way to channel their tensions and frustrations + ersatz: an inferior substitute
Celibaspree
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /SEL-uh-buh-spree/
Sentence: Donald had now been married for six years — the 'honeymoon' period was long over — and his wife no longer looked for excuses to spend time with him; quite the opposite, in fact. Having little else to occupy his attention, he spent most of his spare time in the garage restoring his old Mustang. Once he got into it, he found all sorts of extra parts, tools and accessories he could buy for the car. Donald went on a celibaspree, buying new spoilers, chrome valve covers, and new seats for Rose's birthday... Rose was the name of Donald's Mustang, not his wife, (he'd been so busy with the car, he'd forgotten his wife's birthday this year).
Etymology: Celibacy - abstention from sexual relations (from L. cælibatus "state of being unmarried") + Spree - a period, spell, or bout of indulgence; e.g. a shopping spree (alteration of Fr. esprit "lively")
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:49:00
Excellent. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:37:00
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Buysexual
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bīˈsek sh oōəl
Sentence: People say that things change when the ring goes on. If bedroom activities were curtailed after the nuptials, they became stagnant after the kids arrived. Kelly found himself becoming buysexual, one day shopping for things for her to garner her favor, the next shopping for himself, to compensate for his sense of inadequacy. For him, it has to be a cash purchase. Somehow, the use of plastic is never as satisfying as the real thing.
Etymology: buy (obtain in exchange for payment) + sexual (relating to the instincts, physiological processes, and activities connected with physical attraction or intimate physical contact between individuals) a play off of bisexual (having characteristics of both sexes)
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COMMENTS:
It's a good buyword! - Nosila, 2009-07-23: 19:28:00
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Mallcontent
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mall con tent
Sentence: When Cyrus found himself feeling the everydayness of marriage, he would head out for a day of retail therapy to become a true mallcontent.
Etymology: Mall (shopping Mecca) & Content (Happy) & WorPlay on Malcontent (a person who is discontented)
Comspendsation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kom-spend-sey-shuhn
Sentence: Ron is having trouble adjusting to the fact that his wife earns far more than he does. He is also is not happy with how much time she spends on work and not him. His comspendsation might just solve this little dilemma by sending them into bankruptcy or divorce court.
Etymology: compensation (a mechanism by which an individual attempts to make up for some real or imagined deficiency of personality or behavior by developing or stressing another aspect of the personality or by substituting a different form of behavior) + spend (to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of money, wealth, resources, etc.)
Diversexion
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: DIE-ver-secs-shun
Sentence: Duane's vigorous game of diversexion buying power tools, guns, weight sets, a motorcycle and other big boys toys was a thinly veiled attempt to conceal his concern over his poor performance in and waning interest for romantic activities.
Etymology: Blend of 'diversion' and 'sex'
Sexstitute
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: sex/sti/toot
Sentence: When Joe and Jenny were having an extended fight and not talking to each other, Joe would sexstitute with the purchase of many big ticket items.
Etymology: SEXSTITUTE - verb - from SEX + SUBSTITUTE
Comments:
Today's definition is inspired by the scene in Sex and the City where a sex-starved Samantha fills her Mercedes with boxes from Gucci ~ James
- 2008-06-05: 15:25:00
Ahaha - I just read this after I created my word...seems like we're both on the same thought track!!!!
- 2008-06-05: 17:30:00
Yes -- is it genetic?? Great word!