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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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Consumerate
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: con-syoo-mer-8
Sentence: Although Gerard and Bernadette had never had sex, they had consumerated their union by having a spending spree on their honeymoon.
Etymology: consumate + consumer
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COMMENTS:
simple but very good - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:50:00
Excellent...very funny! - Mustang, 2008-06-05: 18:37:00
Hope they don't start shopping around?? good word and funny. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:40:00
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Sexumall
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: seks u mal
Sentence: When newlywed Harry feels he is not getting enough "attention" at home, he usually goes for some sexumall therapy. He thinks the term for doing without sex is sellibate.
Etymology: Sexual (having or involving sex) & Mall (modern marketplace)
Weddedbling
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: |wɛdɛdblɪŋ|
Sentence: The absence of satisfactory relations lead Mary to develop a mild to severe case of weddedbling.
Etymology: A divorcing of wedded bliss and subsequent uniting of wedded bling. Wedded: A legal agreement between couples to ignore each other. Bling: Items of consumer fancy, usually tacky/second rate/imitation in origin.
Shopualgratification
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: shop u awl gra ti fi cay shun
Sentence: Yesterday it was her turn. He bought her two dozen long stems! 'That should buy me some time,' he thought. He felt shopuallygratified again with today's purchases...power tools, ahhhh!
Etymology: From sexual gratification and to shop.
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COMMENTS:
shop till you drop... - Nosila, 2009-07-23: 19:28:00
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Shopanofrolic
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Shopp-an-o-frolik
Sentence: Having been married for several years, Carol's sex life was virtually non - existent, She turned into a shopanofrolic to compensate. She would buy expensive items on her credit cards then got a headache when the statement came in, so it had the same effect in the end anyway!!
Etymology: Shop (to purchase items) + Frolic (to behave in a 'playful' manner) = Shopanofrolic
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:52:00
very entertaining sentence. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:48:00
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Masterbysion
Created by: pungineer
Pronunciation: master-buy-shun
Sentence: Poor Steve had been in a fulfilling heterosexual relationship for so long his only sexual outlet was popping down to his local hardware megastore for some much needed masterbysion in the extendable tool aisle
Etymology: i'll let you all rack your brains to figure this one out...
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COMMENTS:
masterfull - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:48:00
He might have been looking for a lathe? - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:45:00
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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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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
Dotcompensate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dot com pen sate
Sentence: Eddie lived a hermitic existance in a basement bedroom in his parents' house. He had no life other than that lived through his best friend, his computer. He called her Della, because she was a Dell, the romantic fool. Everyday he showered her with things he bought for her on e-bay and amazon and every imagineable shopping website. A fancy mousepad here, a scanner there, software programs to last her a lifetime. In other words, he dotcompensated for the fact that she was the only female who responded to him. Oh sure, sometimes she would freeze up if he had spoken harshly to her or she'd need her hard drive tweaked. To show his affection, he would go straight to a new site and order her something nice to make her happy. Yes, Eddie was one lonely geek, who's mother ever dispared of becoming a granny!
Etymology: dot.com (A company whose business is based around a website) & compensate (adjust or make up for;make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating;the act of furnishing an equivalent thing in the place of another)
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COMMENTS:
love it! - galwaywegian, 2008-06-05: 05:35:00
excellent around. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:42:00
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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!