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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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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
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.
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
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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Hoarderculturalist
Created by: ampruteanu
Pronunciation: Whore-duhr-cuhl-choo-ruh-list
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Sorry, didn't understand fully. Thought this was referring to a person who compensates for lack of love, attention, by buying things. - ampruteanu, 2010-08-05: 07:58:00
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Buysexual
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bīsekshoōəl
Sentence: Now that they are married Jason's wife seems quite a bit less interested in intimate time. This is how Jason discovered that he is a buysexual. The only thing overheated in this relationship is their credit account.
Etymology: buy (obtain in exchange for payment) + sexual (activities connected with physical attraction or intimate physical contact between individuals)
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COMMENTS:
The LGBT society just got bigger - scrabbelicious, 2012-01-09: 11:43:00
The LGBT society just got bigger - scrabbelicious, 2012-01-09: 11:44:00
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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
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.)
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)
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!