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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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Conerapy
Created by: kulekrizpy
Pronunciation: con-air-ap-y
Sentence: Tony had been feeling neglected by his girlfriend lately, and had the urge to use conerapy.
Etymology: "con" from the word consume (to use or buy) and "erapy" from the word therapy (treatment of an illness or disability). Made to sound similar to compensate (make up for).
Diversexion
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: die - ver - sex - shun
Sentence: Arnold'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
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:48:00
Good one, Mustang - Nosila, 2008-06-05: 19:31:00
Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:41:00
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Consumorgasm
Created by: green
Pronunciation: consume orgasm
Sentence: Stacey stroked the Gucci bag lovingly. As she reached for her credit card she experienced an intense consumorgasm that left her panting for more. She was only held back from achieving multiple consumorgasms when her credit maxed out. Alas, she could not purchase any more Gucci purses.
Etymology: consumer orgasm
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.
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
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)
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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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
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! - Mustang, 2008-06-05: 18:36:00
good one - Nosila, 2008-06-05: 19:35:00
good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-05: 23:47:00
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Purchosexual
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: pur-cho-SEK-shoo-uhl
Sentence: Roxie never had the slightest intention of consummating her marriage to Bob. After all, think of the danger: children are expensive, leaving little for spend-ups on yourself. Initially, naturally, Bob raised objections to the idea, but gradually she made him see the 'wisdom of her ways. What's more realizing that he had plenty of money to indulge himself with, he began splurging with a red hot passion in procuring the most exotic screws. Still, at times, he did feel that he had been toolshedded; though life was certainly not without its ups and downs as a purchosexual.
Etymology: PURCH of purchase & SEXUAL, as in metrosexual, retrosexual, fauxmosexual. Cognate:purchosexuality
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COMMENTS:
love the sound of this and a great funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-05: 15:50:00
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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!