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DEFINITION: n. A chosen mating partner who is not well-accepted by one's parents. v. To fight with one's parents over the selection of a suitable mate.
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Conalien
Created by: m1carren
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Her dad freaked out when he found out she was in love with a conalien.
Etymology: con: with Alien: of another
Romanticlate
Created by: myrrh
Pronunciation: (n;) row-MAN-tih-clut (v;) row-MAN-tih-clayt
Sentence: (n;) Jenny had found the perfect man, but he turned out to be a romanticlate. (v;) Robert and his parents screamed and romanticlated for hours that night.
Etymology: Partially derived from the word "romance;" barely any etymology otherwise.
Unsuitorble
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: un-SOO-tur-bull
Sentence: Rhys's poor hygiene standards and general gormlessness made him an unsuitorble, according to Phoebe's parents.
Etymology: unsuitable (not fit for purpose) + suitor (potential mate)
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COMMENTS:
Perfect! You've got my vote. - hyperborean, 2012-10-18: 12:23:00
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Objectimate
Created by: sanssouci
Pronunciation: Ob ject tee mate
Sentence: It didn't matter if I was dating a teacher or a toilet cleaner my parents would always objectimate anybody new in my life.
Etymology: Object + mate = Objectimate Object, to express or feel disapproval, dislike, or distaste; be averse. Mate, partner, husband or wife; spouse.
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COMMENTS:
checkmate...great word! - Nosila, 2010-01-15: 23:32:00
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Gallfriend
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: gawl-FREND
Sentence: Kevin's gallfriend's parents thought he was tall, dark and loathsome and called him aboyminable, but that was nothing compared to how we thought of her. We dreaded her malaproposing and becoming his offiancé.
Etymology: gall (vex or irritate) + girlfriend
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COMMENTS:
Stick him on Broadway; he could be an aboyminable showman. - Clayton, 2007-06-22: 04:41:00
Or at the moulin rouge, he could be a gaulfriend - galwaywegian, 2007-06-22: 05:08:00
Who knows? He might even play Radio City Music Gall. - Clayton, 2007-06-22: 09:59:00
maybe he's a time lord from Gallifrey - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-22: 12:11:00
He's not a friend of yours is he Gallwaywegian? - petaj, 2007-06-22: 22:37:00
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Progenitorturer
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: proh-jen-i-TAWR-cher-uhr
Sentence: Kate brought the progenitorturer home again for Thanksgiving. It wouldn't have been so bad, except that he managed to convince Grandma to give him a lap dance during grace. And that wouldn't have been so terrible, were it not for the cranberry sauce he'd smeared on his stomach. And that wouldn't have been so horrible, aside from the fact that...
Etymology: progenitor + torturer
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COMMENTS:
he gargled with the wine and snorted the salt. He also... - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-22: 10:32:00
blew his nose on the host's napkin... - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-22: 10:46:00
and then he quoted the French Guard from The holy Grail and said 'I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!' At that outburst.... - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-22: 13:11:00
Kate realized she had to do something quick to stop his further indescretions. She abruptly rose from the table, scurried over to the progenitorturer, and stuffed the snotty napkin in his... - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-22: 14:00:00
inverted third nipple - bubbos, 2007-06-22: 15:25:00
which caused him to scream in pain. He then took the turkey carcass and hurled it at... - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-22: 15:45:00
Kate's grandma, who adeptly ducked the flying featherless fowl, and caused it to go careening across the room, knocking over the glass that held Grandpa's spare teeth in the process, which caused Grandpa to exclaim... - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-22: 16:50:00
"I need my Viagra!," which confused everyone, including old widow Jones, who promptly removed her inhaler from her purse and began attempting CPR on the struggling cat, who was really a secret agent working for... - Clayton, 2007-06-22: 18:36:00
CHAOS! The boyfiend jumped up and yelled "Let's wrestlemateia!", at which point ... - Stevenson0, 2007-06-22: 18:46:00
Grandpa chimed in and said, "Well, I may be an old toothless impotent bugger, but I'm game!" Grandpa sprung, as fast as a grandpa can spring, to his feet and lunged at... - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-22: 18:56:00
the mutilated turkey, which old Widow Jones was now attempting to revive with electric shocks from her taser, which she had received as a gift from... - Clayton, 2007-06-22: 19:06:00
President Bush, who thought that all seniors should be equipped with semi-automatic weapons, but settled for tasers. While trying to resuscitate the mass of meat and bones, Widow Jones suddenly realized the phallic qualities of "stuffing the turkey", and turned her attentions to Grandpa. Unfortunately, she had forgotten her K-Why Jelly. Grandpa wasn't in the mood anyway, as he had just ... - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-22: 19:36:00
President Bush, who thought that all seniors should be equipped with semi-automatic weapons, but settled for tasers. While trying to resuscitate the mass of meat and bones, Widow Jones suddenly realized the phallic qualities of "stuffing the turkey", and turned her attentions to Grandpa. Unfortunately, she had forgotten her K-Why Jelly. Grandpa wasn't in the mood anyway, as he had just ... - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-22: 19:49:00
President Bush, who thought that all seniors should be equipped with semi-automatic weapons, but settled for tasers. While trying to resuscitate the mass of meat and bones, Widow Jones suddenly realized the phallic qualities of "stuffing the turkey", and turned her attentions to Grandpa. Unfortunately, she had forgotten her K-Why Jelly. Grandpa wasn't in the mood anyway, as he had just ... - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-22: 19:49:00
the mutilated turkey, which old Widow Jones was now attempting to revive with electric shocks from her taser, which she had received as a gift from... - Clayton, 2007-06-22: 20:04:00
James, who was trying to figure out why multiple posts happen. He was stumped. But Grampa quickly realized that it was all because... - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-22: 20:12:00
why read something once when reading it 3 times is so much better. But to get back to why Grandpa wasn't in the mood, it was because he had landed in a bowl of apple jelly and assumed it was Grandma. Now it was time for dessert and... - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-22: 20:41:00
SUDDENLY - Garrison Sergeant Major Davis kicked in the front door and exclaimed, "What in Heaven's name have you done to my turkey?!" Apparently, there'd been so mix-up at the grocery store, when Mrs. Peterson, the local notary, had stumbled upon what she believed to be an indispensable clue as to the identity of the pharmacy technician counterspy responsible for stealing Grandpa's hormones from the bakery, but then she remembered that an elderly woman in the photo department had given her a picture of a cat with a hospital wristband engaged in some sort of illicit act with a gooseberry cobbler from the deli. A cobbler that may in fact contain Grandpa's missing pharmaceuticals, which upon its serving would... - Clayton, 2007-06-22: 21:22:00
render the entire company with explosive diarrhoea and projectile vomiting. In the chaos that followed Grandpa mistook the remaining cranberry sauce for Grandma's k-why jelly due to his extreme colour blindness. He immediate scooped up a handful and ... - petaj, 2007-06-22: 22:50:00
went to work on his treatise concerning time warps, prehistoric sharks, and the double negation principle, but his plan was cut short as a dozen pineapples fell on his head, knocking him unconscious and prompting old widow Jones to turn to Garrison Sergeant Major Davis, who had begun to strangle the cat, and say: - Clayton, 2007-06-22: 23:19:00
"I can smell something burning, Sar'major Davis, you really must desist from spreading your wedding tackle with coconut oil and sunbaking. You'll come to a nasty end! and it sets a worrisome example for the young uns." Just then Grandpa came to muttering about pineapples at twice the speed of light, being relatively generally unified and not supporting string theory at all. "Eureka" he announced to the assembly who were still clutching their guts and trying to avoid slipping in what they had just voided. "Kate you must not marry this progenitorturer, until he returns triumphant from a quest. He must prove himself worthy by ..." - petaj, 2007-06-23: 00:31:00
gathering together all the verbotomists in a steel lined cell and mind melding their idiosyncrasies into one superhuman nurosies.. thus - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-23: 00:47:00
we must figure how to get them altogether. One way is to have a transitive verb, intransitive verb ,proper noun, common noun, adjective and adverb contest. James! Inform them of the contest. They will come. James informed them all by e-mail on the 23rd of June 2007 and... - Stevenson0, 2007-06-23: 01:20:00
sit back and watch the fireworks. Only then shall the turkey, the cat, Kate, her progenitorturer, Grandma, Grandpa, old widow Jones, Garrison Sergeant Major Davis, Mrs. Peterson the notary, and the rest of the unnamed characters in this story, who we will assume also includes a disgruntled Ma and a dipsomaniac Pa, as well as a few aunts, uncles, and cousins, truly be free. The end. We hope. - Clayton, 2007-06-23: 02:56:00
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Ilsentimate
Created by: AlyssaluvsBTR12
Pronunciation: il-sēnt-i-mātĕ
Sentence: The father felt very ilsentimate about his daughter's boyfriend.
Etymology: Il-Bad Sent-to feel, think Mate- partner
Rebelationship
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: re buhl LAY shun ship
Sentence: When I was a teenager, I had one rebelationship after another just to bug my father.
Etymology: rebel: to defy an authority + relationship: an association between two or more things
Mallector
Created by: folieadork2
Pronunciation: \mal-ek-tor\
Sentence: Her parents believed her choice of a partner was a mallector due to his poor manners and lack of dignified clothing.
Etymology: mal: bad; lect: to choose; -or: one who does
Comments:
Today's definition is inspired by Robert J. Sawyer's Neanderthal trilogy, Hominids, Humans and Hybrids. (We couldn't go through the whole RJS week without mentioning Neanderthals!) It's a story of two parallel worlds -- a human one and a Neanderthal one. The story pivots around the romantic tension between a female human and male Neanderthal. How about that for spicing up the gene pool? And I wonder what their parents would think? Thanks to Rob for the great story, and the inspiration. ~ James