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DEFINITION: v. To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats. n. A kind and gentle threat.
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Petthreat
Created by: Carlyumz
Pronunciation: Pet-fret
Sentence: When hiring a new employee i find it best to issue petthreats to break their spirits.
Etymology: Petty + threat
Intiminag
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /in-'ti-m&-"nag/
Sentence: Aunt Petunia never figured out that her nephews just didn't enjoy brussel sprouts the way she did, and so her threats to not cook any came across more as intiminagging.
Etymology: from intimidate + nag
Fauxerce
Created by: DarthWader
Pronunciation: foh ers
Sentence: In exasperation, Nancy began to fauxerce her children, "If you don't start picking up those toys by the count of three, I'm selling your bodies to research. One... Two... Three... Harry! Get the Escalade!"
Etymology: faux (fake) + coerce (persuade by using force or threats)
Wetnoodle
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: wet-noodle
Sentence: Jane was reluctant at first, but I wetnoodled her into doing my will.
Etymology: From the phrase "10 lashes with a wet noodle."
Threativational
Created by: microwavedboy
Pronunciation: Threat-i-va-shun-al
Sentence: My mother and her endless threativational speeches kept my room, heart, and mind clean.
Etymology: I really can foresee threativational posters on people's cubicle walls in the future.
Malivate
Created by: TheGentleSherpa
Pronunciation: Mal-I-Vate
Sentence: Last sunday, the priest gave one of the most malivational sermons I'd ever heard.
Etymology:
Amenaze
Created by: polarpanda
Pronunciation: ah-meh-naze
Sentence: I'd like to thank The Academy, of course, but also my mother; without her amenazing I never could have completed the screenplay for "I Cleaned My Desk, but Santa Never Came."
Etymology: From Spanish amenazar "to threaten" and English amaze.
Bitterpilling
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: Bit-ter-pill-ing
Sentence: I know I should wash my hand before diner, but my mom's bitterpilling about "to bed with no desert" is really unfair.
Etymology: "To swallow bitter pill"; having to do something unpleasant for one's own good.
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COMMENTS:
good one! - wordmeister, 2006-12-19: 09:37:00
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Portentuate
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Please portentuate me!
Etymology:
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