Verboticisms

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: bee-rate-mate

Sentence: At their very own wedding why did she still continue to beratemate him?

Etymology: berate (as in scold) + mate (partner)

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Created by: dpetty12210

Pronunciation: re-lash-and-whip

Sentence: My girl relashandwhiped me after I told her friend that we were a thing!!

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: PART-nurr-slip-LASH

Sentence: Loosened by liquor, he let the truth slip- The way he envisioned their relationship. The stink-eye she gave him, Her teeth they did gnash, As she doled out a bone-chilling PARTNERSLIPLASH!

Etymology: PARTNER+SLIP+LASH=PARTNERSLIPLASH......PARTNER: a person with whom one shares an intimate relationship, one member of a couple; Middle English partener, alteration of parcener, from Anglo-French, coparcener.....SLIP: to become uttered through inadvertence, to escape from memory or consciousness; Middle English slippen, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; akin to Middle High German slipfen to slide, Old High German slīfan to smooth, and perhaps to Greek olibros slippery.....LASH: to make a verbal attack or retort, to thrash or beat violently, to assail with stinging words; Middle English.

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COMMENTS:

nice little ditty - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-28: 13:35:00

Poetic justice! - Nosila, 2009-04-28: 14:44:00

Partnersliplash is a great word, Manx! - splendiction, 2009-04-28: 22:17:00

Great word there Metro ~ Love your sentence! Hope you're doing well :) Have great weekend! - abrakadeborah, 2009-05-02: 05:24:00

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Created by: andrewmcshea

Pronunciation: dee-fekt-luv

Sentence: Martha yelled at Tom for the defectlovely false rumors he had spread about their sexual relationship.

Etymology: Defective (Incorrect); Love (Relationship)

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COMMENTS:

lovin dis jaint - andrewmcshea, 2012-04-16: 15:35:00

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: don't call me baby

Sentence: “Dontcallmebaby ANYMORE!" she later scoffed. Earlier at dinner he had introduced her to an old friend as his “Baby”. Their age difference was becoming a problem.

Etymology: There is a popular song now with this phrase: "Don't call me baby, anymore!", as a way of denouncing a relationship.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: huz band

Sentence: When Melinda discovered that her new live-in, Jeff, was telling everyone that she was now his "Old Lady", she husbanned him from using the term!

Etymology: Husband (male spouse) & Banned (forbidden, not allowed)

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Created by: Humphries

Pronunciation: ov-er-luv-ly-con-fid-en-t

Sentence: When you are overlovelyconfident you overstep your bounds in a relationship, like with nicknames.

Etymology: over as in to much love as in love confident as in believing in ones self

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Created by: 589195

Pronunciation: oor-grave-er

Sentence: When I mentioned to my friend that me and my girlfriend were getting really close, she orgravered me in a way I won't soon forget.

Etymology: Or- to speak Grav- heavy ver-true

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: trash-la-ment

Sentence: Miriam's response to Clarence's criticism of her participation in their romance was nothing short of a harsh trashlament covering a multitude of Clarence's recent remarks.

Etymology: Trash: v. Criticize, rebuke, demean and Lament; v. to express sorrow, regret, or unhappiness about something

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Created by: MandeepSandhu

Pronunciation: (poss- nope)

Sentence: you are not allowed to possnope and tell other people that we are dating.

Etymology: poss- to be able, have power

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