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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
Verboticisms
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Sexappall
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: seks-uh-pall
Sentence: Over time, Sue realized that Bob had developed sexappall; not only did he pass gas in public, he loudly rated his emissions on a scale of 1 to 10.
Etymology: sex appeal, appall
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COMMENTS:
maybe that explains the wilted flowers - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 13:22:00
Very likely. Who would want a fartner with such a terrible characteristink? - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 14:43:00
You'd better be careful purple - this infiltration of verbospeak may require a verbotomy lobotomy - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 15:40:00
Lingosuction? OHNOOOOOOOOOO!!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 17:27:00
this is getting wordiculous...absword even - rikboyee, 2007-02-15: 19:31:00
(Methinks rikboyee needs lingosuction more than I.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 19:42:00
very funny! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 21:11:00
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Relationslip
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: ree/lay/shun/slip
Sentence: Playing air guitar every time he said something funny was cute at first but turned into a giant relationslip
Etymology: relationship + slip
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COMMENTS:
This is good and goofy! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 17:13:00
thanks wordmeister - porsche, 2007-02-16: 09:38:00
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Proclirritation
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: pro-clear-rit-ta-shun
Sentence: His proclirritation to fart without excusing himself used to be cute to her, but now it was just an annoyance.
Etymology: proclivity + irritation
Hateabit
Created by: megmehtab
Pronunciation: heɪt ˈhæbɪt
Sentence: I am not going to bother you with my hateabit anymore.
Etymology: Taken from simple english; hate + habit = hateabit A habit you dislike now.
Nasdi
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: nes-di
Sentence: you never take a shower, you'r a nasdi
Etymology: nasty en dirty
Habituex
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Ha - bit - u - x
Sentence: Tony's crotch scratching forced Amber to make him a habituex.
Etymology: Habit - trait, often annoying u - your trait ex - previous girl/boyfriend, spouse
Pignobility
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: pig/no/bil/it/ee
Sentence: His pattern of pignobility left her with a fetid feeling that their relationship would not survive a week.
Etymology: pig (metaphor for dirty) + ignobility (offensive behavior)
Captainquirk
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: cap/tayn/kwirk
Sentence: Everything was going so well until he pulled a captainquirk over and over and over - time to beam me out Scotty
Etymology: Captain Kirk + quirk
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COMMENTS:
Funny!! I always felt the captain was a bit quirky. - Stevenson0, 2007-02-15: 11:18:00
Quirky - yes - but regular - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 12:12:00
"I'm...getting the feeling...that..I...could be annoying...you" - Alchemist, 2007-02-15: 22:40:00
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Irritrait
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ear-ee-trayt
Sentence: his babytalk was the irritrait that drove a wedge between them
Etymology: irritate, trait
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COMMENTS:
This perfectly describes the actions of the guy who sits in front of me who argues to an unseen somethingorother all day; a very annoying irritrait. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 18:56:00
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Ewsik
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: EEeeeeeeewwwwww SICK!
Sentence: Julie's ewsik has gotten to the point that every time she clears her throat I wanna grab her by the hair and smash her face in. "I think it's cute." You would. She's all yours.
Etymology: My xgf used to say eww sick all the time.
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COMMENTS:
ew rock! - Nosila, 2009-09-10: 01:50:00
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Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.